* Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network, Murray Bridge
* AHP1 | Full Time Contract | Temporary (contract up to 2 years)
* Salary: $71,217 - $86,938 p.a
* Eligibility: Open to Everyone
Join Our Team as an Occupational Therapist - Grow Your Skills and Make a Real Community Impact
Make a meaningful difference by delivering person-centred occupational therapy services while enhancing your clinical expertise in a supportive, collaborative health environment. This role offers the chance to gain experience across diverse service areas and contribute to high-quality, integrated care for your local community.
About the Role:
As an Occupational Therapist, you will work under the guidance of an experienced AHP2 clinician to provide a comprehensive range of health services tailored to community needs. You will be supported to develop your clinical skills while delivering safe, effective, and evidence-informed care.
You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, including health professionals and service providers across sectors, to deliver preventative, early intervention, treatment, therapy, and evaluation services. This role provides exposure to a variety of settings - paediatrics, acute care, residential care, aged care, and community health - allowing you to build broad clinical capability and confidence in your practice.
What We're Looking For:
* Must hold a recognised qualification within the Occupational Therapy profession and be eligible for practicing membership of the relevant Professional Association.
* Deliver a broad range of established clinical services.
* Apply professional judgement with support from a senior clinician.
* Provide individual, group and health promotion services.
* Manage and prioritise own workload effectively.
About Us
The Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network, called RMCLHN for short, supports more than 70,000 people living in country South Australia in the towns and surrounds of Renmark, Paringa, Berri, Barmera, Waikerie, Loxton, Pinnaroo, Lameroo, Karoonda, Mannum, Murray Bridge, Tailem Bend, Meningie, Tintinara and Coonalpyn. Click here for more information about working for RMCLHN.
* We will provide support, both personally and professionally giving you access to a range of education and training opportunities designed to enhance your role.
* Offer flexible work arrangements to better balance work, personal life, and family commitments.
* Provide an inclusive workplace culture that values diversity, ensuring every employee feels a sense of belonging and safety.
* Offer salary sacrifice benefits, watch a short video about what salary packaging is.
* Provide Relocation Support, where applicable. More information available from SA Health Careers - Relocation support.
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Applicant Information
SA Health is committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, members of the LGBTIQA+SB community and people who live with disability and/or neurodivergence.
We are committed to making workplace adjustments to provide a positive and supportive work environment. You are encouraged to let us know if have any support or access requirements during the recruitment process and beyond to ensure you can perform at your best.
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and appropriate immunisation requirements:
* DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
* DHS National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Worker Check
* National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
* Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A
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: 930079
Enquiries
Carly Baker
Clinical Senior Occupational Therapist
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Application Closing Date
Thursday 12th March :55 PM
Attachments
930079 AHP1 Role Description
About Murray Bridge Workforce
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