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Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Watto Purrunna Primary Health Care Service –Ingle Farm / Elizabeth / Port Adelaide Salary: $94,997 - $110,052 p.a.

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Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Watto Purrunna Primary Health Care Service –Ingle Farm / Elizabeth / Port Adelaide
Salary: $94,997 - $110,052 p.a. plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP2
Salary: $73,710 - $89,981 p.a. plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP1
Temporary Full-Time up to 1 October 2027

About the Role

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Children across Adelaide's northern communities deserve early, culturally safe support — and the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is looking for a Paediatric Occupational Therapist with a genuine commitment to Aboriginal health equity to help deliver it. This is a full-time, short-term contract role through to 1 October 2027, embedded within the Watto Purruna Primary Health Care team.

What You'll Be Doing

Working within a multidisciplinary primary health care setting, you will provide evidence-informed occupational therapy assessment and intervention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families across the northern Adelaide metro region.

Deliver culturally responsive paediatric OT assessments, goal-setting, and therapeutic intervention
Collaborate with Aboriginal health practitioners, allied health colleagues, and community partners to coordinate child-centred care
Contribute to service planning and improvement within the NALHN Watto Purrunna Primary Health Care framework
Maintain accurate clinical documentation in line with SA Health standards and relevant legislative requirements

What You Bring

Degree in Occupational Therapy and current AHPRA registration
Demonstrated experience in paediatric OT practice, including developmental and functional assessment
Understanding of the health and social determinants affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families
Ability to build respectful, trusting relationships with Aboriginal communities in a primary health care context
Strong communication and interpersonal skills suited to cross-cultural, team-based environments
Current SA driver's licence, as community-based travel may be required

To be eligible for this position, you must have an Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide.

NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care, as well as primary health care services with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management.

With a commitment for ongoing upgrades to our facilities and the introduction of new services, our priority is delivering exceptional health and wellbeing services that enhance the quality of life for our community.

Our 300-plus Allied Health professionals play an integral role in multidisciplinary teams delivering outstanding care to patients across our acute, subacute and hospital avoidance services.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

At NALHN, we have a strong commitment to providing a clinically interesting professional experience, with structured and supportive education and professional development, and career progression pathways.

Some feedback from current employees about working as Allied Health Professionals in NALHN includes:

“My favourite part about working in NALHN is the close working relationships we have across Allied Health to optimise patient care.”

“I feel like I’m part of a growing and developing service.”

“I love the great team dynamic and the culture of learning and support.”

NALHN provides a range of hospital (inpatient), outpatient, community and home-based services across multiple sites in Adelaide’s north and north-eastern suburbs, including Aboriginal health, mental health, and GP services.

Lyell McEwin Hospital – the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, paediatrics and outpatient services.

Modbury Hospital – a general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.

Mental Health Services – adult and older persons mental health services and statewide forensic mental health services, across hospital and community settings.

Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Primary Health Care Services – provides culturally responsive primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in-hospital and across four community sites.

Primary Health Care Services – including GP Plus sites at Elizabeth, Modbury and Gilles Plains.

What We Offer

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From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Incremental wage increases in-line with the Allied Health Professionals, Assistants and Psychologists Enterprise Agreement 2025

Access to experienced clinicians across a broad range of expertise, who are supportive of collegial sharing of skills and knowledge in different therapies and client presentations.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

In addition to this, other benefits of working as a Paediatric Occupational Therapist in NALHN include:

✓professional development opportunities. We have a well-established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and under the current enterprise agreement staff are also eligible for a Professional Development Allowance and entitled to claim reimbursement of eligible professional development expenses to allow you to continue to build upon your professional foundations

✓opportunities to participate in research. NALHN have an Allied Health Research Chair, who is able to work with clinicians and teams to support clinical research

✓regular clinical supervision, allowing you to receive individualised support, learning and development to help you achieve your career goals

DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
National Police Check (National Police Certificate) for vulnerable person-related employment screening – apply to any of the accredited bodies approved to offer a service direct to the public. Accreditation is provided by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. See our National Police Certificate accredited bodies page for links to lodge screening requests.

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 947154

Rikki Arbon

Nurse Unit Manager

Phone: (08) 8240 9623

E-mail: rikki.arbon@sa.gov.au

9 October 2026 – 11.55PM

Download File 947154 - Paediatric Occupational Therapist - AHP2 - Aboriginal Health - Role Description.pdf