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Advance Your Nursing Career - Chronic Kidney Disease Specialist Role | Southern Adelaide

Join SA Health as a Part-time Nurse Consultant specialising in Chronic Kidney Disease at Flinders Medical Centre. You will provide expert clinical guidance to patients with chronic kidney disease whilst collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver exceptional care. This ongoing position offers the opportunity to advance your nephrology nursing career within South Australia's leading healthcare network.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nursing Director, this role is responsible for providing specialist nursing consultation and develop evidence-based care plans for patients with chronic kidney disease across the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network.

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 is expected at this level eg Expert clinical knowledge underpins and informs their ability to support, lead and/or provide expert clinical care to improve and optimise nursing/midwifery care,
• Provide direct, expert clinical nursing/midwifery care to CDK patient cohort, select and implement different therapeutic interventions, provide individual case management to a defined population of patients/clients and evaluate progress,
• 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,
• Hold a contemporary professional practice portfolio containing evidence of postgraduate qualifications related to Nephrology and CKD, 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 and Midwife 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,
• 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,
• Registered Nurse and or Midwife with at least 3 years post registration experience,
• Registered Nurse/Midwife with at least 3 years, full time equivalent, post registration experience,
• Demonstrated competence in Nephrology nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• 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: Amanda Osborne, Interim Advanced Nurse Manager, 82045595, Amanda.Osborne@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 12 April 2026

Attachments:

• RN03-Nurse Consultant Chronic Kidney Disease - 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: 933639