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Southern Adelaide Palliative Service (SAPS) provides specialist palliative care to people living in Southern Adelaide. A range of services are offered to support patients and the important people in their lives. We are seeking a compassionate and experienced Nurse Consultant – Palliative Care to join our dedicated multidisciplinary team. In this rewarding role within our SAPS community and consult liaison teams, you will provide high-quality, patient-centred care to individuals with life-limiting illnesses, supporting their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. 

About the role: 

Reporting to the Manager, Community Palliative Care Service in this role your clinical expertise and holistic approach will help ensure comfort, dignity, and respect for patients, and the important people in their lives, during challenging times. Employees classified at this level are experts within their area and stream of practice and have a significant degree of autonomy and decision making.

Duties for the role will include:

• Specialist care coordination for patients and families in the outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Integrate contemporary information and evidence with personal experience to support the decision making, innovative thinking and objective analysis that is expected at this level e.g Expert clinical knowledge underpins and informs their ability to support, lead and provide expert clinical care to improve and optimise patient outcomes.
• Provide direct, expert clinical nursing care, select and implement different therapeutic interventions, provide individual case management to a defined population of patients/clients and evaluate progress.
• Contribute expert nursing assessment and advice to local clinical teams to achieve integrated nursing care within a risk management framework.
• Provide structured education and mentorship to peers through evidence-based practice frameworks and clinical governance standards to strengthen clinical capability and ensure high-quality, patient-centred care.
• Effective complex discharge planning / hospital avoidance through the provision of education, equipment and referral.

About you:

• Effective leadership skills including highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to foster a workplace environment that develops staff potential.
• Registered Nurse with at least 3 years, full time equivalent, post registration experience.
• Ability to engage relevant clinical teams to foster ongoing communication and optimise patient care plans to achieve their goals of care.
• Experience in the supervision of students, enrolled nurses and less experienced registered nurses.
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet set timelines.

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 Monday the 9th of March 2026.

Attachments:

• 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: 931037