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

Join Our Team as Nurse Unit Manager – Residential Aged Care – Lead with Excellence Across Care, Compliance, and Coordination

Are you a senior nursing professional passionate about aged care leadership? We’re seeking a highly skilled Nurse Unit Manager – Residential Aged Care to oversee and support key nursing and management functions that ensure safe, high-quality care and compliance across residential services. In this critical leadership role, you’ll influence practice standards, resource management, and team culture across the aged care environment.

About the Role:

As Nurse Unit Manager – Residential Aged Care, you will use your clinical expertise and leadership skills to support both Nurse/Midwife Unit Managers and Nursing Directors across a broad range of responsibilities. These include staffing methodologies, recruitment, human resource management, financial administration, ACFI funding management, resident admissions, accreditation processes, and risk and resource management.

You will be accountable for nursing management outcomes, ensuring alignment between policy and practice, and promoting a safe, positive, and high-functioning workplace culture. This role may involve overseeing specific portfolios, managing aged care programs or services, or coordinating projects and research aimed at improving resident outcomes. You will also provide after-hours leadership across the health service, overseeing staff allocation, patient flow, and significant operational events in consultation with executive leadership.

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/Midwife with at least 3 years post registration experience.
• Demonstrated competence in the relevant area of nursing practice in accordance with the appropriate standards of practice.
• Demonstrated experience in management and leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience in managing projects within an aged care setting.

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? – Aged Care Nursing

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)
• DHS National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Worker Check 
• 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: 907843

Enquiries

Lizzie Platten
Director of Nursing and Midwifery Loxton Hospital
Phone: 0419 817 538
E-mail: elizabeth.platten@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date

Tuesday 15th July 2025 - 11.55 PM

Attachments

907843 RN/M3 Role Description.pdf

JCS+RegisteredNurse+final.pdf

About Loxton Factsheet.pdf

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