Allied Health Assistant
careers at Monash Health

Allied Health Assistant careers at Monash Health

Monash Health is an industry leader for the Allied Health Assistant (AHA) workforce and is an ideal workplace for both early career and established AHAs to grow and thrive. 

Allied Health Assistants are a highly valued workforce within Monash Health and work within a range of disciplines including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, dietetics, social work, exercise physiology, podiatry and in other multidisciplinary teams across hospital and community settings. 

About our Allied Health Assistant (AHA) team

Monash Health has one of the largest AHA workforces in the state and supports AHAs to broaden their skills and scope-of-practice through a robust competency and credentialing program, a strong supervision structure, and regular professional development opportunities.  

For AHAs looking to grow their careers, Monash Health offers pathways into leadership, non-clinical roles in workforce projects, education and development, and opportunities to contribute to quality improvement and workforce advancement. 

Each year, Monash Health hosts AHA Day, which is a national conference for AHAs across Australia and New Zealand. 

In 2020, Monash Health collaborated with the Victorian Department of Health in the 3-year Victorian Allied Health Assistant Workforce Project culminating in the development of workforce recommendations and resources to optimise utilisation of AHAs in all sectors. These recommendations and resources are now being implemented across Victoria.  

With sites across southeast Melbourne, at Monash Health there are opportunities for AHAs to work close to home and fit their careers with their lifestyle.

Our areas of Allied Health Assistant practice

Acute hospital-based care

Allied Health Assistants work in the acute hospital-based care setting at Monash Medical Centre, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital and the Victorian Heart Hospital.  

AHAs in acute hospital-based care work within teams including:  

  • Physiotherapy 
  • Occupational therapy 
  • Speech pathology 
  • Dietetics 
  • Social Work.

Sub-acute hospital based care

Working with both inpatients and outpatients, Allied Health Assistants working in subacute hospital-based care work across Kingston Centre, Moorabbin Hospital and Casey Hospital. 

AHA’s in subacute hospital-based care work within teams including:  

  • Physiotherapy 
  • Occupational therapy 
  • Speech pathology 
  • Dietetics 
  • Social Work 
  • Exercise Physiology 
  • Podiatry. 

Care in the community

In the community setting, Allied Health Assistants work within multidisciplinary teams at various Monash Health Community sites, including Dandenong, Springvale, Cranbourne, Pakenham and Cheltenham.  

These teams include: 

  • Child, Youth and Family 
  • Forensics 
  • Aged and Community Care 
  • Community Rehabilitation. 

Children's

There are opportunities for Allied Health Assistants to work as a part of a multidisciplinary team with inpatients at the Monash Children’s Hospital.  

Our paediatric AHAs support Allied Health Disciplines in the following units: 

  • Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Units 
  • Oncology 
  • Specialty and Therapies Clinic 
  • Rehabilitation 
  • General Medicine 
  • Orthopaedics. 

“The role varies so much that there is always something new to learn, a new skill you can practice and new people to meet and interact with.”

During her time at Monash Health, AHA Nicole Ellery has worked across both Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy in rehabilitation, acute care and outpatients. 

Contact our Allied Health Assistants team

If you need help with your application or have any questions about what opportunities are available with an Allied Health Assistant career at Monash Health, we’d love to chat with you.

Speak with Kylie Saccotelli, Allied Health Assistant and Support Workforce Advisor at Monash Health.

Email Kylie.Saccotelli@monashhealth.org

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