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Make Every Child Count - Clinical Nurse Child Health | SALHN

Join Southern Adelaide Local Health Network as an RN2 Clinical Nurse specialising in child health, where you'll conduct essential health checks and developmental assessments for children across Adelaide's southern communities. This part-time contract position runs until November 2026 and requires child and family health qualifications to deliver comprehensive care during crucial early development years. Make a lasting impact on young lives while working with a supportive multidisciplinary team in a flexible role that values your clinical expertise.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Clinical Services Manager, this role is responsible for the provision of a culturally appropriate, comprehensive primary health care to Aboriginal families and children. This includes comprehensive health assessment, providing health education to families and child clients, health promotion, coordination of care and liaison with other disciplines and external relevant services.

Duties for the role will include:

• Provide proficient, child and family centred care including preventive nursing care through primary health screening and provision of scheduled childhood immunisation, health education and promotion, and monitoring of growth and development and appropriate referral to specialists' services,
• Assists and supports the Regional Manager Clinical Services or equivalent in management, clinical, and education activities,
• Act to resolve local and/or immediate nursing/midwifery care or service delivery problems,
• Participate in clinical auditing, clinical trials and/or evaluative research,
• Integrate advanced theoretical knowledge, evidence from a range of sources 

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,
• Utilise high level verbal and written communication skills to effectively work with, and resolve issues and conflict with people with diverse value systems, cultural differences and special needs, including client family, multi-disciplinary health professionals, other organisations and providers, and the community,
• Demonstrated competence in child health nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Experience in the leadership and direction of student nurses, enrolled nurses and less experienced registered nurses,
• Significant experience in working in a Primary Health Care/community health setting and multidisciplinary
  setting,
• Must have child and family health qualifications to be able to complete child health checks and developmental assessments

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Vendula Corston, Clinical Services Manager, 0404 138 013, vendula.corston@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 26 October 2025

Attachments:

• RN2 Clinical Nurse - Child Health- 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: 918255