- Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
- Southern Fleurieu Health Service
- Salary: RN/M3C $130,190 p.a. to $136,010 p.a. + penalties
- Full-Time, Temporary Role up to 31 December 2026
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?
Step into a pivotal leadership role where you will shape and coordinate high-quality, multidisciplinary community health services that make a real difference to people’s lives. As a Team Leader (Level 3), you will use your clinical expertise to guide and support a diverse team, ensuring safe, effective, and responsive care across community, acute, and outpatient settings. You will have the opportunity to influence service delivery, use data to drive improvement, and ensure care remains aligned to the evolving needs of the community.
Working alongside a broad network of health professionals and leaders, you will play a key role in developing innovative models of care and strengthening workforce capability. As part of the wider Community and Allied Health leadership team, you will contribute to strategic planning and service integration, helping to build sustainable, future-focused health services while leading a team to achieve meaningful outcomes every day.
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
The Southern Fleurieu region is a picturesque coastal area of South Australia known for its relaxed lifestyle, stunning beaches, and strong sense of community. Centred around towns such as Victor Harbor, Goolwa, and surrounding coastal and rural communities, the region offers a mix of natural beauty, heritage charm, and easy access to both ocean and countryside environments.
Popular with tourists and locals alike, the area features iconic attractions including whale watching along the coast, the historic Cockle Train, and the scenic Murray Mouth and Coorong nearby. With its vibrant tourism, welcoming communities, and laid-back coastal atmosphere, the Southern Fleurieu provides an appealing balance of lifestyle and work opportunities.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Do you have a strong commitment to improving health outcomes through high-quality, evidence-based clinical leadership and service innovation.
- Do you have a passion for mentoring, developing, and supporting others to build capability and strengthen multidisciplinary workforce performance.
- Are you driven to improve systems and services through critical thinking, research, and continuous quality improvement.
- Do you have a strong commitment to culturally safe, person-centred care, with the ability to work effectively with Aboriginal consumers and diverse communities.
- Are you motivated to influence and contribute at a strategic level, shaping service delivery, policy, and workforce development across a complex health environment.
If you have answered yes to any of these questions - then read on…
HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?
You will……….
- Provide advanced clinical leadership and specialist expertise in complex care delivery, service development, and consultancy across multidisciplinary and regional health settings.
- Lead, mentor, and develop staff while contributing to workforce planning, performance management, education, clinical supervision, and capability building across BHFLHN.
- Drive service improvement through data analysis, evaluation, research, and quality initiatives, ensuring safe, effective, and evidence-based practice aligned to strategic priorities.
- Collaborate across disciplines and sectors to strengthen integrated, culturally safe, and consumer-centred care, including a focus on Aboriginal health and community needs.
- Prepare high-level reports and provide expert advice to management and executive teams to support decision-making, resource allocation, and service redesign.
- Promote continuous improvement, innovation, and professional accountability while ensuring compliance with policies, ethics, and organisational governance requirements.
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: 935303), or reach out to Dina Cowley, Community Nursing Director, on Phone: 0468559597 or via E-mail: Dina.cowley@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 14 May 2026 at 11:55PM
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