Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 2

Remuneration: $149,408.12 - $152,392.73 superannuation

Hours Per Week: 38

Requisition ID: REQ706569

Location: Broken Hill

- Great opportunity to join a supportive team and make a real difference.
- Fantastic lifestyle, great food/cafes, art, music, sport and festivals.
- Only 3 hours from Mildura and 5 hours from Adelaide or hop on a plane with a short flight from anywhere in Australia.

Broken Hill truly is a town like no other with a supportive community that will welcome you with open arms. We can't wait to see you! Take a quick look on "Living and Working" in the Far West.

What you'll be doing

Provide expert clinical advice, clinical organisation, leadership and consultancy services within the nursing specialty across multiple service groups, target populations and health care professionals, to deliver high quality clinical services in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams within the Far West Local Health District. What is on offer

- 5 weeks annual leave every year (pro rata)
- Monthly ADO
- Salary packaging (pay less tax!) and enjoy up to $9k for living expenses $2.6k for meals and entertainment
- Novated leasing
- Isolation & climate allowance
- Remote Area Housing Assistance Benefits
- Fitness Passport
- Support through advanced education & training
- A comfortable and affordable country lifestyle that supports balance & wellbeing

About the Far West LHD The Far West Local Health District is 15 LHDs under NSW Health, providing high quality public health services to the communities in far west NSW. Our vision is to create excellence in rural and remote healthcare.

Key to our success of course, is our people. Our workforce is inclusive and diverse. We employ well over 800 clinicians and support staff across our 9 health facilities in Broken Hill, Balranald, Dareton (Buronga), Ivanhoe, Menindee, Tibooburra, Wentworth, White Cliffs and Wilcannia.

In the Far West LHD, we are working together to make a real difference to the health outcomes for our communities.



We encourage you to consider joining our friendly team for a meaningful and rewarding career in rural and remote healthcare.

About Broken Hill

Often referred to as an “Oasis in the Outback”, Broken Hill is a thriving regional town in far west NSW full of diversity, history and character. Being Australia’s first city to be Nationally Heritage Listed, Broken Hill is a culturally rich town with a vibrant art scene with over 20 galleries (more than pubs)! The unique attractions, festivals and beautiful natural landscapes see tourists flock from all over, but the ones who stay quickly fall in love with the place and its liveability.

With a population just shy of 20,000, Broken Hill is small enough to allow for a relaxed country lifestyle, while big enough to provide all the desired facilities of a regional hub including major supermarkets and retail stores, excellent schools (7 primary & 2 high), multiple gyms & aquatic centre, well-known fast food franchises and a plethora of trendy restaurants, pubs and cafés.

How to apply To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the selection criteria in the application as thoroughly as possible

- Current Authority to Practise as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). At least 5 years fulltime equivalent post registration clinical experience including 3 years' experience in the specialty and post graduate qualifications relevant to the specialty.
- Demonstrated effective communication including verbal, written and interpersonal skills and advanced information technology skills to provide complex consultancy services and influence creative nursing practice.




- Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively both independently and as part of the multidisciplinary health care team.
- Demonstrated ability to lead quality improvement, practice development and evidence-based practice.
- Demonstrated clinical expertise and clinical leadership in acute care (medical / surgical specialty)
- Demonstrated ability to identify education needs and develop education plans and resource material for patients/clients and health care professionals.
- Current licence to drive in NSW with the ability to drive for work purposes, including occasional long distances and overnight stays.

The Welcome Experience The Welcome Experience in Broken Hill connects you and your family with local people and local resources to help you settle in and feel at home in your new community faster.

Learn more at www.nsw.gov.au/welcomeexperience

Need more information?

- Click here for the Position Description
- Find out more about applying for this position For role related queries or questions contact Tracey Johnson on [email protected]

Applications Close: 24 November 2026

Stepping Up The Stepping Up Website is a resource designed to help Aboriginal job applicants apply for positions within NSW Health.

If you are an Aboriginal person and wish to obtain more information about applying for a role with us, please visit:

https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/

Empower, listen and act together

Together, we can make a positive difference in the lives of all children, young people and families within our community to keep them safe from harm and to empower children's voices.

At Far West Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences, but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI community to apply.

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