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Provide independent governance and strategic guidance to ensure high-quality care and client outcomes for older people. Lead clinical governance and safety initiatives, potentially serving as chair of the Client Care Committee.
Requires a professional with practical experience in high-quality clinical care, specifically in geriatrics, and previous board governance experience. Must possess a valid NDIS Screening clearance and align with the organization's mission and values.
Board Director
Helping Hand
Adelaide, South Australia > North Adelaide
Three-year term plus eligible for 3 + 3-year extension (total of 9 years)
There to care. Here for good.
An opportunity for a professional to join a skills-based, highly experienced Board and contribute to a purpose driven organisation.
Here at Helping Hand we've been a leading provider of aged care in communities across South Australia since 1953. That's a long journey, and we're proud of our stability and strength.
Now, we're on a mission to continue to grow and improve our services and impact, hand in hand with our fantastic team.
Help shape the future of aged care in South Australia
As a Board Director with Helping Hand, you will help guide our mission to create communities and experiences that enable older people to live their best lives.
Joining a skilled and experienced Board, you will bring an independent governance perspective and contribute to strong decision-making that supports quality care and client outcomes.
This role is suited to a leader with clinical care experience in supporting older people, preferably with expertise in geriatrics.
You will play a key role in strengthening clinical governance, multidisciplinary practice, and quality and safety leadership across the organisation.
As a member, or potential chair, of the Client Care Committee, you will help ensure Helping Hand continues to meet the needs of clients and communities across South Australia.
Further information about the competencies, attributes, skills and experience required is provided below.
What you’ll bring
Applications are invited from professionals who have:
● Experience in providing high quality clinical care at a practical level
● Previous governance experience and knowledge of Director duties and responsibilities
● A genuine passion and interest in the aged care sector
● Alignment with Helping Hand’s mission, vision and values
● A valid NDIS Screening clearance or be willing to obtain one
You’ll stand out if you have some of the following:
● Experience overseeing clinical governance arrangements to ensure safe, quality clinical care.
● Experience and broad understanding of the aged care industry.
● A deep understanding of the current health policy environment and its practical application to aged care.
Please click the link below to view the Board Director information pack:
Board Director Information Pack
Board and Committee Dates 2026
Why Helping Hand?
At Helping Hand, care is at the heart of everything we do. For more than 70 years, we have supported older people across South Australia to live with dignity, independence and connection.
As a Board Director, you will join an organisation that is deeply committed to its residents, clients, volunteers and staff. Guided by our values and purpose, we strive to create communities and experiences that enable older people to live their best lives.
You will be part of a passionate and experienced Board, working alongside leaders who genuinely care about the quality of care we provide and the positive impact we have on the people and communities we serve.
You’ll enjoy the following benefits:
This is a remunerated Board Director position.
Term: Three years term plus eligible for 3 + 3-year extension (total of 9 years)
Time Commitment: The Board typically meets six times per annum, generally on Tuesday afternoons and committees meet quarterly. Extra-ordinary meetings may be called from time to time.
Are you ready to lend a helping hand?
How to apply:
For enquiries or to submit a Board CV for this position, please contact Luci Badge or apply online today.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 8224 7803
Applications close July 10th 2026.
We will be reviewing applications as they are submitted and conduct interviews accordingly.
All applicants must have the right to work in Australia and hold relevant checks or be willing to obtain them.
Helping Hand welcomes and respects the diversity our clients, staff and volunteers bring. Regardless of their culture, religion, spirituality, age, gender, sexuality, disability, socio-economic background or personal experiences, our people are included and respected.
Helping Hand strongly recommends that all employees receive COVID-19 and flu vaccinations, as we work in a high-risk setting and are in contact with vulnerable people.
We welcome & celebrate all people, & deliver personalised & professional services to meet the needs of older Australians
Helping Hand provides residential aged care, home support services, health care and community programs to older people in metropolitan Adelaide and regional South Australia. Our comprehensive range of services reflects our commitment to choice for older people, and our investment in innovative research and partnerships shows our commitment to respond to our clients’ needs in the changing landscape of aged care in Australia. Whether our client chooses to remain in their own home or join us in our home environment, we believe that we must understand the client’s point of view and recognise their needs. Our clients and their families are provided with the opportunity to be included in their care, decision-making and planning at every step of the way. Helping Hand has gone from strength to strength for seventy years, and now employs more than 2,000 staff and 600 volunteers, providing services to more than 7,000 clients across the state. Our work has a national influence on strategy for ageing – through direct consultation with the Commonwealth Government, we help shape thinking and policy. Our clients’ needs and their personal freedom drive how we innovate, plan, manage and deliver services – they are our motivation.
Offices: South Australia, AU
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