Registered Nurse - Operating Theatres - Scrub Scout - Shoalhaven Memorial Hospital

Bring your skills, expertise and passion for patient-centred care to the operating theatre as a Registered Nurse, where you'll work alongside a collaborative multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, evidence-based care and support positive outcomes for every patient.

$81,748.17 - $114,771.98per annum + 12% super & salary packaging | Various Permanent and Temporary Hours Available | Shoalhaven Memorial Hospital (SMH) | REQ | Grade: Registered Nurse | Applications close: 15 November 2026

Applications will be reviewed on a regular basis and interviews will be conducted at regular intervals throughout the advertising period.

Join us in shaping healthier futures. Together we can do more.

As a Scrub/Scout Registered Nurse at Shoalhaven Memorial Hospital, you'll play a key role in supporting safe, high-quality perioperative care across the patient journey. Working within a collaborative multidisciplinary theatre team, you'll use your clinical expertise to provide skilled scrub and scout nursing care, maintain high standards of infection prevention and patient safety, and contribute to positive surgical outcomes. You'll be supported to maintain and develop your clinical skills in a dynamic theatre workplace, while contributing to quality improvement, education and best-practice nursing. If you're a Registered Nurse with recent operating theatre experience who values teamwork, professional development and person-centred care, we'd love to hear from you.

For more information and to view the position classification, see the Position Description here.

A little about us.

Shoalhaven Memorial Hospital is the main referral hospital for the Shoalhaven region,



providing emergency care, medical, surgical, mental health and orthopaedic services. The hospital has an Intensive Care Unit focusing on ventilated, high dependency and coronary patients, Children's Ward and Maternity Unit, as well as a purpose-built regional Cancer Care Centre.

The hospital is currently undergoing a significant $440M redevelopment that will redefine how healthcare is delivered within the Region. Once complete in 2026, the new seven-storey Acute Services Building and refurbishments on the current hospital site will bring a focus on career development. allowing you to grow your career, acquire new skills and advance professionally as the hospital continues to develop. Within this redevelopment, a purpose-designed Mental Health Inpatient Unit will open for the first time at Shoalhaven Memorial Hospital, providing local consumers with access to comprehensive inpatient mental health care closer to home. There has never been a better time to join the progressive and expanding team in the Shoalhaven providing the highest standard of care to the Shoalhaven community.

To find out more about the redevelopment, visit our website or watch the flythrough of the new hospital here.

Benefits of working with ISLHD.

- - Allocated Days Off (ADO) - once a month take a paid day off (eligible full-time employees)




- - Salary packaging - less tax and more take-home pay
- - Novated leasing - lease a car and pay for all running costs out of your pre-taxed salary (eligible full-time employees)
- - Fitness Passport - discounted gym membership that both you and your family can enjoy (eligible employees)
- - Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - free confidential and professional assistance for staff and their families
- - Career progression, professional development and secondment opportunities

- - Applicable vaccination requirements for a Category A role.
- - Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- - Current AHPRA Registration and recent clinical experience (last 2 years) in operating theatres as an anaesthetic nurse.
- - knowledge and understanding of NSW Health Policy Directives and Australian College of Operating Room Nurses (ACORN) Standards and their application to Peri-Operative nursing practice.

ISLHD is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

ISLHD is dedicated to fostering a child-safe environment that respects and upholds the rights of children and young people, aligned with NSW Health's commitment to implementing the Child Safe Standards. We aim to ensure that children and young people feel safe, supported, and included in their care. All current and prospective staff are expected to prioritise the safety, welfare, and wellbeing of children and young people, actively working to protect them from harm and abuse.

ISLHD acknowledges that our health district is located on the unceded lands of the Aboriginal people who are the Traditional Custodians of the NSW South Coast.

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📌 Registered Nurse - Operating Theatres - Scrub Scout - Shoalhaven Memorial Hospital (Nowra)
🏢 NSW Health
📍 Nowra