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Palliative Services Nurse Consultant: Providing Care and Dignity

As a Palliative Services Nurse Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in providing exceptional palliative care services to patients and their families. In this rewarding position, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those facing life-limiting illnesses, ensuring they receive the utmost support, compassion, and dignity during their most vulnerable times.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Southern Adelaide Palliative Services (SAPS) Community Manager & RAP Nursing Director, this role is responsible for providing compassionate and comprehensive palliative care services to patients and their families, ensuring their needs are met with the utmost dignity and support. Duties for the role will include:

• Provide direct, expert clinical nursing/midwifery care, select and implement different therapeutic interventions, provide individual case management to a defined population of patients/clients and evaluate progress,
• Implement and co-ordinate within span of control, processes for quality improvement and continuity within corporate risk management and nursing/midwifery professional practice frameworks,
• Contribute expert nursing/midwifery assessment and advice to local clinical teams to achieve integrated nursing/midwifery care within a risk management framework.

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,
• Registered Nurse/Midwife with at least 3 years, full time equivalent, post registration experience,
• Demonstrated competence in palliative care nursing practice in accordance with the relevant palliative care standards – Palliative Care Australia,
• Experience in the supervision of students, enrolled nurses and less experienced registered nurses and or midwives.

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Maria Garcia, RAP Casual Pool Clinical Support Nurse, (08) 8404 2657, Maria.Garcia2@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Wednesday 2 July 2025

Attachments:

• 907529- SAPS Nurse Consultant 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: 907529