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• Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network, Berri
• RN/M4 | Full Time Contract | Temporary (contract up to 2 years)
• Salary: $132,177 - $137,771 p.a
• Eligibility: Open to Everyone

Advanced Nurse Unit Manager – Lead and Inspire Excellence in Mental Health Care

Take the next step in your leadership career and make a meaningful impact in mental health care. This is your opportunity to guide and support a dedicated team while ensuring safe, high-quality, and person-centred services for consumers.

About the Role:

The Advanced Nurse Unit Manager uses clinical knowledge and experience to provide pivotal coordination of consumer care delivery within a Mental Health Unit and/or Community Service. The primary focus of this role is the line management, coordination, and leadership of the nursing and multi-disciplinary team, including local resource management, to achieve continuity and quality of care outcomes.

In this role, you will accept accountability for the outcomes of nursing and multi-disciplinary practices, address inconsistencies between practice and policy, and foster team development within a positive and supportive work culture to achieve the best possible consumer outcomes.

You will lead, manage, oversee, and advise on nursing and mental health service delivery for a defined service area that is complex and significant in scope, requiring advanced leadership and professional expertise.

What We’re Looking For:

• Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate with the notation of Nurse Practitioner.
• Must hold a Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing or equivalent in mental health nursing.
• Registered Nurse and/or Midwife with at least 3 years post registration experience.
• Demonstrated competence in clinical mental health nursing practice within a mental health service and in accordance with the appropriate standards of practice.
• Demonstrated success in working within a multidisciplinary environment.
• Experience in management and leadership roles.
• Experience in the financial and asset management of a service.
• Experience in the human resource management.
• Experience working with Aboriginal consumers and communities to provide culturally appropriate health services.

About Us

The Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network, called RMCLHN for short, supports more than 70,000 people living in country South Australia in the towns and surrounds of Renmark, Paringa, Berri, Barmera, Waikerie, Loxton, Pinnaroo, Lameroo, Karoonda, Mannum, Murray Bridge, Tailem Bend, Meningie, Tintinara and Coonalpyn. Click here for more information about working for RMCLHN.

• We will provide support, both personally and professionally giving you access to a range of education and training opportunities designed to enhance your role.
• Offer flexible work arrangements to better balance work, personal life, and family commitments.
• Provide an inclusive workplace culture that values diversity, ensuring every employee feels a sense of belonging and safety.
• Offer salary sacrifice benefits, watch a short video about what salary packaging is.
• Provide Relocation Support, where applicable. More information available from SA Health Careers - Relocation support.
• Looking for a change in scenery? – Nursing & Midwifery

Applicant Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working 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 appropriate immunisation requirements:

• DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC) 
• DHS National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Worker Check 
• 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

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: 916402

Enquiries

Deb Petch
Personal Assistant
Phone: (08) 8580 2515
E-mail: debbie.petch@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date

Tuesday 21st October 2025 - 11.55 PM

Attachments

916402 RN/M4 Role Description.pdf

About Berri Workforce Factsheet.pdf

Australian applicant guidelines

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