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Clinical Nurse - Data Manager ICU | Advance Your Career at SALHN

Join Flinders Medical Centre as a Clinical Nurse - Data Manager ICU, where you'll combine your ICU clinical expertise with advanced data management to drive evidence-based patient care improvements. This unique role requires high-level proficiency with EMR and IT systems alongside strong data analysis skills to support our world-class intensive care unit. You'll work autonomously within a collaborative team environment, directly influencing patient outcomes through innovative data-driven healthcare solutions.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Consultant Quality and Safety, this role is responsible for providing expert ICU clinical care while managing complex data systems and conducting analysis to support evidence-based practice improvements and quality patient outcomes.

Duties for the role will include:

• Provide expert guidance on the EMR platform to support clinical care standards and documentation integrity
• Provide education on EMR use to ensure proficient, person centred, clinical nursing/midwifery care 
• Monitoring patient/client care plans to ensure appropriate care outcomes are achieved on a daily basis, 
• Assists and supports the Nurse Consultant Quality and Safety and Nurse Unit Manager or equivalent in management, clinical, and education activities,
• Uses clinical knowledge and experience to evaluate and submit ICU data metrics
• Collaborate and coordinate services within the ICU multi-disciplinary team
• Act to resolve local and/or immediate EMR, nursing/midwifery care or IT service delivery problems,
• Participate in clinical teaching, overseeing learning experience, and goal setting for students, new staff and staff with less experience

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,
• Post-graduate critical-care nursing qualification,
• Effective communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team as well as autonomously,
• Registered Nurse/Midwife with at least 3 years, full time equivalent, post registration experience,
• Demonstrated proficiency in critical care patient management,
• Experience in clinical leadership and operational management,
• Experience with quality improvement activities,
• Experience in evaluating the results of nursing research and integrating, where relevant, the results into nursing practice,
• Strong proficiency with EMR, Microsoft applications (Excel) and database management

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Kathrine De Lyster, Nursing Director ICU, 0422 757 538, Kathrine.DeLyster@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 22 February 2026

Attachments:

• RN2C Clinical Nurse Data Manager - 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: 929032