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Join Our PACU Nursing Team at Flinders Medical Centre - RN Position Available

Join our preoperative nursing team at Flinders Medical Centre, where you'll provide essential patient care and support in recovering individuals from surgical procedures. This part-time contract position offers the opportunity to work in a leading teaching hospital environment, collaborating with experienced surgical teams while delivering compassionate care to patients and their families. Make a meaningful impact in healthcare while enjoying flexible working arrangements and professional development opportunities within SA Health's supportive network.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, this role is responsible for conducting comprehensive preoperative assessments, educate patients about their surgical procedures, and provide compassionate nursing care while collaborating with multidisciplinary surgical teams.

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 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,
• 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),
• Provide health promotion and education, to patients/clients or groups and carers to improve the health outcomes of individual,
• Provide, with increasing capacity over time, support and guidance to newer or less experienced staff, Enrolled Nurses, student nurses and other workers providing basic nursing care

About you:

• 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,
• Effective communication skills including, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
• Demonstrated competence in PACU nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in PACU nursing,
• Ability to use technology and computer skills

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Kathryn Morgan, Advanced Nurse Manager Perioperative Services, 0466014716, Kathryn.Morgan@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 1 March 2026

Attachments:

• Registered Nurse- Preoperative Nursing Services- 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: 929696