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• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
• Salary: $100,343 - $107,279 p.a. (pro rata) – RN2A – Temporary Part-Time – working 32 hours per week, up to 27 September 2025

About the Role:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking a highly skilled Associate Nurse Unit Manager to join the Intensive Care Unit team to make a meaningful impact on our patients and their families.

As an Associate Nurse Unit Manager – ICU, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of exceptional patient care in our Intensive Care Unit. You will work closely with the Nurse Unit Manager, providing leadership and guidance to a dedicated team of nurses, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care to critically ill patients.

This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute your clinical expertise and leadership skills to a dynamic and challenging environment. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring effective communication and coordination of care, while promoting best practices and continuous improvement.

Extensive experience (minimum of 3 years) in an Intensive Care Unit setting, coupled with a proven track record in leadership and team management, is essential. Exceptional communication, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities are vital to excel in this position.

To be eligible for this position, you must be registered or be eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and hold, or be eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate. A post graduate qualification in Critical Care Nursing (Intensive Care Nursing) is highly desirable. 

About You:

Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Registered Nurse looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

About Us:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality medical services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care. Recently, NALHN has upgraded its facilities and plans to expand further. The network provides primary health care with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management. With nearly 6,500 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

Our Local Health Network Sites and Services:

Lyell McEwin Hospital – The major hospital in the north and north-east for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics and outpatient services.

Modbury Hospital – A general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care. 

Benefits of working at NALHN:

From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

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.

Check(s):

• DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (e.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 879189

Enquiries:

Julie Penney

A/ Nurse Manager

Phone: 0414 520 250

E-mail: julie.penney@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date:

18 October 2024 – 11.55PM

Role Description:

 879189 - Associate Nurse Unit Manager - ICU - RN2A - role description.pdf

* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.