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Registered Nurse – Anaesthetics & PACU | Casual Pool 

Join the Anaesthetics and Post Anaesthesia Care Unit Casual Pool at Noarlunga Hospital, part of the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. This casual position suits experienced perioperative nurses with a minimum of three years in anaesthetics and/or PACU who are looking for flexible shifts within a skilled and supportive public health team.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, this role is responsible for delivering safe, evidence-based nursing care across anaesthetic and post anaesthesia recovery settings, working collaboratively with the perioperative team to support positive patient outcomes throughout the surgical journey.

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,
• Recognising, responding and appropriately escalating clinical deterioration, and provide complex care at the bedside of the perioperative patient.
• Recognise, respond and report other incidents within the department.
• Participate in quality improvement activities that contribute to patient/client safety, risk minimisation and safe work activities within the practice setting,
• 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,
• Demonstrated competence in Anaesthetic and/or PACU nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards
• Ability to stay calm under pressure, demonstrate appropriate professional behaviours, open to feedback and initiate self reflection
• Current ALS trained,
• Minimum 3 years demonstrated clinical experience in position applied for (anaesthetics and/or PACU)

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Haylee Logan, NHS Nurse Unit Manager, 0432301629, Haylee.Logan@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 20 September 2026

Attachments:

• PACU- 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: 949275