Nursing Assistant - Regent Arcade, SA & Pop-Ups
Date: 6 Aug 2025
Search suburb or city: Adelaide, SA, AU, 5000
Adelaide, SA, AU, 5000

Company: Australian Red Cross Lifeblood

• Permanent Part-Time Opportunity - 45.00 hours per fortnight (7 Shifts)
• Varied shifts across a rotating roster - Monday to Sunday
• Salary starting from $32.31 per hour + Penalties (if applicable) + Super + Salary Packaging and more

Besides having a real passion to deliver an exceptional donor experience, you’ll need to be able to:

• Be comfortable with needles and blood/biological materials
• Be comfortable with occasional travel to our Pop-Up Donor Centres in South Australia by plane or car.
• Occasionally lift between 9-22.7kgs
• Support and foster a fantastic team culture
• Frequently stand, walk and bend to set up and pack down machines and blood products
• Be flexible to work varied shifts on a fortnightly rotating roster from Monday to Saturday/Sunday, including weekends and afternoon shift

Step into a rewarding role as a Nursing Assistant where you will bring excellent customer-facing skills and a genuine passion to deliver an exceptional service to our donors.
You will play a key role in supporting our donors through their donation process. Full training is provided so, along with the above, all you need is the curiosity and motivation to learn the process of collecting blood and biological product.

A day in the Donor centre or Pop-Up could see you:

• Ocassionally travelling across South Australia to Pop-Up Donor Centres to delivery essential services to regional communities
• Greet and interview potential donors to understand their eligibility and suitability to donate
• Create a donor experience they’ll love—and want to come back Complete routine blood pressure and haemoglobin tests
• Set up machines and collections equipment
• Insert and remove needles safely to collect whole blood, plasma, and platelets
• Monitor donors post-donation and assist them with rebooking their next donation
• Work collaboratively to achieve collection targets

No prior experience in blood collection is needed, our paid and flexible self-paced training program has a balance between on-the-job practice, and online class schedules to ensure that you are well supported.

Besides having a real passion to deliver an exceptional donor experience, you’ll need to be able to:

• Be comfortable with needles and blood/biological materials
• Be comfortable with occasional travel to our Pop-Up Donor Centres in South Australia by plane or car.
• Occasionally lift between 9-22.7kgs
• Support and foster a fantastic team culture
• Frequently stand, walk and bend to set up and pack down machines and blood products
• Be flexible to work varied shifts on a fortnightly rotating roster from Monday to Saturday/Sunday, including weekends and afternoon shifts