Senior Physiotherapist - Northern Adelaide Rehabilitation Service Spasticity Clinic
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In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate,
- Senior Physiotherapist - Spasticity Clinic
- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – MODBURY SA 5092
- Salary: $112,139 - $120,284 p.a. (pro rata) plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP3
- Ongoing Part-Time – 7.5 hours per fortnight
About the Role
~2 min readWe are looking for a Senior Physiotherapist to work in our multidisciplinary Spasticity Clinic based in the Specialist Ambulatory and Rehabilitation Centre (SpARC) at Modbury. The clinic operates for a full day once per fortnight on a Friday, and you will be part of a dynamic, growing and supportive team.
The Northern Adelaide Rehabilitation Service (NARS) Spasticity Clinic offers a genuinely specialised practice environment. If you bring strong neurorehabilitation expertise and want to shape meaningful outcomes for people living with spasticity, this is a role with real clinical depth.
Working within the multidisciplinary NARS Spasticity Clinic, you will deliver advanced physiotherapy assessment and treatment for adults with upper and lower limb spasticity across a range of neurological conditions. Your scope includes:
- Conducting comprehensive spasticity assessments and developing goal-directed management plans in collaboration with the treating team
- Supporting and coordinating botulinum toxin injection clinics alongside medical and nursing colleagues
- Providing clinical supervision and professional support to Allied Health Assistants within the team
- Contributing to service evaluation, quality improvement, and the ongoing development of the Spasticity Clinic model of care
- Demonstrated experience in neurological rehabilitation, with a focus on spasticity or movement disorders
- Proven ability to work within and contribute to a multidisciplinary team in a complex rehabilitation setting
- Strong clinical reasoning skills applied to goal-setting and outcome measurement in rehabilitation populations
- Experience providing supervision, mentoring, or clinical education to less experienced clinicians
- Familiarity with SA Health policies, documentation standards, and rehabilitation frameworks is highly regarded
To be eligible for this position, you must have an appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration with the Physiotherapy Board of Australia.
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
~2 min readFrom 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 Senior Physiotherapist in NALHN include:
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Check (National Police Certificate) for aged care sector 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: 952626
Office of Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care
Phone: (08) 7321 4232
30 October 2026 – 11.55PM
952626 - Senior Physiotherapist, Spasticity Clinic - ACRPC - AHP3 - Role Description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
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- Pay per year
- $112,139–$120,284 a year
- 10% above the $105,414 median for Physical Therapist jobs on Jobera (2,291 salaries).
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