* Flinders and Upper North Local Health Network – Location Negotiable Within Region
* AHP3 | Part Time 0.5 FTE | Temporary (up to 26 December 2025)
* Base Salary Range: $104,180 - $111,746 p.a (pro rata)
* In addition to base salary, this position attracts Superannuation, Leave Loading and Salary Sacrificing Benefits (salary packaging).
Join our team and shape the future of healthcare, empowering the next generation of professionals with your passion and expertise!
About Us:
The Flinders and Upper North region offers a relaxed lifestyle, breathtaking views, endless adventures, and friendly and diverse communities. With a short commute to work, you’ll have more time in your day to spend with your family, friends, and explore the many attractions of the Flinders and Upper North region. There is access to public and private schooling, including tertiary education, making it a great place to raise a family.
You will become a part of a supportive and welcoming team and have opportunities to work in a variety of settings whilst working across both discipline-specific and multi-disciplinary teams. You’ll also have access to continuing education and development opportunities, allowing you to grow your career, all while working to improve community health outcomes and wellbeing.
About the Role:
The Allied Health Clinical Educator plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare across Flinders and Upper North Local Health Network (FUNLHN). With extensive clinical expertise and experience, this position leads allied health workforce education and the coordination of student placements across a variety of Allied Health disciplines, including occupational therapy (OT), physiotherapy (PT), social work (SW), speech pathology (SP), dietetics (DT), podiatry (POD), and orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) in rural and remote settings.
In collaboration with universities and senior clinical educators from the Rural Support Service (RSS), the Clinical Educator supports students and supervisors, delivers high-quality teaching, facilitates research, and provides valuable insights on clinical education and development. This role ensures a comprehensive, supportive learning environment for students, fostering professional growth for both students and supervisors.
As a key advisor to FUNLHN Executive and university partners, the Clinical Educator contributes to strategic workforce education and development, promoting FUNLHN as a leading, contemporary workplace. The role also takes a lead in developing and progressing key initiatives like the Student Cadetship Model, ensuring that the objectives of the Community and Allied Health Directorate are achieved with excellence and within budgetary guidelines.
This is a unique opportunity to be a driving force behind best practice education, creating a lasting impact on the future of Allied Health professionals, and making FUNLHN a rewarding and fulfilling place to live and work.
* Must hold a recognised qualification within the relevant allied health profession and be eligible for full membership of the relevant Professional Association. For those disciplines requiring Registration, all requirements must be fulfilled to achieve and maintain current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency (AHPRA).
* A higher qualification in a relevant area such as health service management, professional specialisation/clinical education will be highly regarded.
* Provide expert clinical and consultancy services across Flinders & Upper North LHN and professional networks.
* Work independently, applying advanced techniques with clinical competence and reflective practice.
* Use knowledge of LHN’s strategy, operations, and workforce to manage complex tasks.
* Advise on service development and improvements based on client needs.
* Apply advanced techniques with professional independence and expertise.
* May manage a clinical caseload or supervise staff.
Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)
* This is a part-time vacancy, working 37.5 hours per fortnight and salary will be adjusted according to actual hours worked.
* The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including 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 Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
* Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.
Application Closing Date: Friday 24th January 2025 - 11.55PM
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