Nurse Consultant - Chronic Liver Disease

Join our Hepatology Team

Flinders Medical Centre is seeking an experienced Nurse Consultant to join the Chronic Liver Disease team within the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN). This is an opportunity to apply your specialist clinical knowledge in a service that directly shapes patient outcomes across Adelaide's southern communities.

About the role:

Reporting to the the Head of Unit Hepatology and Transplant Medicine, this role is integral to providing clinical nursing expertise for a chronic care program for patients with advanced chronic liver disease/cirrhosis.

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 are 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 direct, expert clinical nursing/midwifery care, select and implement different therapeutic interventions, provide individual case management to a defined population of patients/clients and evaluate progress
• Contribute expert nursing/midwifery assessment and advice to local clinical teams to achieve integrated nursing/midwifery care within a risk management framework.
• Effective complex discharge planning / hospital avoidance through the provision of education, equipment and referral.
• Contributing to the development of an integrated team approach and culture which is highly responsive to the needs of our consumers.

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.
• 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.
• Registered Nurse and or Midwife with at least 3 years post registration experience
• Demonstrated experience and competence in Chronic Disease Management
• Ensure mechanisms are in place to support ongoing education where work and learning are integrated.
• Apply and share expert clinical knowledge to improve patient/client care outcomes.
• Contribute clinical expertise to learning environments, which may include individual/team capability development and/or post registration clinical teaching.

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Rachel Wundke, Hepatology Nurse, Hepatology & Transplant Medicine, 0466 777 873, [email protected]

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Wednesday 8 July 2026

Attachments:

• Nurse Consultant Chronic Liver Disease 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: 942091