• Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
• Kangaroo Island Health Service
• Salary: RN/M3 $125,183 - $130,779 p.a + Superannuation + Leave Loading + Salary Sacrifice Benefits
• Ongoing Full Time role working over a 5-day roster 

WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?

This is an exciting leadership opportunity to step into a pivotal Nurse Unit Manager role within Aged Care, where you will drive clinical excellence, team performance and service outcomes. You will lead a committed nursing and multidisciplinary team, ensuring continuity, quality and safety of care for residents while fostering a positive and accountable workplace culture.

The role offers scope to strengthen your leadership capability across workforce management, service planning, quality improvement, and risk management within a supportive executive and clinical leadership structure. You will play a key role in shaping models of care, embedding evidence-based practice, and supporting staff development and succession planning.

WHO ARE WE?

The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network offers opportunities across our sites, from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda, wrapping all the way around our metropolitan areas (position based in Kingscote). We pride ourselves on providing exceptional care to all our consumers, residents, their families, and community. Our mission is to ensure that you always receive the best quality, safe, consistent, collaborative care and always with kindness. We do this by maintaining exceptional levels of care at all times supported by systems and processes that assure us of quality and safety of our staff and those we serve.

WHERE AND HOW YOU WILL WORK

Kingscote is the largest town on Kangaroo Island, offering a close-knit community, stunning coastal landscapes, and a relaxed island lifestyle. With essential services, local amenities, and abundant recreational opportunities, it’s ideal for professionals seeking a unique work-life balance in a scenic and welcoming environment. Its vibrant local healthcare, education, and tourism sectors provide rewarding career opportunities while living in this picturesque setting. For more information Discover Kingscote

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Are you an experienced Registered Nurse with demonstrated leadership capability in aged care or a similar clinical setting?
• Do you have the ability to lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, person-centred care?
• Are you confident in managing workforce planning, performance, quality improvement and risk processes within a complex health service?
• Do you communicate effectively, resolve conflict professionally, and foster a positive, accountable team culture?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions – then read on…

HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?

• Provide strategic and operational leadership to ensure high-quality, person-centred aged care services and positive resident outcomes.
• Lead and coordinate clinical care delivery, ensuring alignment with professional standards, policies, and evidence-based practice.
• Manage workforce planning, recruitment, rostering, performance management, and resource allocation within the corporate framework.
• Drive quality improvement, risk management, incident review and compliance with accreditation standards.
• Foster a culture of learning, accountability and collaboration, mentoring staff and supporting ongoing professional development.

WHAT WILL WE OFFER YOU IN RETURN?

At BHFLHN, not only will you be working in an environment surrounded by beautiful scenery and nature we see your work here as not just as a job, but an opportunity to extend, progress or consolidate your career with us. We therefore offer you opportunities to be supported in the following ways:

• Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year Click here more information
• Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities.
• Support for you and your family via our free Employee Assistance Program.
• Health and Fitness Benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to BHFLHN staff and their families.

WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW/WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS?

Working in this environment, it is important to us that we only employ people with the upmost integrity and commitment to serving the South Australian community and its visitors to the highest possible standards. To ensure that we meet that commitment there are a few checks that you will be required to undertake. These are detailed on the Role Description, but are likely to include the following:

• You will need to be immunised. Please contact the Enquiries Person for this position if you have any queries. Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy. Further information is in the application for to help guide you. 
• You will need to undergo employment screening, what you require is also on the front page of the Role Description.
• You must be registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and hold, or be eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We employ people as diverse as the clients we support and the environments we work in. At BHFLHN we pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees and therefore we encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community. We continually look for ways to support and promote diversity and flexible ways of working so please let us know what interests you. 

NEED TO RELOCATE?

Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. See what is available here: Relocation support | SA Health. Find out more about working in the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, and see what it looks like to work and live in regional Australia at: https://movetomore.com.au/

HELP IS HERE!

Please refer to all the details in the Role Description below (job ref: 927254), or reach out to Monique Govan, Administration Supervisor on Phone: (08) 8553 4269 or via E-mail: monique.govan@sa.gov.au

To find out what you need to apply, and what is required to be offered a role, please refer to the Applicant Checklist BHFLHN Applicant Checklist.pdf. Please also click here for our Australian applicant guidelines

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DON’T HESITATE! Applications Close on Wednesday 11th March 2026 at 11:55PM

Eligibility: Open to Everyone

927254 RN/M3 Role Description

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