Registered Nurse - Acute Care of the Elderly (ACE) (multiple positions)

Job no: 947203
Work type: Full time
Location: Adelaide Metro Northern
Categories: Nursing/Midwifery

- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Modbury Hospital - MODBURY SA 5092
- Salary:$79,381 - 108,311 p.a. plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits - RN1
- Temporary Full-Time up to 30 July 2027 (Multiple Positions)

About the Role:

Lyell McEwin Hospital is one of South Australia's busiest metropolitan health services, and its Acute Care of the Elderly unit is where skilled nursing genuinely changes lives. If you're a Registered Nurse who finds meaning in caring for older patients through complex, acute presentations, these full-time contract roles — running until 30 July 2027 — offer a substantial opportunity to deepen your clinical expertise within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

What You'll Be Doing

Embedded in the ACE unit at Lyell McEwin Health Service, you will deliver high-quality, patient-centred nursing care to older adults presenting with acute and often multifaceted conditions. Working within a dedicated multidisciplinary team, your key responsibilities will include:

- Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating individualised care for acutely unwell elderly patients
- Collaborating with medical, allied health, and support staff to coordinate safe, timely patient journeys
- Recognising and responding to clinical deterioration using established escalation frameworks
- Contributing to a ward culture that upholds patient dignity, family involvement, and evidence-based practice

What You'll Bring

- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (AHPRA)
- Demonstrated experience in an acute inpatient setting, ideally with older adult or general medical populations
- Sound clinical assessment skills and confidence managing complex, co-morbid presentations
- Ability to work effectively within a large public health network and adapt to the pace of a busy metro hospital
- A commitment to person-centred,



culturally safe care consistent with SA Health's Care Always values
- Understanding of, or willingness to develop skills in, comprehensive geriatric assessment principles

To be eligible for this position, you must beRegistered 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.

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

You will be joining a energetic and expanding Local Health Network that is committed to delivering contemporary, innovative and high-quality health services within modern facilities.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

About Adelaide:

Adelaide is consistently recognised as a city that artfully combines its compact charm and world‑class cuisine with picturesque nature escapes. Ranked one of the worlds “Most Liveable Cities” and “Most Beautiful Cities”, Adelaide provides something for everyone combining a wonderful mix of nature with nearby beaches, rolling hills and wildlife and culinary delights with fine dining restaurants, award‑winning cafes, bustling food markets and booming boutique bars. Events like the LIV Golf, SANTOS Tour Down Under, Adelaide Fringe and the Adelaide Cabaret Festival add extra appeal to living here.

About Us:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide.

NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediat

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