High quality healthcare. Quality of life. Learn and grow in your career and in your life, with more opportunities and more flexibility.

Employment Type : Permanent Part Time

Position Classification : Nurse Practitioner or Transitional Nurse Practitioner

Remuneration : $149,408.11 - $169,429.03 per annum, pro rata + super and salary packaging

Hours Per Week : 28

Requisition ID : REQ

Applications close : 10 August 2026

Are you an experienced Nurse Practitioner with a background as a Rural Generalist? Or perhaps you’re a Transitional Nurse Practitioner seeking a new opportunity to apply your skills and expertise? This is an exciting opportunity to shape a Nurse Practitioner-led service while making a meaningful difference to the health and wellbeing of the Murwillumbah community and surrounding regions. Join our dynamic team and contribute to making a meaningful impact every day.

About The Opportunity

At NNSWLHD we want to empower and inspire our nurses to deliver exceptional care to every patient, in every situation. We are dedicated to creating a positive and forward-thinking environment, built on our CORE values - Collaboration, Openness, Respect, and Empowerment, and a shared commitment to quality mental health care.

In This Role, You Will Have The Chance To

- Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of an innovative model of care.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient outcomes and health service quality.
- Develop and implement innovative healthcare strategies that align with best practices and organisational goals.
- Develop your Scope of Practice to improve patient-centred health care.

You care. We care.

About You

We’re looking for someone who has current AHPRA registration and is endorsed to practice as a Nurse Practitioner or meets the requirements for a Transitional Nurse Practitioner application.

Nurse Practitioners

- Demonstrated Advanced Clinical Practice in the main Metaspecialty, focusing on complex,



autonomous decision‑making in the clinical management of patients.
- Demonstrated willingness in the development of your Scope of Practice to improve access to healthcare for patients and their carers.
- Demonstrated effective communication and teamwork skills, building strong relationships while maintaining professional boundaries.
- Demonstrated leadership and educational activities in your current role.
- Demonstrated ability to support health care systems and research.

Transitional Nurse Practitioners

- Developing skills and knowledge in advanced clinical practice within the main Metaspecialty, with experience in autonomous decision‑making and clinical management of patients.
- Lead and participate in educational activities including staff and patients; contribute to quality improvement activities in the support of health care systems.
- Willingness to develop a Scope of Practice across multimodal specialities.

NNSWLHD embraces the diverse skills and perspectives that our people bring to the workplace. We foster inclusiveness and diversity to help us deliver quality care to our community.

NNSWLHD is committed to reconciliation and strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this position. All applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be viewed most favourably.

For help with your application to this role visit Stepping Up, our online recruitment resource for Aboriginal people.

To apply for this position, you must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident, or be able to independently, legally live and work in Australia. For more information, please see

This is a Category A position. To be employed by NSW Health you are required to provide evidence of vaccination to comply with the NSW Health Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases Policy (PD2026_004).

You may be subject to a probationary period of six months from the date of appointment to this position.

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📌 Rural Generalist Nurse Practitioner - Murwillumbah
🏢 Northern NSW Local Health District
📍 Murwillumbah