SA Health
Job reference: 936442
Location: 5168 - NOARLUNGA CENTRE
Job status: Ongoing
Eligibility: Open to Everyone

Experienced Scrub Scout - Join Noarlunga Hospital's Surgical Excellence Team

Join our surgical team at Noarlunga Hospital as a Scrub Scout, where you will maintain sterile environments and support life-changing procedures in our operating theatres. This full-time, ongoing position offers the opportunity to work alongside skilled surgeons and anaesthetists while ensuring optimal patient outcomes through your clinical expertise. Bring your demonstrated scrub scout experience to SA Health and contribute to exceptional healthcare delivery in Adelaide's southern region.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, this role is responsible for maintaining sterile technique in operating theatres while anticipating and providing surgeons with required instruments and supplies during procedures.

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,
• Participate in evaluative research activities within the practice setting

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,
• Effective communication skills including, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
• Demonstrated competence in Perioperative scrub/scout nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Minimum demonstrated ongoing clinical scrub scout experience

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Susan Allen, Registered Nurse, 0882047229, Susan.Allen@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 10 May 2026

Attachments:

• Noarlunga Hospital Scrub Scout- 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: 936442

Applications close: 10/05/2026 11:55 PM

Flexibility Statement
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.