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Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Position Classification: Nurse Practitioner or Transitional Nurse Practitioner

Remuneration: $158,236.73 - $169,429.03 per annum, plus super, salary packaging and additional days off

Hours Per Week: 38

Requisition ID: REQ698873

Applications Close: 22 October 2026

Are you an experienced Nurse Practitioner with a background in Multispecialty/Speciality? Or perhaps you’re a Transitional Nurse Practitioner seeking a recent opportunity to apply your skills and expertise?

Join our dynamic team and contribute to making a meaningful impact every day. Apply now and be part of a community that makes a difference.

About the Chance

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 opportunity 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.



Learn more about NNSWLHD here.

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, 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 specialties.

Need more information?
1. Nurse Practitioner Endorsement Nursing and Midwifery Board guidelines
2. Transitional Nurse Practitioner applications should consider referring to the ADVANCE tool for key elements in working to the full Scope of Practice of a Registered Nurse.

For role related queries or questions contact Tamahra Manson on [email protected] Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day.

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 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.

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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