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Clinical Nurse Consultant - Head and Neck Cancer Care
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District View all jobs
Posted 27 minute(s) ago
Reference: 2470643
Employment Type: Temporary Part Time (up to 09/11/2027)
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 2
Location: Nepean Hospital
Remuneration: $75.35 - $76.85 per hour
Hours Per Week: 16
Requisition ID: REQ705921
Applications Close: 17/11/2026
With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,
working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and develop in your chosen career role.
About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is an exceptional environment to advance your career while enhancing your skills and expertise. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we deliver a comprehensive range of public health services across the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Regions.
Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.
Join Nepean Hospital as a Clinical Nurse Consultant , where you will provide expert clinical leadership and specialist nursing care to patients diagnosed with head and neck cancers. Working within a dedicated multidisciplinary team, you will deliver safe, compassionate, and person-centred care. As a recognised clinical expert, you will collaborate closely with patients, families, carers, and healthcare professionals to coordinate care across the cancer journey. You will provide advanced clinical consultation, education, and support, ensuring patients receive timely, evidence-based care while promoting continuity of care and optimal health outcomes.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellence across the five domains of advanced nursing practice, contributing to service development, quality improvement, and patient advocacy initiatives. This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the delivery of specialist head and neck cancer services while improving the experience and outcomes of patients throughout their treatment and recovery.
If you're ready to take the next step in your healthcare career and contribute to a supportive, values-driven environment, apply now and help us shape the future of patient care.
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees
- Accrued Day off (ADO)
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport
What you will bring to the role
- Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Minimum five years full time equivalent post registration experience, with at least three years full time equivalent experience in Medical Oncology and post graduate qualifications in Oncology or such other qualifications or experience deemed appropriate.
- Demonstrated clinical leadership skills and an ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in nursing practice.
- Demonstrated effective communication and interpersonal skills across a variety of mediums and an understanding of the practice development framework to clinical practice.
- Demonstrated involvement in the development/change of clinical practice underpinned by evidence-based research.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to strategic and clinical service planning.
- Ability to apply clinical expertise in patient-centred consultancy with the ability to work effectively both as a member of a multidisciplinary team and independently
Additional Information:
- Click here for the Position Description
- For role related queries or questions contact Rebecca Bentham on [email protected]
- NBMLHD is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects the community we serve. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+, Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people, neurodiverse individuals, and people with disabilities to apply.
- Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal job applicants by providing information about applying for roles within NSW Health. For more information, please visit the Stepping Up website.
- NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.
- For assistance with applying please click here. To find out more about the NSW Health application process please click here.
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