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Specialise in Anaesthetic Nursing - Flinders Medical Centre Opportunity

Join our anaesthetics team at Flinders Medical Centre as a part-time Registered Nurse, where you will provide expert perioperative care in a leading healthcare facility. This ongoing position offers the perfect opportunity to specialise in anaesthetic nursing whilst working alongside experienced professionals in Adelaide's southern suburbs. We welcome applications from nurses with prior anaesthetic experience, as well as motivated candidates ready to develop their skills in this rewarding specialty area.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, this role is responsible for providing comprehensive perioperative nursing care to patients undergoing anaesthetic procedures, including pre-operative assessment, intraoperative support, and post-anaesthetic recovery monitoring.

Duties for the role will include:

• Assess individual patient/client needs, plan, implement and/or coordinate appropriate service delivery from a range of accepted options including other disciplines or agencies,
• Provide direct person centred nursing care and/or individual case management to patients/clients on a shift by shift basis in a defined clinical area with increasing autonomy over time,
• Participate in quality improvement activities that contribute to patient/client safety, risk minimisation and safe work activities within the practice setting,
• Provide ward/team leader/coordination as required on a shift by shift basis. (A team leader is a RN assigned responsibility for supporting staff and coordinating patient/client care),
• Provide health promotion and education, to patients/clients or groups and carers to improve the health outcomes of individual

About you:

• 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,
• Effective communication skills including, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
• Ability to prioritise workload,
• Demonstrated competence in Anaesthetic nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards, 
• Applicants with prior experience in Anaesthetic nursing preferred

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Cathie Hashemi, Nurse Unit Manager, (08) 8204 6517, Cathie.Hashemi@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 3 May 2026

Attachments:

• Registered Nurse Anaesthetics- 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: 936307