Join our team and build on your career in providing holistic care to the Illawarra community
$41.23 - $57.88 per hour + 12% super & salary packaging | Permanent Full Time & Permanent Part Time Vacancies | Medical Ward, Shellharbour Hospital (SHH) | REQ661581 | Grade: Registered Nurse | Applications close: 20 September 2026
Join us in shaping healthier futures. Together we can do more.
Why Join Shellharbour Hospital Now?
Be Part of the Journey to a New Hospital
Opportunities to join a health service on the path to opening a brand-new hospital are rare. By joining Shellharbour Hospital now, you'll play an active role in helping shape the future of healthcare delivery in our community as we transition to a state-of-the-art facility in 2027.
Work in Contemporary Clinical Environments
The new Shellharbour Hospital is being designed with patients and staff at its centre, featuring modern clinical spaces, advanced technology, contemporary equipment, and environments that support safe, efficient, and person-centred care.
Help Shape Future Models of Care
This is more than simply moving into a new building. It is an opportunity to contribute to the design of workflows, patient journeys, clinical practice, and innovative models of care that will support generations of patients and healthcare professionals.
Grow With an Expanding Health Service
As services expand within the new facility, exciting opportunities will emerge across a range of specialties, leadership roles, education, quality improvement, and project work. Whether you are looking to develop your clinical expertise or progress your leadership career, there will be opportunities to grow alongside the organisation.
Influence Culture From Day One
Join a team that is building a workplace culture focused on collaboration, innovation, excellence, and staff wellbeing. Early recruits will have the opportunity to influence how teams work together and help establish the values and culture of the new hospital.
Access the Best of Both Worlds
Enjoy a rewarding career in an advanced healthcare facility while living in one of Australia's most desirable coastal regions. Spend less time commuting and more time enjoying beaches, coastal walks, family activities, and everything the Illawarra and South Coast have to offer.
Create the Future of Healthcare at Shellharbour Hospital
Imagine being part of a team that doesn't just work in a new hospital—but helps create it.
Shellharbour Hospital is entering an exciting period of growth as we prepare for the opening of our new state-of-the-art hospital in 2027. We're seeking passionate nurses who want more than a job—they want the opportunity to influence future models of care, embrace innovation, and help shape the culture of a modern healthcare facility from the ground up.
As a member of our team, you'll be part of a once-in-a-generation transformation, working alongside dedicated clinicians in a supportive environment while building the foundations for the next era of healthcare on the South Coast.
A little about us.
Shellharbour Hospital is a busy acute care facility which provides emergency services, elective surgical services, general medicine, antenatal and primary family health care, satellite renal dialysis, and adolescent and adult mental health services on site. It's an accredited healthcare facility with the Australian Council on Health Care Standards (ACHS) and is recognised as providing a high standard of care to the community.
Located on the beautiful South Coast of NSW, Shellharbour is known for its spectacular coastal scenery and is only a little over a 1.5 hour drive from Sydney.
Benefits of working with ISLHD.
We understand that balancing career aspirations with the demand of the everyday, as well as maintaining a healthy work-life balance, can be a challenge. To help with this, we offer a range of benefits which include:
- Allocated Days Off (ADO) - once a month take a paid day off (eligible full-time employees)
- Salary packaging - less tax and more take-home pay
- Novated leasing - lease a car and pay for all running costs out of your pre-taxed salary (eligible full-time employees)
- Fitness Passport - discounted gym membership that both you and your family can enjoy (eligible employees)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - free confidential and professional assistance for staff and their families
- Career progression, professional development and secondment opportunities
Apply now by reading the Position Description, then, using our online portal, submit a resume and answer the selection criteria within the application. In addition, please note you must have the following essential requirements:
- Applicable vaccination requirements for a Category A role.
- Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- Current AHPRA Registration
ISLHD is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
ISLHD is dedicated to fostering a child-safe environment that respects and upholds the rights of children and young people, aligned with NSW Health’s commitment to implementing the Child Safe Standards. We aim to ensure that children and young people feel safe, supported, and included in their care. All current and prospective staff are expected to prioritise the safety, welfare, and wellbeing of children and young people, actively working to protect them from harm and abuse.
Need more information or help applying?
- For role-related queries or help applying, contact Jessica Tully at [email protected]
ISLHD acknowledges that our health district is located on the unceded lands of the Aboriginal people who are the Traditional Custodians of the NSW South Coast.
