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Lead Nursing Anaesthetic Services at South Australia's Leading Medical Centre

Lead a skilled nursing team in the Anaesthetics team at Flinders Medical Centre Operating Theatres, one of South Australia's premier teaching hospitals. This senior nursing role combines clinical expertise with strategic management, overseeing perioperative care delivery while mentoring staff and driving quality improvements. Join SA Health's commitment to excellence in patient care while advancing your leadership career in a supportive, innovative healthcare environment.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nursing Director, this role is responsible for providing clinical leadership and operational management of the Nursing Anaesthetic unit, ensuring exceptional perioperative patient care while leading and developing a multidisciplinary nursing team.

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,
• Integrate contemporary information and evidence with personal experience to support the decision making, innovative thinking and objective analysis that are expected at this level. e.g. Expert Clinical knowledge underpins and informs their ability to support and lead clinical services and management activities that contribute to improve and optimise nursing/midwifery care,
• 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,
• The Perioperative Nurse Unit Manager undertakes a combination of patient care area/ team leadership and resource management. The main focus of this role is the line management, coordination and leadership of nursing activities to achieve continuity and quality of patient/client care 

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,
• 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 review and improve models of care to be person and family centred,
• Registered Nurse/Midwife with at least 3 years, full time equivalent, post registration experience
• Demonstrated competence in Anaesthetic nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Kathryn Morgan, Advanced Nurse Manager Perioperative Services, 0466014716, Kathryn.Morgan@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 24 May 2026

Attachments:

• Nurse Unit Manager- Anaesthetics 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: 938287