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Nurse Aid Australia is a clinically serious organisation. We work with participants who have high-intensity clinical needs — and we are looking for people who want their skills genuinely used, developed, and respected.

This is not a casual shift-filling environment. If you are motivated by clinical challenge, ongoing training, and direct access to leadership in a growing organisation — read on.

Who We Are Looking For
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Registered & Enrolled Nurses
AHPRA-registered, motivated by clinical complexity in a community setting
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Complex Care Support Workers
Qualified, reliable, and ready to be trained in specific clinical procedures
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Behaviour Support Practitioners
NDIS-registered or working toward registration, experienced in complex BSP
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Intake Coordinators
Organised, clinical-minded, confident managing a referral pipeline
Why Work Here

What Working at Nurse Aid Actually Looks Like

Not a list of values from a wall poster. An honest description of what you will find here.

Clinically Serious. Operationally Direct. Growing Fast.

Nurse Aid Australia supports participants with the highest-acuity clinical needs in the disability sector — forensic transitions, complex psychiatric presentations, ventilator dependency, spinal cord injury. The clinical work is genuinely complex. Your skills will be used.

We are a small but fast-growing organisation. That means you will have direct access to the CEO and COO — decisions get made quickly, your input matters, and you will see your work have a direct impact on how the organisation develops.

What we will not tell you: that every day is easy, that there are no difficult shifts, or that working in complex care is for everyone. It is not. The participants we support have significant needs and the work requires genuine commitment, clinical confidence, and the ability to stay calm when things do not go to plan.

What the team says about working here
"Support Coordinators who refer to Nurse Aid describe us in three words: great staff, clinically sound, good communication. That is the culture we are building — and the standard we hold ourselves to internally as well."
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Training That Is Specific, Not Generic
You will be trained on the specific clinical procedures your participants require — not a one-day induction and left to figure the rest out. Competency is assessed by a Registered Nurse and documented before your first shift with a participant.
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RN Accessible When You Need Them
A Registered Nurse is accessible by phone at any hour for clinical questions that go beyond your scope. You are not left to guess on complex clinical matters. There is always someone qualified to escalate to.
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A Real Career Path
Nurse Aid is growing — from Adelaide into interstate markets over the next two to three years. If you are the right person, there is a genuine path to more senior roles as the organisation scales. This is not a holding-pattern job.
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Direct Access to Leadership
This is not a large bureaucracy. The CEO and COO are accessible, decisions are made quickly, and your work is visible. If something is not working, you can say so directly and it will be addressed.
Current & Ongoing Roles

Roles We Hire For

Four core roles — each described honestly. Specific current vacancies are listed below the role descriptions.

Clinical · AHPRA Required
Registered Nurse
Full-time or Part-time Mawson Lakes, Adelaide
Clinical oversight, participant care plan management, staff competency assessment, and on-call clinical support across our SIL homes. You are the clinical backbone of participant care — not a peripheral service.
  • AHPRA-registered Registered Nurse
  • Experience in disability, aged care, or complex community nursing
  • Comfortable with high-intensity clinical procedures
  • Strong written documentation skills
  • Calm under pressure — genuine clinical confidence
Apply for This Role →
Support · Training Provided
Complex Care Support Worker
Full-time, Part-time or Casual Greater Adelaide
Daily living and community support for participants with high-intensity clinical needs. You will receive specific clinical procedure training relevant to your participants before your first shift — not generic induction training.
  • Certificate III or IV in Individual Support (or working toward)
  • Current NDIS Worker Screening clearance (or willing to obtain)
  • Current First Aid and CPR
  • Reliable, punctual, and genuinely committed to complex care
  • Culturally diverse applicants strongly encouraged
Apply for This Role →
Clinical · NDIS Registration Required
Behaviour Support Practitioner
Full-time or Contractor Mawson Lakes, Adelaide
BSP development, staff training, intake assessment for complex referrals, and attendance at the monthly Clinical Governance Review. At Nurse Aid, the BSP is a core clinical function — not called in after an incident.
  • NDIS-registered Behaviour Support Practitioner (or working toward)
  • Experience with complex BSPs including restrictive practices
  • Comfortable in a multi-disciplinary team structure
  • Experience with forensic, psychosocial, or physical complexity preferred
Apply for This Role →
Operations · Clinical Mindset Required
Intake Coordinator
Full-time Mawson Lakes, Adelaide
Own the referral pipeline from first contact to signed participant agreement. Manage the CRM, coordinate the COO's clinical assessment schedule, and generate the weekly pipeline report. This role requires clinical understanding — you are the first point of contact for complex referrals.
  • Background in disability, health, or allied health administration
  • Confident managing a CRM and structured pipeline
  • Strong communication skills — you represent Nurse Aid to referrers
  • Organised, self-directed, comfortable with KPI accountability
Apply for This Role →
No role matching what you are looking for? Register your interest and we will contact you when a relevant vacancy opens. We are growing — new roles emerge regularly.
Training & Development

How We Develop Our Team

Clinical competency at Nurse Aid is not a one-time box to tick. It is a continuous, structured process that protects participants and develops staff.

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Participant-Specific Induction
Before your first shift with a new participant, you receive a briefing specific to that person — their clinical needs, their support plan, their communication preferences, and their BSP if one exists. Not a generic orientation.
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High-Intensity Procedure Training
For support workers assigned to participants with clinical procedure needs — tracheostomy, ventilator, PEG, seizure management — you receive procedure-specific training assessed by a Registered Nurse. You are signed off on each procedure individually.
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Annual Competency Reassessment
Competency sign-offs are not permanent. Every high-intensity procedure requires annual reassessment to ensure currency. This protects participants — and it keeps your clinical skills genuinely active rather than theoretical.
Application Process

How to Apply

A straightforward process. We do not ask for formal cover letters — we ask for evidence of who you are as a clinician or care professional.

What We Want to See

Send your CV and a short note — no more than half a page — telling us about a moment in your care work that you are proud of and why. We are not looking for formal language. We are looking for someone who thinks carefully about the people they support.

For clinical roles, include your AHPRA registration number and any relevant clinical procedure experience. For support worker roles, let us know if you have any language skills beyond English — we actively match workers to participants by cultural background and language.

Applications to: [email protected]

Include the role title in your subject line. We respond to every application — you will hear from us within three business days.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Nurse Aid Australia is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability and from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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Send your CV and short note
Email to [email protected] with the role title in the subject line. No formal cover letter required.
When you are ready
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We review your application
Our team reviews every application. You will receive a response — either way — within three business days.
Within 3 business days
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Initial phone conversation
A 20-minute call with our intake coordinator — getting to know you, your background, and what you are looking for.
20 minutes by phone
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Site visit & second conversation
If the first conversation goes well — a visit to one of our homes and a conversation with our clinical lead.
In person, Adelaide
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References & credential verification
Reference checks and verification of NDIS Worker Screening, qualifications, and AHPRA registration where applicable.
Within 5 business days
Offer
A clear offer with role, conditions, and start date. We are straightforward — no surprises.
Offer letter within 48 hours

Ready to apply or just want to ask a question?

Email us, or call and ask to speak to our intake coordinator about current opportunities. We would rather have a direct conversation than a long application process.

📧 [email protected] 📞 1300 413 663
We respond to every application within 3 business days