BloodSafe Nurse Consultant

BloodSafe Nurse Consultant – SALHN

Southern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join the BloodSafe program as a part-time, ongoing Nurse Consultant based in Adelaide's southern metro region. In this role, you'll provide specialist guidance on transfusion safety and patient blood management across SALHN, working alongside clinical and multidisciplinary teams to drive meaningful quality improvement. If you have a background in transfusion medicine and the confidence to influence practice at a network level, this is a genuine opportunity to make your expertise count.

About the role: 

Reporting within the Clinical Governance Unit, this role is responsible for providing specialist consultation, education, and quality improvement support across SALHN to ensure safe transfusion practice and compliance with patient blood management standards.

Duties for the role will include:

• Integrate contemporary information and evidence with personal experience to support the decision making, innovative thinking and objective analysis that is expected at this level e.g. Expert clinical knowledge underpins and informs their ability to support, lead and/or provide expert clinical care to improve and optimise nursing/midwifery care,
• Provide leadership in collaboration with others in the areas of safety, quality and efficiency of blood and blood product usage,
• 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 convey information to staff,
• Assist in implementation and evaluation of systems and processes that improve the provision of care across SALHN,
• 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

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 leadership skills including highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Registered Nurse with at least 3 years post registration experience,
• Previous experience in a self-directed position,
• Proven experience in audit, quality improvement processes, evidence-based practice, research, protocol development and / or education

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: SALHN Clinical Governance Mailbox, (08) 8204 6104, health.SALHNClinicalGovernance@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 27 September 2026

Attachments:

• BloodSafe Nurse Consultant- Role Description
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• 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: 950584