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Employment Type: Temporary Part Time (88 weeks)

Position Classification: Nurse Practitioner

Remuneration: $158,236.73 - $169,429.03 per annum pro rata

Hours Per Week: 22

Requisition ID: REQ

Are you an experienced Nurse Practitioner?

This role leads the hospital avoidance team and focuses on cutting-edge patient centred care within a hub and spoke model, working collaboratively with local referrers and community services.

About The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Rural Generalist Nurse Practitioner – Hospital Avoidance to join our team, location negotiable within Northern NSW LHD.

This is a unique opportunity to work in a progressive, future-focused service delivering high-quality, person-centred care to people across the Northern NSW Local Health District. The Rural Generalist Nurse Practitioner Hospital Avoidance role delivers complex, person centred care across multiple service touchpoints, including Aged Care Outreach, Hospital in the Home, and other acute community based hospital avoidance services such as Urgent Care. The Nurse Practitioner will provide care across diverse services and modalities both face-to-face and virtual ensuring timely, appropriate interventions are delivered in the most suitable setting across NNSWLHD.

Grounded in nursing values, knowledge, and practice, the Nurse Practitioner role offers innovative, flexible healthcare that complements and enhances multidisciplinary care.



The Nurse Practitioners scope of practice is defined by the clinical context in which they are authorised, enabling responsive, high quality care tailored to the needs of people in rural and regional communities.

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 creative healthcare strategies that align with best practices and organisational goals
- Develop your Scope of Practice to improve patient centred health

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About You

- Has current AHPRA registration and is endorsed to practice as a Nurse Practitioner.
- 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.
- Statements of service
- Copies of relevant qualifications

For role related queries or questions contact Bronwyn Browne on

Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day.

NNNSWLHD 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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📌 Nurse Practitioner, Hospital Avoidance - location negotiable within NNSWLHD (Lismore City Council)
🏢 Northern NSW Local Health District
📍 Lismore City Council