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Lung Nodule Nurse Navigator - Guide Patients Through Critical Cancer Care Journeys

Join Flinders Medical Centre as a Lung Nodule Nurse Navigator and guide patients through their critical cancer screening journey from initial detection to treatment. You'll coordinate care between specialist teams while providing essential support and education to patients navigating complex diagnostic pathways in line with the National Lung Cancer Screening Program (NLCSP). This part-time ongoing role offers the opportunity to make a direct impact on early cancer detection outcomes in South Australia's leading public health system.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Head of Unit, this role is responsible for ensuring that SALHN aligns with the NLCSP and provides expert clinical care and advice to patients/clients and other health care professionals with complex healthcare needs in SALHN. The LNNN is a highly qualified Nurse, who, through leadership, facilitates excellence in evidence based clinical practice, education, research, and professional leadership. 

Duties for the role will include:

• Provide direct, expert clinical nursing/midwifery care, select and implement different therapeutic interventions, provide individual case management to a defined population of patients/clients and evaluate progress,
• Contribute expert nursing/midwifery assessment and advice to local clinical teams to achieve integrated nursing/midwifery care within a risk management framework,
• Be required in a multidisciplinary primary health care setting to apply nursing/midwifery expertise to assess referrals, clients, select and implement different therapeutic interventions and/or support programs and evaluate patient/client progress,
• Use available information systems: to inform decision making, to implement and co-ordinate processes for quality improvement, to monitor and analyse data and referrals, to ensure quality and safety is not compromised, to evaluate outcomes and convey information to staff,
• Contribute to the development of, implementation of, and monitoring of corporate policies and processes and lead in the area of NLCSP within SALHN

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,
• Demonstrated ability to foster a workplace environment that develops staff potential,
• Proven ability for flexibility, innovation and creativity within the whole of service setting,
• Demonstrated competence in lung cancer nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Post graduate qualifications in either – Acute Care Nursing (with an interest in Respiratory) and /or Cancer Nursing

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

The attached role description is currently under review and may be adjusted prior to appointment. All applicants will be provided with the finalised role description.

Want To Know More? Contact: Melissa McRoe, Advanced Nursing Director, 0481 391 313, Melissa.McRoe@sa.gov.au 

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Friday 19 December 2025

Attachments:

• Lung Nodule Nurse Navigator - Role Description
• 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: 923810.