Associate Nurse Unit Manager

Where Clinical Skill Meets Leadership - ANUM Noarlunga Theatres

As Associate Nurse Unit Manager, you'll bring specialist theatre expertise to a unit where clinical excellence and team cohesion directly shape patient outcomes across Operating Theatre services.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Nurse Unit Manager, you will support the day-to-day operational and clinical leadership of Noarlunga Theatres. This is a hands-on leadership role that keeps you close to patient care while driving standards across the unit.

Duties for the role will include:

• Lead and participate in scrub and scout functions across Operating Theatres, maintaining safe instrument management, count integrity, and sterile field standards in line with SALHN perioperative protocols
• Provide visible, floor-level clinical leadership during theatre sessions — supporting staff in real time, managing escalations, and ensuring patient safety remains central to every procedure
• Oversee daily theatre coordination including list management, equipment and instrument readiness, and communication with surgeons, anaesthetists, and perioperative support staff to keep sessions running efficiently
• Support the recruitment, orientation, and ongoing development of theatre nursing staff, identifying learning opportunities and contributing to competency assessment and skills progression within the team
• Drive quality improvement and participate in clinical audit, incident review, and accreditation processes, embedding a culture of continuous improvement across the Noarlunga Theatres unit

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.
• Registered Nurse/Midwife with at least 3 years, full time equivalent, post registration experience.
• Demonstrated clinical experience in perioperative scrub and scout roles, including at Clinical Nurse or ANUM level.
• Specialist knowledge and hands-on experience in Urology and Gynaecology theatre procedures.
• Experience in the leadership and direction of student nurses, enrolled nurses and less experienced registered nurses.
• 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.

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 6th December 2026

Attachments:

• Associate Nurse Unit Manager - Operating Theatre Suite NHS 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: 955365