Occupational Therapy - Community Aged Care - Casual Pool
SA Health
Job reference: 931870 Location: - VARIOUS - Job status: Casual Eligibility: Open to Everyone
Appointment to this position will be at either AHP1 or AHP2 classification, commensurate with the applicant's level of professional experience, demonstrated competence, and capacity to perform with increasing independence, clinical judgement, and complexity of practice as outlined in the role requirements.
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING? Join our Casual Pool within the Community Aged Care Team as an Occupational Therapist and choose your hours! As a Casual Occupational Therapist you will provide client-centred, goal-oriented care to older people within the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network as part of a multidisciplinary Community Reablement team. The role focuses on supporting older adults across clinic, home, and residential settings to maintain and improve independence, reduce functional decline, and achieve meaningful goals through evidence-based, outcome-focused interventions aligned with Commonwealth aged care programs. You will have the opportunity to work across hospital avoidance, dementia care, and healthy ageing service streams, the Occupational Therapist delivers targeted reablement interventions that address a range of complex conditions including frailty, cognitive impairment, falls risk, and chronic health issues. Operating with increasing clinical autonomy, the role also contributes to supervision, team development, and collaborative care planning to strengthen workforce capability and ensure high-quality, integrated service delivery. WHO ARE WE? The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network offers opportunities across our sites, from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda, wrapping all the way around our metropolitan areas. We pride ourselves on providing exceptional care to all our consumers, residents, their families, and community. Our mission is to ensure that you always receive the best quality, safe, consistent, collaborative care and always with kindness. We do this by maintaining exceptional levels of care at all times supported by systems and processes that assure us of quality and safety of our staff and those we serve. WHERE AND HOW YOU WILL WORK We have multiple opportunities across all of our sites, from the Barossa to the Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu Regions. WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
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WHAT WILL WE OFFER YOU IN RETURN? At BHFLHN, not only will you be working in an environment surrounded by beautiful scenery and nature we see your work here as not just as a job, but an opportunity to extend, progress or consolidate your career with us. We therefore offer you opportunities to be supported in the following ways:
WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW/WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS? Working in this environment, it is important to us that we only employ people with the upmost integrity and commitment to serving the South Australian community and its visitors to the highest possible standards. To ensure that we meet that commitment there are a few checks that you will be required to undertake. These are detailed on the Role Description, but are likely to include the following:
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION We employ people as diverse as the clients we support and the environments we work in. At BHFLHN we pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees and therefore we encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community. We continually look for ways to support and promote diversity and flexible ways of working so please let us know what interests you. NEED TO RELOCATE? Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. See what is available here: Relocation support | SA Health. Find out more about working in the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, and see what it looks like to work and live in regional Australia at: https://movetomore.com.au/ HELP IS HERE! Please refer to all the details in the Role Description below (job ref: 931870), or reach out to Adam Caruana, A/Restorative Aged Care Lead on Phone: 0435 006 336 or via E-mail: adam.caruana@sa.gov.au To find out what you need to apply, and what is required to be offered a role, please refer to the Applicant Checklist BHFLHN Applicant Checklist.pdf. Please also click here for our Australian applicant guidelines FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR NETWORK Stay connected with our Network! Follow us on LinkedIn to stay informed about exciting job opportunities and updates on us and what our employees are doing. Click here to join the conversation. DON'T HESITATE! Applications Close on 23 March 2027 at 11:55PM Eligibility: Open to Everyone 20260312 Role Description - New - AHP1 - Occupational Therapy - Community Aged Care.docx 20260312 Role Description - New - AHP2 - Occupational Therapy - Community Aged Care.docx Applications close: 23/03/2027 11:55 PM Flexibility Statement
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