We are looking for a skilled and compassionate Clinical Nurse to join the Palliative Care Team and provide high-quality, patient-centred nursing care. This role combines strong clinical practice with accountability for care delivery, including oversight of delegated tasks and support for less experienced staff.
Predominantly clinical, in this position you will also play an active role in shaping how the service runs day to day. You will support the Nurse Unit Manager and Palliative Care Nurse Consultant with team coordination and contribute to quality improvement activities. There is also the opportunity to be involved in audits, research and service-wide projects, giving you the chance to influence practice, support change, and help build a strong, positive learning culture.
The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network runs from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda, wrapping all the way around our metropolitan areas (this position is in Mount Barker). We pride ourselves on providing exceptional care to all our consumers, residents, their families, and community. Our mission is to ensure that you always receive the best quality, safe, consistent, collaborative care and always with kindness. We do this by maintaining exceptional levels of care at all times supported by systems and processes that assure us of quality and safety of our staff and those we serve.
WHERE AND HOW YOU WILL WORK
Mount Barker is a fast-growing regional centre in the Adelaide Hills, known for its natural beauty, strong community, and modern amenities. Just 30 minutes from Adelaide, it offers diverse job opportunities in health, education, retail, trades, and more, making it ideal for professionals seeking a great work-life balance in a vibrant and scenic environment. For more information Discover Mount Barker
- Are you a compassionate, emotionally resilient clinician with the ability to provide calm, person-centred care in emotionally challenging end-of-life situations, while maintaining professional boundaries and reflective practice.
- Are you a strong clinical practitioner with sound symptom management skills and the ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to support comfort, dignity, and quality of life for patients and families?
- Are you confident taking initiative on shift, solving problems and supporting the smooth flow of care?
- Do you enjoy mentoring others and contributing to a positive learning culture within your team?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions – then read on….
- Deliver person-centred nursing care, including assessment, care planning, clinical interventions and evaluation of patient outcomes.
- Coordinate and monitor care delivery to ensure safe, consistent and responsive services for patients, clients and their families.
- Provide shift-based support, clinical guidance and act as a resource person for the nursing/midwifery team.
- Support the Nurse/Midwife Unit Manager with clinical activities, education, service coordination and quality improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to teaching, mentoring, audits, research and projects that improve clinical practice and patient care outcomes.
WHAT WILL WE OFFER YOU IN RETURN?
At BHFLHN, not only will you be working in an environment surrounded by beautiful scenery and nature we see your work here as not just as a job, but an opportunity to extend, progress or consolidate your career with us. We therefore offer you opportunities to be supported in the following ways:
- Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year Click here more information
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Support for you and your family via our free Employee Assistance Program
- Health and Fitness Benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to BHFLHN staff and their families.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW/WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS?
Working in this environment, it is important to us that we only employ people with the upmost integrity and commitment to serving the South Australian community and its visitors to the highest possible standards. To ensure that we meet that commitment there are a few checks that you will be required to undertake. These are detailed on the Role Description, but are likely to include the following:
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
We employ people as diverse as the clients we support and the environments we work in. At BHFLHN we pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees and therefore we encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community. We continually look for ways to support and promote diversity and flexible ways of working so please let us know what interests you.
Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. See what is available here: Relocation support | SA Health. Find out more about working in the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, and see what it looks like to work and live in regional Australia at: https://movetomore.com.au/
Please refer to all the details in the Role Description below (Job ref: 945847), or reach out to Jill McKennall Nurse Unit Manager on 0400730586 or [email protected]
. Please also here for our Australian applicant guidelines
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DON’T HESITATE! Applications Close on 20 August 2026 11:55PM
Eligibility: Open to everyone
Role Description - Clinical Nurse Palliative Care
