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Casual Registered Nurse – Anaesthetics | SALHN

Flinders Medical Centre is seeking a skilled Casual Registered Nurse with proven anaesthetic experience to join its perioperative team within the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. Working across a broad range of surgical specialties in a busy tertiary setting, you will deliver expert anaesthetic nursing support alongside dedicated clinical teams through to June 2027. This role suits an experienced anaesthetic nurse looking for casual flexibility without stepping back from high-acuity, rewarding clinical work.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, this role is responsible for providing skilled anaesthetic nursing support across a diverse range of surgical specialties, managing equipment, drug preparation, and patient care in close collaboration with anaesthetists and surgical teams at Flinders Medical Centre.

Duties for the role will include:

• Assess individual patient/client needs, plan, implement and/or coordinate appropriate service delivery from a range of accepted options including other disciplines or agencies.
• Participate in quality improvement activities that contribute to patient/client safety, risk minimisation and safe work activities within the practice setting,
• Provide health promotion and education, to patients/clients or groups and carers to improve the health outcomes of individual
• Plan and coordinate services with other disciplines or agencies in providing individual health care needs

About you:

• Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate,
• Effective communication skills including, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
• Ability to prioritise workload,
• Ability to be, creative, innovative and flexible when approaching issues within a healthcare setting,
• Demonstrated competence in Anaesthetic nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Only candidates with proven prior Anaesthetic experience will be considered

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Cathie Hashemi, NUM Anaes, (08) 8204 6517, Cathie.Hashemi@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 7 June 2026

Attachments:

• Registered Nurse (Casual)- 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: 940596