Assistant In Nursing

**Job no**: 874782
**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**: $28.94 - $29.79 per hour + 25% loading** - AIN - Casual, up to 26 December 2025**

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical (both elective and emergency), obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, mental health, oncology, geriatric medicine, palliative care and rehabilitation. Increasingly these are provided across a range of hospital, community and home-based settings.

NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

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 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.

**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 the Role**:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as an Assistant in Nursing.

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 the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (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.

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