Leisure & Lifestyle Assistant - Northgate House

Leisure & Lifestyle Assistant - Northgate House Job no: 948720 Work type: Part time Located in: Adelaide Metro Northern Categories: Allied and Scientific Health Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Northgate Neuro Behavioural Unit - NORTHGATE SA 5085 Salary: $67,979.00 p.a. (pro rata) plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits - AHA2 Ongoing Part-Time - 30 hours per week About the Role: At Northgate Neuro Behavioural Unit, part of the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network's Older Persons Mental Health Service, every day is an opportunity to make a genuine difference in the lives of older people living with complex dementia with BPSD. If you find meaning in connection and creativity, this part-time, ongoing role could be exactly what you're looking for. What You'll Be Doing As a Leisure & Lifestyle Assistant, you'll design and deliver meaningful recreational and lifestyle activities that support the wellbeing, independence, and dignity of residents at Northgate Neuro Behavioural Unit. Working closely with a dedicated multidisciplinary team, your day-to-day will include: Planning and facilitating individual and group activities tailored to residents' interests, abilities, and therapeutic goals Contributing to lifestyle assessments and care planning in collaboration with nursing and allied health staff Building genuine relationships with residents, families, and carers to understand what brings each person joy and purpose Maintaining accurate documentation of activity participation and resident responses in line with SA Health standards What You'll Bring A qualification in Leisure and Health, Community Services, or a related field (or equivalent experience) Experience delivering lifestyle programs in an aged care, mental health, or community setting An understanding of person-centred care and the specific needs of older people living with mental illness Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to engage people across varying levels of ability and cognition Willingness to work within SA Health's values framework and comply with relevant legislative requirements Current or ability to obtain a National Police Clearance and DCSI Aged Care Sector screening About You: This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team. About Us: 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." Our Local Health Network Sites and Services: 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. Benefits of working at NALHN: 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 Leisure & Lifestyle Assistant 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 SA Health is committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. 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