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Senior Nursing Position - Bangka Strait Nurse Unit Manager!

Lead a dedicated nursing team as Nurse Unit Manager for the Bangka Strait ward at Repat Health Precinct, overseeing clinical operations and ensuring exceptional patient care. This full-time contract position until February 2027 offers the opportunity to drive quality outcomes while mentoring staff within South Australia's largest health network. Join SA Health and make a meaningful impact in healthcare delivery while advancing your nursing leadership career.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Advanced Nursing Director, this role is responsible for providing the pivotal co-ordination of patient/client care delivery in a patient/client care area within the Bangka Strait ward.

Duties for the role will include:

• Integrate contemporary information and evidence with personal experience to support the decision making, innovative thinking and objective analysis that are expected at this level, eg. expert clinical knowledge underpins and informs their ability to support and lead clinical services and management activities that contribute to improve and optimise nursing/midwifery care,
• Use available information systems: to inform decision making, to implement and co-ordinate processes for quality improvement, to monitor and analyse incidents and accidents, 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 their area of expertise,
• Management of resources with due diligence,
• Ensure mechanisms are in place to support ongoing education where work and learning are integrated,
• Provides leadership and direction, acts as a role model, mentor, consultant and resource person

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 leadership skills including highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
• Ability to review and improve models of care to be person and family centred,
• Demonstrated ability to foster a workplace environment that develops staff potential,
• Proven ability for flexibility, innovation, and creativity within the whole of service setting,
• Registered Nurse and/or Midwife with at least 3 years post registration experience,
• Experience in management and leadership roles,
• Experience in coordination and leadership of Quality and Safety framework and processes

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Maria Garcia, RAP Casual Pool Clinical Support Nurse, (08) 8404 2657, Maria.Garcia2@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 29th March 2026

Attachments:

• RN3 Nurse Unit Manager Bangka Strait- 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: 931737