AddressEmployment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Enrolled Nurse
Remuneration: $63,130.85 - $68,599.17 + Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ491381
- Opportunity to travel to our remote site to relieve and work on the frontline to join a truly supportive team that is empowered to provide the ultimate patient experience.
- Grow your career with us with ongoing learning and development.
- Get exposure to work across different areas you would not get in the big smoke.
We really aren't that far away - only 2 hours' drive from Mildura, 6 hours from Adelaide and a short flight from anywhere in Australia with everything you need right at your front door!
Join Far West with a supportive community that will welcome you with open arms. We can't wait to see you! Take a quick look at "Living and Working" in the Far West.
What you'll be doing
- Under the guidance of a Registered Nurse, provide safe, compassionate, person centred care in collaboration with individual/s and the multidisciplinary health care team to achieve quality care outcomes for patients and clients.
- Visit and work across 9 of our rural & remote health facilities (Balranald, Buronga, Ivanhoe, Menindee, Tibooburra, Wentworth, White Cliffs & Wilcannia)
- Provide safe, person centred care to our patients in a variety of places & settings across the Far West LHD
- We require someone with recent remote clinical experience including Primary Health and Emergency Department experience.
What is on Offer
- Rural Incentive up to $10k
- Salary Packaging (pay less tax) and enjoy up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment.
- Paid travel time between sites and accommodation provided when working at the sites.
- Novated Leasing.
- Isolation & climate allowance.
- Fitness Passport.
- 1x Paid Allocated Day Off (ADO) every month.
About the Far West LHD
The Far West Local Health District is one of 15 LHDs under NSW Health, providing high quality public health services to the communities in far west NSW. FWLHD has a mandate to provide the highest quality care and services to its communities using the latest clinical evidence and technological enablers. 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, 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 Balranald
Balranald is a beautiful rural town on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River. It has a friendly atmosphere with great venues for barista coffee, a well renowned bakery and discovery centre. A short drive takes you to the scenic larger town of Swan Hill for shopping, a great swimming pool and art centre. Balranald offers amazing food at the local RSL and to die for take away Pizza. Balranald Shire is home to the spectacular Yanga National Park and World heritage listed Mungo National Park, rich in Aboriginal history. Surrounded by five of NSW’s most iconic rivers (the Murray, Lachlan, Wakool, Edward & Murrumbidgee), the town provides an ideal location for boating, fishing, kayaking and other water sports.
