- This position qualifies for incentives under the NSW Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme, including up to $10,000 sign on incentive, and up to $5,000 each year (incentive value dependent on full-time equivalent, position and location).
Requisition Number: REQ675697
Employment Type: Permanent, Part Time and Casual opportunities available
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $79,368.82 - $111,427.34 per annum, pro rata (+ super + 17.5% leave loading where applicable)
Hours per Week: up to 38
Applications Close: 29 July 2026
Vaccination Category: A
Location: Wagga Wagga
Take your perioperative career further in Wagga Wagga.
About the Opportunity
Are you a compassionate and experienced nurse seeking a new opportunity?
MLHD is recruiting Registered Nurses with an interest or experience in Perioperative Nursing at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital.
With various opportunities available, you can embrace the stability of a full-time role, tailor your lifestyle with our part-time opportunities, or enjoy flexibility through casual opportunities — the choice is yours.
You will be responsible for assessing patients, developing and evaluating nursing care plans, and ensuring the high-quality delivery of perioperative services, such as admissions, anaesthetics, scrub/scout and recovery nursing. Supported by a strong multidisciplinary team, you will be immersed in evidence-based processes and ongoing education to enhance nursing quality, patient safety and your own professional development.
To find out more, please review the Position Description
About You
Our ideal candidate will demonstrate:
- Registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia via AHPRA
- Completion of a Graduate Nurse Program or equivalent or working towards
- Strong communication, interpersonal skills and the ability to build respectful relationships with patients, carers, families and colleagues
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate safe, evidence-based care in a dynamic perioperative environment of admissions, anaesthetics, scrub/scout and recovery nursing.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and professional development
About Us
Wagga Wagga Health Service provides services including critical care, medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric, and rehabilitation care. The facility also provides mental health and community health services. A team of specialists support the service which include cardiovascular, gastroenterology, renal medicine, obstetrics, orthopaedics, psychiatry and paediatrics.
There is also the provision of a full range of allied health and support services such as oral health, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, sexual health and violence prevention and response services.
Why join MLHD
At Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD), we offer more than a job, we offer the chance to make a real difference.
- Incentives Offered: This position qualifies for incentives under the NSW Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme, including up to $10,000 sign on incentive, and up to $5,000 each year (incentive value dependent on full-time equivalent, position and location).
- Attractive Remuneration: $79,368.82 - $111,427.34 per annum, pro rata (+ super + 17.5% leave loading where applicable)
- Salary Packaging: Up to $20,600 per annum tax-free for living expenses, plus novated leasing for a new car!
- Relocation Support: Assistance for interstate applicants to help you transition smoothly to life in Wagga Wagga. Accommodation options can be discussed.
- Professional Growth: Access to ongoing training and education programs, with clear pathways for career advancement within NSW Health.
- Health and Wellbeing: Comprehensive health and wellness programs
Click here to discover why MLHD is the right place to grow your career and contribute to healthier communities.
How to Apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, click apply now! Please contact Contact Justine Bowden- [email protected] , if you have any questions about this role.
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.
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.
