Join our Nurse Practitioner Team

Join SA Health's Southern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Nurse Practitioner Candidate in our Northern Drug and Alcohol Services Adelaide unit. This full-time, ongoing position offers an exceptional pathway to advance your nursing career whilst making a meaningful difference in addiction medicine and mental health care.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Regional Manager this role is responsible for providing clinical nursing/midwifery expertise for specified individual patients/clients and/or groups/populations, and/or provide clinical leadership for an area of practice and may work in a variety of clinical settings. Employees classified at this level are experts within their area and stream of practice and have a significant degree of autonomy and decision making.

Duties for the role will include:

• Keeping professionally up to date with relevant research, technological advances and models of care.
• Working appropriately and in a culturally respectful way with children, youth, women and their families where there are multiple complexities, diverse cultural backgrounds and expectations of clients.
• Accepting responsibility for the maintenance of own knowledge and professional competence and contemporary practices.
• Working collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team and across organisational Divisions/sites and promotes communication processes to enable best patient/client outcomes.

About you:

• Demonstrated ability to work as a practitioner with significant degree of independence and/or as part of a multidisciplinary team with advanced counselling and clinical skills within the alcohol and other drug field.
• Demonstrated clinical leadership skills including highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution, change management and negotiation skills.
• Ability to provide comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment of clients experiencing alcohol, tobacco and other drug problems with complex comorbidities requiring medication assisted treatment.
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet set timelines.
• A successful applicant will be required to undertake a Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) commencing February 2026.

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Pennye Richter, Acting Regional Manager, 7485 4600, Pennye.Richter@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Thursday 6th November 2025

Attachments:

• Nurse Consultant 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: 918498