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Shape Patient Care Excellence - Associate Nurse Unit Manager, Ward 5B

Join Flinders Medical Centre as an Associate Nurse Unit Manager for Ward 5B and take the next step in your nursing leadership journey. You will support daily ward operations, mentor nursing staff, and contribute to delivering exceptional patient care within South Australia's premier teaching hospital. This full-time, ongoing role offers excellent career development opportunities with SA Health, the state's largest employer committed to healthcare excellence.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, this role is responsible for supporting the Nurse Unit Manager in overseeing daily ward operations, mentoring nursing staff, and ensuring high-quality patient care delivery across Ward 5B.

Duties for the role will include:

• Ensure that service provision and the activities of the Division / Unit / Ward / Service are person and family centred and professionally and effectively conducted by contributing to the development of an integrated team approach and culture which is highly responsive to the needs of our consumers,
• Provide proficient, person centred, clinical nursing care and/or individual case management to patients/clients in a defined clinical area,
• Monitoring patient/client care plans to ensure appropriate care outcomes are achieved on a daily basis,
• Assists and supports the Nurse Unit Manager or equivalent in management, clinical, and education activities,
• Plan and coordinate services including those from other disciplines,
• Act to resolve local and/or immediate nursing care or service delivery problems,
• Participate in clinical teaching, overseeing learning experience, and goal setting for students, new staff and staff with less experience

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,
• Registered Nurse with at least 3 years, full time equivalent, post registration experience,
• Demonstrated competence in Neurosurgery/ENT surgery nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Experience in the leadership and direction of student nurses, enrolled nurses and less experienced registered nurses

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Tonya Heard, Nurse Unit Manager, 8204 6217, tonya.heard@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 26 April 2026

Attachments:

• 5B Associate Nurse Unit Manager 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: 935643