- Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
- Position based in Victor Harbor
- Salary: $90,913 - $114,917 p.a (pro rata) + benefits
- Ongoing, Part Time working 19 hours per week
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?
We are looking for a skilled and compassionate Clinical Nurse to join our dedicated team within the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network. In this role, you will provide expert clinical nursing care and support the development and delivery of effective wound care. You will provide advanced nursing services with a strong focus on the assessment, planning, and management of clients with complex wounds.
As the Wound Care clinician you will deliver expert clinical care, supporting evidence-based treatment planning, and providing specialist advice to improve patient outcomes. A key component of the role includes educating and assessing the competency of nursing staff within inpatient and outpatient settings to ensure safe, consistent, and high-quality wound care practice.
WHO ARE WE?
The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network runs 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
Just over an hour’s drive from Adelaide, Victor Harbor curves around the wide sands of Encounter Bay, where granite headlands meet rolling surf and sea air carries a sense of escape. For generations of South Australians, this has been the quintessential seaside holiday town — nostalgic, animated and grounded in nature. For more information discover Victor Harbor here.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Do you have a strong commitment to evidence-based practice and clinical excellence, with a genuine drive to improve outcomes for patients with complex wounds?
- Do you have a passion for education and mentoring, including supporting and developing the skills and confidence of nursing and multidisciplinary staff?
- Do you value professional accountability and integrity, with a strong sense of ownership for clinical decisions and patient care standards?
- Are you motivated to improve systems and practice, including contributing to quality improvement, research, and the development of clinical guidelines and pathways?
- Are you genuinely interested in collaborative, multidisciplinary care, working proactively with teams to deliver consistent, coordinated, and patient-centred wound management?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions – then read on….
HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?
- Provide expert wound care assessment, treatment planning, and ongoing clinical management for patients with complex wounds in the acute setting.
- Deliver day-to-day clinical leadership within the team, ensuring care plans are monitored and optimal patient outcomes are achieved.
- Coordinate and deliver wound care education, training, and competency assessment for nursing and multidisciplinary staff to support best practice care.
- Contribute to service development, clinical governance, and improvement activities including protocols, guidelines, audits, and change management initiatives.
- Support multidisciplinary collaboration and provide specialist advice to enhance continuity of care, patient flow, and evidence-based wound management practices.
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:
- Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.
- 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.
- You will be required to hold registration with AHPRA to practice as a Registered Nurse within our organisation.
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: 934319), or reach out to Jane Buckley, Nurse Unit Manager, on Phone: 08 8393 1625 or via E-mail: jane.buckley@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 20 May 2026, 11:55PM
Eligibility: Open to everyone
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