Nurse Educator

Job no: 915532

Work type: Part time

Location: Adelaide Metro Southern

Categories: Medical, Nursing/Midwifery, Public Health

• Southern Adelaide Local Health Network – Noarlunga Hospital & Flinders Medical Centre– Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Education and Research
• Salary $125,183 - $130,779 p.a. (Pro Rata) RN3| Ongoing Part Time Contract, 20 Hours Per Week

Nurse Educator - Medical Division | Southern Adelaide Local Health Network

This ongoing part-time Nurse Educator position offers the unique opportunity to drive clinical excellence across two premier healthcare sites - Flinders Medical Centre and Noarlunga Health Services - within the Medical Division portfolio. You'll mentor nursing staff, develop innovative education programmes, and shape best-practice standards whilst contributing to improved patient outcomes for over 350,000 South Australians. Join Southern Adelaide Local Health Network and advance your career in a supportive environment where your expertise directly impacts healthcare delivery and professional development across our trusted health network.

About the role:

Reporting to the Nursing Director for the Centre for Nursing & Midwifery Education and Research (CNMER), this role is responsible for using clinical knowledge and experience to provide a corporate education support service to nursing practice, which may include but not be limited to areas such as the provision of a range of education, training, learning experiences and materials.

Duties for the role will include:

• Integrate contemporary information and evidence with personal experience to support the decision making, innovative thinking and objective analysis that are expected at this level e.g. expert clinical knowledge underpins and informs the ability to support, lead and/or provide expert clinical care; develop and guide appropriate clinical education, and/or provide management activities that contribute to improve and optimise nursing/midwifery practice,
• Use available information systems: to inform decision making, to implement and co-ordinate processes for quality improvement, to monitor and analyse incidents and accidents, to ensure quality and safety is not compromised, to evaluate outcomes and convey information to staff,
• Implement and co-ordinate within span of control, education for quality improvement and continuity within corporate risk management and nursing/midwifery professional practice frameworks,
• Identifying hazards, assessing risks and implementing, monitoring and maintaining hazard control measures

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,
• Holds, or working towards tertiary qualification/s in Education – (minimum Cert IV, Training and Assessment, or equivalent),
• Innovation, creativity and flexibility that can be applied to an education settings within healthcare,
• Ability to prepare and undertake presentations of a high standard in a range of educational settings to both community and professional groups,
• Ability to develop, coordinate and deliver education programs and conduct appropriate evaluations of the programs,
• Demonstrated competence in a range of acute care nursing practice settings, in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Demonstrated ability in blended education delivery utilising a Learning Management System

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: CNMER Office Manager, ,

Application Closing Date:11.55 pm Sunday 21 September 2025

Attachments:

• Nurse Midwife Educator- 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: 915532

Advertised: 04 Sep 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time

Applications close: 21 Sep 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time