Nurse Unit Manager

• Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network, Berri
• RN/M3 | Full Time Contract | Ongoing
• Salary:$125,183 - $130,779 p.a
• Eligibility: Open to Everyone

Join Our Team as a Nurse Unit Manager – Patient Flow Coordinator – Lead Patient Care and Service Excellence

Are you a dynamic nursing leader ready to make a difference in patient flow and care coordination? This role offers the opportunity to lead, inspire, and support your team while ensuring high-quality, person-centred care.

About the Role:

As a Nurse Unit Manager – Patient Flow Coordinator, you will use your clinical knowledge and leadership skills to oversee patient care delivery, ensuring continuity and quality of outcomes.

You will provide pivotal line management, coordination, and leadership of nursing, midwifery, and multi-disciplinary team activities. In this role, you will accept accountability for the outcomes of clinical practice, address inconsistencies between practice and policy, and drive service improvement.

Central to your work will be fostering a positive team culture, developing staff performance, and creating an environment that supports safe, effective, and high-quality patient care.

What We're Looking For:

• 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.
• Registered Nurse and or Midwife with at least 3 years post registration experience.
• Demonstrated competence in the relevant area of nursing and/or midwifery practice in accordance with the relevant standards.
• Experience in management and leadership roles.
• Experience in the supervision of students, enrolled nurses and less experienced registered nurses and or midwives.

About Us

The Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network, called RMCLHN for short, supports more than 70,000 people living in country South Australia in the towns and surrounds of Renmark, Paringa, Berri, Barmera, Waikerie, Loxton, Pinnaroo, Lameroo, Karoonda, Mannum, Murray Bridge, Tailem Bend, Meningie, Tintinara and Coonalpyn. Click here for more information about working for RMCLHN.

• We will provide support, both personally and professionally giving you access to a range of education and training opportunities designed to enhance your role.
• Offer flexible work arrangements to better balance work, personal life, and family commitments.
• Provide an inclusive workplace culture that values diversity, ensuring every employee feels a sense of belonging and safety.
• Offer salary sacrifice benefits, watch a short video about what salary packaging is.
• Provide Relocation Support, where applicable. More information available from SA Health Careers - Relocation support.
• Looking for a change in scenery? – Nursing & Midwifery

Applicant Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working 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 appropriate immunisation requirements:

• DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
• Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A

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: 913426

Enquiries

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Riverland General Hospital Nursing

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Application Closing Date

Thursday 11th September PM

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