Help Shape Better Health Journeys for Children Across the North West!

Play a vital role supporting children and young people with complex and chronic health needs. This rewarding position combines advanced clinical nursing practice with care coordination, helping families navigate healthcare services and ensuring children receive the right care at the right time.

About the role

Provide advanced clinical nursing care and expert coordination for children and young people with chronic and complex healthcare needs across North West Queensland. Working closely with families, General Practitioners, specialists, community services and multidisciplinary teams, you'll help deliver seamless, integrated care that improves health outcomes and enhances the wellbeing of children and their families.

About the team The Paediatric Ward at Mount Isa Hospital is a 10-bed unit providing care for children from birth through to adolescence. The ward delivers specialised care across a broad range of acute and chronic medical, surgical, respiratory and oncology presentations and supports children and families from Mount Isa and surrounding Gulf communities. Through the Connected Care Program, the team works collaboratively across Queensland to ensure children with complex health needs receive coordinated, accessible and integrated care wherever they live.

Working with us

- 12.75% employer superannuation contribution.
- Professionally, our HHS values professionalism, leadership capability, excellence and resilience in our staff.



We are committed to providing extraordinary opportunities for career development including in-house training, development and mentoring programs.

Requirements
- Mandatory requirements are a relevant tertiary degree qualification and appropriate registration/licences.
- C Class Motor Vehicle Licence.
- Pre-employment screening will be conducted for the successful applicant, including Criminal History checks.
- This is a VPD risk role and may require evidence of vaccination or immunity to: Hepatitis A/B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, and Tuberculosis.
- A period of probation may apply.

About North West Hospital and Health Service The North West Hospital and Health Service (NWHHS) delivers public health services across approximately 300,000 square kilometres, supporting remote communities throughout North Western Queensland and the Gulf of Carpentaria. We are committed to promoting community wellbeing and providing high-quality, accessible and effective healthcare for all.
- Unique locations
- Friendly communities
- Regional, rural and remote $$$ incentives

The lifestyle in Mount Isa is family friendly; it is a vibrant city with an outback community feel. You will fall in love with the natural splendour of the North West Queensland region, the experience of a rural/urban community and the prospect to make a real and positive difference... and want to stay. Mount Isa is a great place to live and work!

Interested?

Download the Role Description for further information and application / interview preparation.

Contact: Melissa Holden on (07) 4744 4862 4744 4862).

Applications close: Friday, 11 September 2026.

📌 Clinical Nurse - Connected Care (Mount Isa)
🏢 Department of Health - Queensland
📍 Mount Isa