• Women's and Children's Health Network, Allied Health and Aboriginal Liaison, North Adelaide (5006)

• Classification - AHP2 - Allied Health Professional L2 - $88,255to $102,240
• Employment Full time - Ongoing Permanent / Term Contract (temporary up to 30 Sep 2025)

About the Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the WCHN Children’s Audiology Service team as a Paediatric Audiologist, where you will be responsible for:

• Providing appropriate behavioural audiological assessments to determine hearing abilities in children aged 0-18 years. This will include determining hearing threshold by using age-appropriate audiological assessments, speech audiometry, middle ear evaluation and otoacoustic emissions.
• Conveying outcomes of an assessment in a sensitive and accurate manner such that the information can be utilised by and be of benefit to the individual, family and/or referrer.
• Maintaining a contemporary understanding of child development, ear health, pathology, screening and diagnostic assessments and interventions for hearing loss to maximise children’s ability to grow and develop.
• Working efficiently in a fast-paced audiology setting which experiences long waiting times.
• Maintaining positive working relationships within the department and external stakeholders.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full association membership with Audiology Australia.
• Demonstrated ability to ensure the provision of high quality, efficient and effective Paediatric Audiology services.
• Experience in working with children of all ages in Acute, Community or both clinic settings.
• Experience in the application of standard paediatric behavioural audiometric procedures, including pure-tone air-conduction and bone-conduction techniques, play audiometry, sound-field audiometry, and middle ear evaluation.
• Ability to adapt and re-prioritise according to changing clinic and client needs.
• Ability to sensitively relate to and communicate with colleagues, parents and families, children, and other members of the community from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds.

What WCHN Can Offer You

• Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.
• Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
• Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
• Free public transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital workers to and from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Note: Does not apply to network community sites.
• Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
• Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

About Us

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

• specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
• state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
• community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
• specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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Special Conditions

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

Application Instructions

You will be required to attach a 1-2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role and a current résumé/curriculum vitae prior to clicking 'Submit Application'. It is recommended to allow enough time to complete the whole application as the system times out after one hour of inactivity.

Other Important Information

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.

Want further information on applying and winning this role, go to our SA Health Careers Site for the Australian Applicant Guide or if you are an international applicant, check out the International Application Guide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Enquiries:

Henry Bell

Position: Practice Coordinator

Phone: 8161 8211

E-mail: [email protected]

Application Closing Date: 13/03/2025 – 11:55pm

Useful Links:

AHP2 - Audiologist - Role Description