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Step Forward, Lead Strong - Associate Nurse Unit Manager Position, Marjorie Tripp Ward

Lead nursing excellence as an Associate Nurse Unit Manager at Flinders Medical Centre, supporting operational leadership while mentoring staff and ensuring outstanding patient care standards. This position offers the perfect opportunity to advance your healthcare leadership career within SA Health's premier teaching hospital environment. Join our dedicated team where your clinical expertise and leadership skills will make a meaningful difference to patients and colleagues across Adelaide's southern metropolitan region.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager (NUM), this role is responsible for providing co-ordination of patient/client care delivery within the Older Persons Assessment (OPAL) /Residential Care Outreach (RCOT) Ward. The main focus of this role is to support the ward and the NUM by providing operational management, coordination and leadership guidance for the nursing team to achieve continuity and quality of patient/client care and outcomes. 

Duties for the role will include:

• Support daily patient flow (admissions / discharges) through the Marjorie Tripp Ward
• Ensure that service provision and the activities of the Division / Unit / Ward / Service are person and family centred and professionally and effectively conducted by contributing to the development of an integrated team approach and culture which is highly responsive to the needs of our consumers,
• Provide proficient, person centred, clinical nursing/midwifery care and/or individual case management to patients/clients in a defined clinical area,
• Assists and supports the Nurse/Midwife Unit Manager or equivalent in management, clinical, and education activities,
• Plan and coordinate services including those from other disciplines,
• Act to resolve local and/or immediate nursing/midwifery care or service delivery problems

About you:

• Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate,
• Registered Nurse/Midwife with at least 3 years, full time equivalent, post registration experience,
• Demonstrated competence in specialised care of the older person in nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Experience in the leadership and direction of student nurses, enrolled nurses and less experienced registered nurses.

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Maria Garcia, RAP, Clinical Support Nurse, (08) 8404 2657, Maria.Garcia2@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Thursday 25 September 2025

Attachments:

• Associate Nurse Unit Manager Role Description MARJORIE TRIPP
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• 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 and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• 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: 912770