• Central Adelaide Local Health Network
• Mental Health Services, Woodville
• Salary OPS2 $58,709 to $63,154 p.a. (pro rata) + Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Permanent position

Exciting career opportunity in mental health rehabilitation!

We’re looking for health professionals to join us as we open a new, state-of-the-art Inpatient Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (IMHRU) at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH).

This is your chance to be part of a new patient focussed service that prioritises recovery and the delivery of best-practice, trauma-informed care in a brand new 24-bed building. If you’re passionate about being part of a safe and connected organisation and looking for a rewarding career in mental health, apply today!

About the role

As a Carer Consultant in the IMHRU, you will play a key role in supporting families and carers of consumers. Using your lived experience as a carer of someone with significant mental health challenges, you’ll ensure families are included in the recovery journey, providing guidance, advocacy, and emotional support. Collaborating with inpatient, community, and rehabilitation services, you’ll foster a whole-systems approach that promotes connection, social inclusion, and hope for the future. In this role, you will facilitate ongoing engagement with carers, offer education and resources, and advocate for carer-inclusive practices, helping shape service delivery to ensure carer involvement is integral to consumer recovery.

For more information about the role, and essential educational/vocational qualifications that may be required, please refer to the role description.

About you

You will bring strong communication skills, lived experience as a Carer, and a commitment to ensuring carer-inclusive practices are embedded in recovery-focused care. To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Lived Experience & Understanding: Personal experience of supporting a family member with significant mental health challenges and knowledge of strategies to assist both consumer and carer recovery.
• Communication & Advocacy: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to liaise effectively between consumers, families, and service providers while maintaining professional boundaries.
• Collaboration & Teamwork: A commitment to working as part of a multidisciplinary team, ensuring that carers are included in the recovery process and their voices are heard.
• Knowledge & Resources: A broad understanding of lived experience strategies and knowledge of available community services for mental health consumers, families, and carers.

If you are ready to make a meaningful impact by supporting and advocating for carers, we encourage you to apply today!

About CALHN

At Central Adelaide (CALHN), we’re shaping the future of health through excellence in clinical care, research, and innovation. As South Australia’s largest health network, we deliver exceptional, safe and connected healthcare—for our patients, our community, and our people.

With more than 17,000 dedicated employees, every day at CALHN presents an opportunity to make a real impact—not because it’s expected, but because our values guide us to be our best. Join us and be part of a team that’s driven by a commitment to a seamless safe and connected experience for all.

Find out more about our stories, our network, and the opportunities to be part of CALHN.

Benefit of joining CALHN

At CALHN, we're dedicated to your career satisfaction and wellbeing, offering tailored benefits for healthcare professionals, including:

• Salary attractions: Flexible options for salary packaging covering living expenses, meal and entertainment allowances, and novated leasing.
• Annual leave: Enjoy paid recreation leave for essential rejuvenation each year.
• Flexible work arrangements: 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.
• Health and fitness benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to CALHN staff and their families.
• Career opportunities: Explore career growth within the SA Health system with opportunities for skill development and movement across various metropolitan and regional sites.
• Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counselling and support services are available via our Employee Assistance Program.
• Professional development: Opportunity to apply for reimbursement of eligible professional development activities, and access to dedicated leave for ongoing learning.

Join CALHN for a fulfilling career bolstered by comprehensive benefits and unwavering commitment to your success.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

CALHN is an equal opportunities employer 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, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community.

Application information:

• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and compliant Immunisation screening as indicated in the role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Please note that unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies or third parties will not be accepted for this position.

Job ref: 899346

Enquiries to:

Karol Wills , Allied Health Executive Assistant

Phone: 70871000

E-mail: [email protected]

Application Closing Date

11:55 pm Friday 27th June 2025

Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information

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