SA Health Hiring for Talent Acquisition and Retention Specialist Job at Adelaide Full Time

South Australia has some of the best beaches, world famous wine regions, the Fringe Festival, the fantastic Adelaide Oval and enviable award-winning food and dining experiences. Adelaide consistently ranked in the world’s 10 most liveable cities throughout the 2010’s and in 2021 Adelaide was ranked the third most liveable city in the world. Adelaide has more affordable accommodation and less traffic congestion with easy access to all facilities from the beach to the Adelaide Hills and scenic regional areas. With a population of over 1,300,000, Adelaide has all of the advantages of bigger cities without the dense population and expense.

An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) as a Talent Acquisition and Retention Specialist.

NALHN provides care to more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide as well as providing a number of state-wide services, and services to those in regional areas. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,000 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

The Talent Acquisition and Retention Specialist (TARS) is accountable to the Executive Director People and Culture for identifying, designing and delivering NALHN’s strategic recruitment initiatives and programs, including but not limited to large scale strategic recruitment campaigns and processes.

This role is responsible for understanding workforce acquisition and retention challenges and for developing and delivering talent acquisition solutions across a range of professions across in complex organisation.

This role will lead the design and delivery of a contemporary approach to delivering a great ‘candidate experience’ throughout the recruitment process and for identifying opportunities for enhanced engagement and retention across the employee lifecycle.

This role will be required to provide continuous business improvement through the ongoing reform and identification of enhanced recruitment practices to meet NALHN’s current and future workforce needs. The roll will be responsible for driving various strategic initiatives regarding the recruitment of roles consistent with best HR Practice.

The incumbent will be responsible for driving various people related initiatives, and for investigating and researching current and leading edge recruitment approaches to deliver high quality outcomes for NALHN.

COVID-19 vaccination is an essential requirement under the Emergency Management (COVID-19) (Healthcare Setting Workers Vaccination) Directions 2022 No 7 to work in SA Health/health care setting.

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.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 802974