Clinical Nurse / Registered Nurse Emergency Department
SA Health
Job reference: 936598 Location: 5251 - MOUNT BARKER Job status: Ongoing Eligibility: Open to Everyone
This position is multi‑classed as either RN/M1 or RN/M2C and the appointment classification will be determined by qualifications and experience.
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING? This role provides proficient, person-centred emergency nursing/midwifery care and/or case management within a fast-paced emergency clinical setting, ensuring timely assessment, prioritisation, and monitoring of patients in accordance with clinical urgency. The position involves implementing and evaluating emergency care plans, supporting rapid therapeutic interventions, and working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary emergency team to achieve safe and effective patient outcomes. It also includes oversight of care delivery within the shift, supporting efficient patient flow through the emergency department, and responding promptly to changing clinical conditions and service demands. In addition to direct emergency care responsibilities, the role contributes to the coordination and improvement of emergency service delivery, including supporting clinical protocols, change processes, and quality improvement initiatives. The position plays an important role in education by supporting students and junior clinicians through supervision, teaching, and fostering a strong learning culture within the high-acuity environment. It also involves participation in audit, research, and evaluation activities relevant to emergency care, while providing shift-by-shift clinical leadership, acting as a key resource within the team, and ensuring continuity, safety, and high-quality care across the emergency department. 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. 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 Mount Barker, located 40 minutes from Adelaide in the Adelaide Hills, is a perfect blend of natural beauty, local heritage, and gourmet food. Key highlights include hiking the panoramic Mount Barker Summit, exploring the picturesque Laratinga Wetlands, riding the historic Steam Ranger Heritage Railway, and visiting local wineries and the Saturday farmers' market. Visit Mt Barker here.
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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:
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:
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: 936598), or reach out to Sheree Gale, Associate Nurse Unit Manager on Phone: 08 8391 1777 or via E-mail: sheree.gale@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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