SA Health
Job reference: 926365
Location: 5168 - NOARLUNGA CENTRE
Job status: Ongoing
Eligibility: Open to Everyone

Build Nursing Excellence - Clinical Nurse Educator, Rehabilitation, Aged Care and Palliative Care.

Opportunity with SA Health

Join SA Health as a Clinical Nurse Educator within the Division of Rehabilitation, Aged Care and Palliative Care (RAP) where you will educate and mentor assistants in nursing (AIN's) and Nurses (Enrolled and Registered) while shaping the future of healthcare delivery. This ongoing full-time position offers the opportunity to support evidence-based educational programs and guide the next generation of nursing professionals in a collaborative, team focused environment. Be part of South Australia's largest healthcare provider and advance your career while making a meaningful impact on nursing excellence across the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN).

About the role: 

Working across the three main SALHN sites and reporting to the Nurse Educator, this role is responsible for facilitating clinical learning experiences to ensure that nurses develop the essential skills and confidence needed to provide exceptional patient care.

Duties for the role will include:

• Integrating contemporary information and evidence to support decision making, innovative thinking and objective analysis, lead and/or provide clinical care,
• develop and guide appropriate clinical education, and/or provide management activities that contribute to improve and optimise nursing practice,
• Use available information systems: to inform decision making, to implement and co-ordinate processes for quality improvement, to monitor and analyse incidents and accidents, to ensure quality and safety is not compromised, to evaluate outcomes, and to convey information to staff,
• Contribute to the development of, implementation of, and monitoring of corporate policies and processes, and lead in their area of expertise,
• Management of resources with due diligence,
• Implement and coordinate within the span of control, education for quality improvement and continuity within corporate risk management and nursing professional practice frameworks,
• Hold a contemporary professional practice portfolio containing evidence of postgraduate qualifications, learning, and practice experience that underpin a demonstrable application of knowledge and skills commensurate with the level and type of practice expected of the role,
• Ensure mechanisms are in place to support ongoing education where work and learning are integrated

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,
• Effective communication, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet set timelines, whilst working under minimal supervision,
• Registered Nurse with at least 3 years, full-time equivalent, post-registration experience

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 Sunday 26 April 2026

Attachments:

• RN2 Clinical Nurse Educator- 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: 926365

Applications close: 26/04/2026 11:55 PM

Flexibility Statement
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.