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Registered Nurse – Peritoneal Dialysis Unit | SALHN

Join the Peritoneal Dialysis Unit at Flinders Medical Centre as a part-time Registered Nurse, supporting patients to confidently manage their renal health from home. You'll deliver specialist nursing care, provide hands-on patient education, and work closely with a multidisciplinary renal team within the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. This is an ongoing opportunity to build meaningful, long-term relationships with patients while growing your expertise in a respected tertiary hospital setting.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Consultant, in this role, you will deliver specialist peritoneal dialysis nursing care, educate and support patients to manage their treatment at home, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, continuous renal health outcomes.

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,
• Provide direct person-centred nursing/midwifery care and/or individual case management to patients/clients on a shift-by-shift basis in a defined clinical area with increasing autonomy over time,
• Participate in quality improvement activities that contribute to patient/client safety, risk minimisation and safe work activities within the practice setting,
• Provide ward/team leader/coordination as required on a shift-by-shift basis. (A team leader is a RN assigned responsibility for supporting staff and coordinating 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,
• Must hold a drivers license,
• Effective communication skills including, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
• Ability to prioritise workload,
• Demonstrated competence in the relevant area of nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Required to perform home visits to support peritoneal dialysis patients with their ongoing renal therapy

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Bridgette Kollias, Nurse Consultant - Peritoneal Dialysis, bridgette.kollias@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 14 June 2026

Attachments:

• Registered Nurse - Peritoneal Dialysis Unit 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: 941167