Assistant in Nursing

**Job no**: 909715 **Work type**: Casual **Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern **Categories**: Nursing/Midwifery - **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin and Modbury Hospitals - Elizabeth Vale and Modbury**: - **Salary**: $29.81 - $30.69 per hour + 25% loading**plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits**- AIN**: - **Casual, up to 25 December 2026** **About the Role**: An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as an Assistant in Nursing. The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia. Working as an Assistant in Nursing will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture. You will need to be driven, dynamic and person centred with a desire to deliver excellent health care to improve the health and wellbeing of our consumers. You will thrive working collaboratively with an inter-disciplinary team to partner with consumers, displaying NALHN values. This position will enable you to have the opportunity to work whilst you are studying and gain valuable nursing experience and skills as a result. It will allow you to learn within a supportive team environment and grow your clinical skills. As an Assistant in Nursing, you will support Enrolled and Registered Nurses in the delivery of general patient/client care and undertake basic nursing duties that would otherwise have been performed by an Enrolled or Registered Nurse. Some feedback from current AIN's working in NALHN includes: - "Being an AIN has been an immense privilege, it has allowed me to expand on my clinical knowledge and train under amazing and passionate nurses, my experiences with NALHN will make me a better nurse." - "Working as an AIN has allowed me to build great rapport with my nursing colleagues and other health professionals, which has aided me in providing person centred care." - "Working as an AIN at LMH was a fantastic opportunity. It allowed me to observe, merge and develop my skills in an acute setting at NALHN. The experience was invaluable in understanding patient care and clinical practices, and it significantly enhanced my professional growth." In this role you will be accountable for your own actions. To be eligible for this position, you must be enrolled as a student in an undergraduate program in nursing and have completed any training required by the employer relevant to the safe and competent performance of work at this level. Applicants who are in the 2nd or 3rd year of an undergraduate Nursing Degree or final year of Graduate Entry (Flinders Uni) or Masters of Clinical Nursing (Adelaide Uni) are eligible. **About You**: Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Nursing Student looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team. In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role. **About Us**: The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality medical services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care. Recently, NALHN has upgraded its facilities and plans to expand further. The network provides primary health care with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management. With nearly 6,500 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes. At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows. **Our Local Health Network Sites and Services**: Lyell McEwin Hospital **-** The major hospital in the north and north-east for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics and outpatient services. Modbury Hospital **-** A general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care. **Benefits of working at NALHN**: From salary packaging to flexible working arran