FAQs about the Statewide Clinical Network Lead

SCNs are cen­tral to advanc­ing clin­i­cal excel­lence and col­lab­o­ra­tion across South Australia’s health system.

SCNs bring togeth­er health pro­fes­sion­als, con­sumers and oth­er experts to lead change, solve com­plex prob­lems and improve out­comes in spe­cif­ic areas of health­care. Their work extends across the state and beyond SA Health.

A SCN Lead can be a clin­i­cian (med­ical, nurs­ing, allied or sci­en­tif­ic health pro­fes­sion­al) work­ing in either the pub­lic or pri­vate sec­tor. Con­sumers may express inter­est in shar­ing the SCN Lead role as co-lead. 

SCN Leads are peo­ple who can demon­strate lead­er­ship skills and the abil­i­ty to empow­er oth­ers to dri­ve improve­ment and inno­va­tion collaboratively.

The SCN Lead chairs net­work meet­ings and works close­ly with net­work mem­bers to direct the SCN oper­a­tions and decision-making.

All SCN Leads also rep­re­sent their net­work on the Clin­i­cal Coun­cil, the peak clin­i­cal advi­so­ry body that pro­vides input into statewide and strate­gic deci­sions affect­ing clin­i­cal care in South Australia.

The role requires the SCN Lead to have ded­i­cat­ed time avail­able to ful­fil their respon­si­bil­i­ties, with the sup­port of their employ­er. Hours allo­cat­ed to SCN work are flexible.

Yes. Region­al and rur­al clin­i­cians and con­sumers are encour­aged to apply.

SA Health employ­ees: The Local Heath Net­work will sup­port the SCN Lead to ful­fil the statewide respon­si­bil­i­ties of their role. This may include allo­ca­tion of non-clin­i­cal time and/​or fund­ed sup­port to back­fill clin­i­cal time based on local, case-by- case negotiations.

Non-SA Health clin­i­cians and con­sumers/​car­ers: Sup­port (finan­cial and non-finan­cial) for non-SA Health SCN Leads is at the dis­cre­tion of their employer.

Con­sumer co-Leads will be remu­ner­at­ed as per CEIH and SA Health remu­ner­a­tion policies.

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SCN Leads are appoint­ed for an ini­tial term of two years, with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of an exten­sion of up to 2 addi­tion­al years.