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Transform Lives Through Nursing - Withdrawal Services RN | DASSA Glenside

Join SA Health's DASSA team as a Registered Nurse in Withdrawal Services, where you'll provide essential care to patients during their recovery journey from drug and alcohol dependency. Working at our Glenside facility, you'll be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team delivering person-centred withdrawal management services. This rewarding 12-month contract position offers the opportunity to make a genuine difference in people's lives while advancing your nursing career in a specialised healthcare setting.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Advanced Nurse Manager, this role is responsible for providing comprehensive nursing care and support to patients undergoing drug and alcohol withdrawal, conducting bio-psycho-social assessments and implementing evidence-based treatment plans within a harm minimisation framework.

Duties for the role will include:

• Assess individual patient/client needs, plan, implement and/or coordinate appropriate service delivery from a range of accepted options including other disciplines or agencies,
• Provide direct person-centred nursing/midwifery care and/or individual case management to patients/clients on a shift-by-shift basis in a defined clinical area with increasing autonomy over time,
• Plan and coordinate services with other disciplines or agencies in providing individual health care needs,
• Conducting a comprehensive nursing and Bio-psycho-social assessment including nursing observations,
• Participate in quality improvement activities that contribute to patient/client safety, risk minimisation and safe work activities within the practice setting,
• Provide ward/team leader/coordination as required on a shift-by-shift basis. (A team leader is a RN assigned responsibility for supporting staff and coordinating patient/client care),
• Using good clinical and time management practices and systems by planning, prioritising activities for efficiency and timely completion of work,
• Providing timely appropriate documentation of program planning and evaluation and statistical data

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,
• Effective communication skills including, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
• Ability to prioritise workload,
• Ability to be, creative, innovative and flexible when approaching issues within a healthcare setting,
• Demonstrated commitment to providing consumer/client and family centred care,
• Effective communication skills including, IT skills (basic computing skills, including email and word processing) problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills with clear and concise communication,
• Care for clients whose physical health is compromised because of the use of alcohol and other drugs

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Jess Secriean, Associate Nurse Unit Manager, 0430949861, jess.secriean@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 25 January 2026

Attachments:

• Registered Nurse - Withdrawal Services DASSA- 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: 925780