Acute Pain Consultant – Nurse Practitioner

The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers.

Join the team. Build a career. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Acute Pain Clinical Nurse Consultant – Nurse Practitioner

- Collaborate with specialist multidisciplinary teams across RMH's City and Royal Park campuses.
- Improve patient outcomes through expert pain assessment and coordinated care.
- Contribute to innovation through education, research and opioid stewardship.

Why Join The Royal Melbourne Hospital?

- Shape the future of pain management within one of Victoria's leading tertiary health services.
- Work across a highly specialised multidisciplinary team delivering acute, transitional and persistent pain care.
- Advance your career through education, research, quality improvement and cutting-edge models of care.

About the Role

Join The Royal Melbourne Hospital's renowned Pain Management Service and Peri Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU), supporting a busy 16-theatre operating suite and delivering expert care across acute, sub-acute and persistent pain services.

In this role you will:

- Deliver expert assessment, care planning and management for patients experiencing acute and persistent pain.
- Lead multidisciplinary collaboration to optimise pain management and improve patient outcomes.
- Contribute to the Transitional Pain Service, opioid stewardship initiatives and quality improvement activities.
- Provide education, mentoring and clinical leadership across nursing and multidisciplinary teams.

About You

- Endorsed Nurse Practitioner,



or working towards endorsement.
- Significant experience in perioperative, recovery or pain management nursing.
- Strong clinical assessment, communication and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

Desirable

- Graduate Certificate in Peri-Anaesthetic and Recovery Nursing or related specialty.
- Experience in acute pain, transitional pain or persistent pain services.

Benefits of Working at RMH

- Work with one of Australia's leading Pain Management Services.
- Access ongoing professional development, education and research opportunities.
- Thrive in a collaborative team committed to innovation and excellence.
- Salary packaging, wellbeing initiatives and generous employee benefits.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and satisfactory Working With Children Check.

The RMH is committed to creating a culturally safe environment as a collective responsibility. We draw on our principles of self-determination, equity, accountability, and shared learning to create a culturally responsive health system that challenges how we strive for continuous quality improvement to meet the expectations of the communities and patients we serve.

RMH is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with the Child Safe Standards.

As a leader in healthcare, we recognise the need to foster a culture of equity, inclusion, and belonging. We encourage people of all backgrounds, identities, and abilities to apply, and will provide adjustments to support equitable participation.

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📌 Acute Pain Consultant- Nurse Practitioner (Melbourne)
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