Your opportunity
As a Community Reablement Lead, you'll drive and embed reablement practice across ECH, shaping how services are designed, delivered and continuously improved. Working across multidisciplinary teams, you'll provide clinical leadership, support complex care decisions, and build workforce capability in strengths-based, person-directed care.
Alongside managing a flexible caseload of clients with complex needs, you'll partner with leaders to implement service improvements, support aged care reform and Support at Home changes, and champion innovative approaches that help older people maintain independence, wellbeing and quality of life at home.
You’ll make an impact by
- Leading and embedding clinical care management and reablement practices that drive sustainable improvement.
- Providing expert clinical guidance and oversight for clients with complex or changing needs.
- Driving practice and service improvements to enhance client outcomes and service effectiveness.
- Building workforce capability through coaching, mentoring and evidence-based practice support.
- Partnering with leaders and teams to implement reforms, improve service delivery, and promote person-directed, reablement-focused care.
What you’ll bring
To succeed in this role, you’ll need the following qualifications:
- Tertiary qualification (Bachelor's degree or higher) in Allied Health.
- Current and unrestricted registration with AHPRA or other relevant professional body.
- Minimum five years' post-registration clinical experience in aged care, community health, rehabilitation, hospital transition care, palliative care or a related setting.
- Demonstrated experience in care management, case coordination or clinical service delivery.
- Current driver's licence.
- National Police Check.
We would also love you to bring:
- Strong understanding of contemporary reablement, rehabilitation or wellness approaches, and the ability to translate into practice.
- Proven ability to lead practice improvement, influence multidisciplinary teams and build capability in complex service environments.
- Exceptional communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Strong clinical reasoning and risk management capability.
- Ability to analyse service trends and use data to inform decision-making and quality improvement.
Why join ECH?
We want you to be MORE with us. We’re passionate about supporting our people through wellbeing programs, opportunities for career growth and competitive benefits. You’ll enjoy all of this in a supportive work environment where you can create meaningful connections with colleagues who have your back.
What does this mean for you?
- As part of a not-for-profit organisation, you can enjoy salary packaging benefits of up to $18,549 per year to reduce your taxable income
- We support your health and fitness with free access to ECH gyms and discounted wellness services
- Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and access to the Moving Mindz app-based wellness program
- Opportunities to connect with your ECH community through annual employee team dinners, Christmas celebrations and town hall gatherings
- Grow your career through mentoring programs, supported scholarships and annual performance & development planning (PDP)
For more information on our benefits and what it’s like to work at ECH, visit our careers page. https://www.ech.asn.au/careers/meet-some-of-our-team
Ready to be part of something special?
Join us and help older South Australians get MORE out of life.
We will review applications as they come in and move quickly to secure the right candidate. Applications close Sunday 9th August 2026
For more information, please contact [email protected]
We encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds to apply, including those living with a disability, from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds, part of the LGBTI community, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. If you require reasonable adjustments or would like to share your pronouns at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know.
