- Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
- Gawler Health Service
- Salary: RN/M3 $130,190 to $136,010 p.a. + penalties
- Full-Time, Ongoing role
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?
The Nurse Unit Manager - Medical role offers the opportunity to provide clinical leadership and line management and make a meaningful impact as you deliver high-quality, patient-centred care across diverse clinical settings. In this role, you’ll grow your expertise while supporting and mentoring others, taking pride in your professional accountability and commitment to excellence.
This position enables you to lead models of care, oversee local resource management, support ongoing education and professional development, and contribute to research, evaluation and continuous improvement initiatives. You will play a pivotal role in coordinating care delivery, optimising service systems, managing risk, and ensuring best practice standards underpin patient/client outcomes.
WHO ARE WE?
The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network offers opportunities across our sites, from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda, wrapping all the way around our metropolitan areas. We pride ourselves on providing exceptional care to all our consumers, residents, their families, and community. Our mission is to ensure that you always receive the best quality, safe, consistent, collaborative care and always with kindness. We do this by maintaining exceptional levels of care at all times supported by systems and processes that assure us of quality and safety of our staff and those we serve.
WHERE AND HOW YOU WILL WORK
From heritage streets to riverside walks, boutique shopping and relaxed café moments, Gawler invites you to slow down, wander a little further, stay a little longer and discover the stories around every corner. Just 43 km north of Adelaide and on the edge of the renowned Barossa Valley, Gawler blends historic charm with vibrant local culture. Planned in 1839 by William Light, the town is rich in character, with grand stone buildings, historic pubs and beautifully preserved streets. Visit Gawler here.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Are you committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred care and strive for excellent patient outcomes every day?
- Are you keen to showcase your clinical leadership skills to support a collaborative, high-performing team?
- Are you passionate about mentoring and developing others, fostering a strong culture of learning and continuous professional growth?
- Are you willing to drive improvement by engaging in quality, safety, and evidence-based practice initiatives?
- Are you committed to contribute to efficient service delivery, including patient flow, care coordination, and problem-solving within the clinical setting?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions - then read on…
HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?
- Lead and support teams to ensure consistent, policy‑aligned practice and high standards of performance.
- Manage unit resources responsibly, fostering a culture of accountability, compliance and due diligence.
- Drive evidence‑based practice, quality improvement, and safety initiatives in line with current professional standards.
- Work effectively with children, young people, women and families, responding to complex needs, cultural diversity and consumer expectations.
WHAT WILL WE OFFER YOU IN RETURN?
At BHFLHN, not only will you be working in an environment surrounded by beautiful scenery and nature we see your work here as not just as a job, but an opportunity to extend, progress or consolidate your career with us. We therefore offer you opportunities to be supported in the following ways:
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year Click here more information
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities.
- Support for you and your family via our free Employee Assistance Program.
- Health and Fitness Benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to BHFLHN staff and their families.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW/WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS?
Working in this environment, it is important to us that we only employ people with the upmost integrity and commitment to serving the South Australian community and its visitors to the highest possible standards. To ensure that we meet that commitment there are a few checks that you will be required to undertake. These are detailed on the Role Description, but are likely to include the following:
- You will need to undergo employment screening, what you require is also on the front page of the Role Description.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
We employ people as diverse as the clients we support and the environments we work in. At BHFLHN we pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees and therefore we encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community. We continually look for ways to support and promote diversity and flexible ways of working so please let us know what interests you.
NEED TO RELOCATE?
Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. See what is available here: Relocation support | SA Health. Find out more about working in the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, and see what it looks like to work and live in regional Australia at: https://movetomore.com.au/
HELP IS HERE!
Please refer to all the details in the Role Description below (job ref: 933450), or reach out to Sue Renshaw, Director of Nursing on Phone: 8521 2025 or via E-mail: sue.renshaw@sa.gov.au
To find out what you need to apply, and what is required to be offered a role, please refer to the Applicant Checklist BHFLHN Applicant Checklist.pdf. Please also click here for our Australian applicant guidelines
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DON’T HESITATE! Applications Close on 6 May 2026 at 11:55PM
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