🧠 Lead contemporary mental health nursing across a complex inpatient service

🌱 Shape workforce capability, clinical excellence and positive patient experiences

🤝 Join a collaborative senior leadership team focused on better mental health care

Lead. Manage. Inspire. Drive safe, evidence-based inpatient mental health care while developing nursing leaders, strengthening patient flow and delivering service improvement.

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time (up to 1st October 2028) 
Position Classification: Nurse Manager Grade 3 
Remuneration: $79.80 - $81.28 per hour
Hours Per Week: 38
Location: Blacktown

Where you'll be working
Located in one of Western Sydney’s fastest-growing and most culturally diverse communities, Blacktown Hospital combines modern facilities with a strong focus on exceptional patient care, staff wellbeing and professional development.

• Work in a state-of-the-art teaching hospital designed to support exceptional care and patient outcomes.

• Join a dynamic Mental Health Service where collaboration, innovation and evidence-based practice are valued.

• Enjoy dedicated outdoor staff areas and landscaped gardens designed to support staff wellbeing.

• Benefit from a rich teaching environment with opportunities to contribute to the development of university students and future health professionals.

• Enjoy convenient access to Westpoint shopping centre, Blacktown train station and a range of parking options.

What you'll be doing
As Nurse Manager, you will provide strategic, clinical and operational leadership across Blacktown Inpatient Mental Health Services, ensuring high-quality care while effectively managing people, resources and service demands.

• Lead and inspire Nursing Unit Managers and senior nursing staff to deliver safe, contemporary and evidence-based mental health care.

• Manage operations and patient flow, monitoring performance, workforce requirements, patient experience and service capacity.

• Build workforce capability through coaching, mentoring, professional development, recruitment, retention and leadership of senior nursing teams.

• Create and lead change through clinical improvement, service redesign, innovation and implementation of policies, standards and emerging mental health practices.

• Drive quality and resource management, ensuring clinical, fiscal, workforce and capital resources are used effectively within NSW Health and legislative requirements.

Make a difference with NSW Health

Bring your leadership, expertise and commitment to mental health to a role where you can influence care, develop future nursing leaders and help shape services for a growing Western Sydney community. Join NSW Health and help create better health outcomes, every day.

How to Apply
Apply online by submitting your resume and addressing the criteria listed below by providing examples that demonstrate your ability before the closing date.

Essential Requirements

Qualification: Registered Nurse
Registration in line with Award requirements: Current registration as a Registered Nurse with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

Selection Criteria

1. Demonstrated management/education and leadership experience in the public sector including appropriate relevant post graduate qualifications, or extensive experience deemed appropriate by employer.

2. Demonstrated leadership within the workplace including the ability to form productive working relationships through high level interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.

3. Demonstrated high level project and change management skills and the ability to use diagnostic tools and interventions including information technology platforms.

4. Demonstrated knowledge of roster creation/management and human resource management skills, including the ability to manage daily staffing requirements, recruitment management experience, and knowledge of workforce systems within health.

5. Demonstrated commitment to own professional development in areas relevant to health management and leadership.

6. Current valid NSW drivers license and ability to travel between various sites for work purposes.

Requisition ID: REQ693573
Applications Close: 21st October 2026.

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• For inquiries about the role, contact Jason Selmon on [email protected]