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Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Nurse Mgr Gde 5
Remuneration: $170,655.23 - $173,551.14 per annum
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ670183
About the role
Tweed Valley Hospital is seeking an Assistant Director of Nursing (ADoN) to join its Executive Leadership Team.
Reporting to the Director of Nursing and Midwifery, the ADoN is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership across the designated Directorate, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centred nursing and midwifery services.
This key leadership role drives clinical excellence, workforce engagement, and continuous improvement, while supporting the delivery of outcome-focused care aligned with professional standards and organisational priorities. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to strengthen clinician engagement and contribute to the planning, delivery, evaluation, and ongoing improvement of health services across Tweed Valley Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced nursing leader to influence service delivery, foster a culture of quality and innovation, and make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes.
About Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD)
We are a healthcare community, caring for the people of the Northern Rivers. We understand that high quality healthcare and quality of life go hand in hand. Our hospitals, and our community health and multipurpose services are a well-balanced modern network truly connecting the communities we serve across the Tweed, Richmond, and Clarence Valleys.
If you care about high quality healthcare and quality of life, we encourage you to join us.
You care. We care. Learn more about NNSWLHD here.
Relocating to the region?
The Welcome Experience in the Northern Rivers connects you and your family with local people and local resources to help you settle in and feel at home in your new community faster.
Learn more at: www.nsw.gov.au/welcomeexperience
Join our team and you’ll enjoy:
- Salary packaging and novated leasing – increase your take-home pay
- Fitness discounts – focus on your health and wellbeing
- Growth – access to professional and personal development
- Team culture – work in a collaborative, flexible and supportive team environment
- Opportunities to start or build a career, or re-enter the workforce
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For role related queries or questions contact Rachel Langheim on [email protected]
Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day
Applications Close: 22 June 2026
NNSWLHD embraces the diverse skills and perspectives that our people bring to the workplace. We foster inclusiveness and diversity to help us deliver quality care to our community.
NNSWLHD is committed to reconciliation and strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this position. All applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be viewed most favourably.
For help with your application to this role visit Stepping Up, our online recruitment resource for Aboriginal people.
To apply for this position, you must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident, or be able to independently, legally live and work in Australia. For more information, please see www.homeaffairs.gov.au
This is a Category A position. To be employed by NSW Health you are required to provide evidence of vaccination to comply with the NSW Health Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases Policy (PD2026_004).
You may be subject to a probationary period of six months from the date of appointment to this position.
This recruitment may be used to fill future permanent, temporary and casual positions.
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