Requisition Number: REQ668499
Employment Type: Permanent Full - Time
Position Classification: Nurse Manager - Grade 3
Remuneration: $153,629.36- $156,478.31 per annum (+ super + 17.5% leave loading where applicable)
Applications Close: Midnight 15 July 2026
Vaccination Category: A
Location: Negotiable across MLHD sites
Coordinating care, supporting teams, and leading palliative care services across MLHD!
The Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) Specialist Palliative Care Service is a community-based service led by a specialist medical, nursing, and allied health team. The service provides comprehensive end of life and specialist palliative care support to patients across the district in the community with in-reach consultation to MLHD hospitals and residential aged care facilities. We are committed to delivering compassionate, culturally appropriate, and person-centred care that supports patients and families at every stage of their journey.
About the Opportunity
The Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) is seeking an experienced and values-driven Palliative Care Stream Manager to provide strategic and operational leadership across our Specialist Palliative Care Service.
In this senior leadership role you will lead a coordinated, district-wide palliative care program, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, person-centred care. You will oversee multidisciplinary teams across community, hospital, and residential aged care settings, driving clinical excellence, service innovation, and workforce capability.
This is a unique opportunity to shape and strengthen palliative care services across MLHD, improving access, integration, and outcomes for patients with advanced and life-limiting illness, as well as their families and carers.
To find out more, please review the Position Description.
Our ideal candidate will demonstrate:
- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA and experience aligned with Nurse Manager Grade 3 (Appendix 1, Core Knowledge and Skills, Public Health System Nurses’ and Midwives’ State Award 2015 / 2018)
- Senior leadership and management experience, with qualifications in health management, health policy and planning, business, or equivalent (or working towards)
- High-level written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to liaise, negotiate, and manage conflict with clinicians, managers, staff, and key stakeholders.
- Advanced computer skills, including experience with health workforce, performance, and analytics systems.
- Proven financial and service management experience, including driving efficiency and achieving organisational goals.
- Show advanced leadership skills, with the ability to motivate, inspire, and manage staff to achieve service and organisational goals using recognised change management principles.
- Understanding of accreditation processes, quality improvement, and safety initiatives.
- Experience managing complex services with competing demands for access, throughput, and resources.
Evidence of a current Class C Driver licence and willingness to travel across MLHD.
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About Us
- At Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD), we offer more than a job — we offer the chance to make a real difference. Meaningful Impact – Play a vital role in supporting essential services to our diverse and vibrant regional communities.
- Flexible Working Arrangements – Designed to support work-life balance, aligned with NSW Health policy.
- Generous Salary Packaging – Access up to $20,600 per annum tax-free for living expenses, plus the option for novated car leasing.
- Professional Development – Take advantage of ongoing learning and career development opportunities.
- Health & Wellbeing Support – Benefit from our comprehensive wellness programs for you and your family, including Employee Assistance Programs Fitness Passport and initiatives to support both physical and mental health.
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How to Apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, click apply now! Please contact Mid Battye via [email protected] if you have any questions about this role.
Your application will need to include:
- A current CV
- A cover letter
- Responses to the application questions
MLHD welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and is committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.
If you identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, you can access recruitment application support through the Stepping Up initiative.
This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.
