Employment Type: Casual

Position Classification: Registered Nurse

Remuneration: $41.23 – $57.88 per hour + Superannuation

Requisition ID: REQ

Location: Balranald NSW (1-hour from Swan Hill VIC)

What you’ll be doing

- Work in one of the Far West LHD’s modern facilities, located 100 metres from the Murrumbidgee River.
- Join a supportive, multi‑disciplinary healthcare team that embraces current members.
- Develop your skills and progress your career across a wide range of specialties in a smaller, rural hospital.
- Have a doctor never far away with a co‑located GP practice.
- Receive excellent training and education opportunities to advance your nursing skills.
- Make a real, meaningful difference to health outcomes for the local community.

What we offer

- Rural Incentive Package (up to $10,000) under the NSW Health Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme.
- Salary packaging (pay less tax) up to $9 K for living expenses plus $2.6 K for meal and entertainment.
- Access to an in‑house gym.
- Support through advanced education and training.
- A comfortable country lifestyle that supports balance and wellbeing.

Qualifications and Experience

- Current nursing/midwifery registration with AHPRA.
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field to the position or willingness to undertake one.
- Recent remote and Emergency Department clinical experience, including current Advanced Life Support Accreditation.




- Demonstrated application of professional and ethical boundaries in patient care within a multidisciplinary team.
- Evidence of evidence‑based practice and critical thinking to advocate for and implement individualised, person‑centred care.
- Capacity to interact with others in a personable and professional manner and to resolve conflicts when they arise.
- Commitment to working and partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients, families, and staff to enhance health outcomes for these clients.
- Evidence of participation in professional development and commitment to maintaining competence and skills, with willingness to share expertise with colleagues.
- Effective interpersonal skills and excellent written and verbal communication within a multidisciplinary team.

At Far West Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences, but we honour and support them. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability, and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.

NSW Health acknowledges the people of the many traditional countries and language groups of New South Wales. It acknowledges the wisdom of Elders past and present, and pays respect to all Aboriginal communities of today.

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