Associate Nurse Unit Manager

**Job no**: 903280
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Nursing/Midwifery
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin Hospital - Elizabeth Vale**:

- **Salary**: $103,353 - $110,497 p.a.**plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits** **- RN2A**:

- **Ongoing Full-Time**

**About the Role**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking a passionate and committed Registered Nurse to join our team within the Diabetes Service as an Associate Nurse Unit Manager.

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia.

As an Associate Nurse Unit Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading and supporting a team of nurses who are dedicated to providing high-quality care to patients with diabetes. Your responsibilities will include:

- overseeing the daily operations of the diabetes service unit, ensuring efficient and effective service delivery
- providing clinical leadership and support to nursing staff, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development
- collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement patient-centred care plans
- ensuring compliance with relevant policies, procedures, and guidelines to maintain the highest standards of care
- identifying opportunities for service improvement and implementing initiatives to enhance patient outcomes

To be eligible for this position, you must be registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate.

**About You**:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Registered Nurse 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.

Excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills are essential, along with a commitment to continuous professional development.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

**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.

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

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.

**Check(s)**:

- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)

**Immunisation Risk for this position is**-** Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)**

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: 903280**

**Enquiries**:
Brooke Frith

Nurse Unit Manager, Diabetes Service

Phone: (08) 8182 9296

**Application Closing Date**:
6 June 2025 **-** 11.55PM

**Role Description and Further Information**:
**Advertised**: 23 May 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 06 Jun 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time