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Step Up for After Hours Healthcare - Coordinator Position Available

Join SA Health as an After Hours Coordinator at SALHN Noarlunga, where you will ensure seamless healthcare operations during evenings, weekends, and public holidays. This part-time ongoing role involves coordinating staffing, managing resources, and maintaining communication between departments to deliver exceptional patient care when it matters most. Be part of a supportive team that keeps essential healthcare services running smoothly across Adelaide Metro Southern.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Director of Nursing, this role is responsible for coordinating staffing schedules, manage resource allocation, and maintain seamless communication between departments to ensure exceptional patient care during after-hours periods.

Duties for the role will include:

• 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,
• Provide operational leadership and manage resources with due diligence,
• Hold a contemporary professional practice portfolio containing evidence of postgraduate qualifications, learning and practice experience that underpin a demonstrable application of knowledge and skills commensurate with the level and type of practice expected of the role

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 leadership skills including highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
• Sound clinical skills at a senior level, in a variety of settings,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet set timelines,
• Demonstrated ability to foster a workplace environment that develops staff potential within a team framework,
• Registered Nurse/Midwife with at least 3 years, full time equivalent, post registration experience,
• Demonstrated competence in management and leadership roles in nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Demonstrated experience in managing projects,
•  Experience in the supervision of students, enrolled nurses and less experienced registered nurses and or midwives

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Liz Simpson, Hospital Coordinator / Nurse Manager, 0401 124 772, Liz.Simpson2@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Saturday 28 March 2026

Attachments:

• After Hours Coordinator- 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: 932281