Hillston Facility Manager
Be part of a committed rural health leadership team, providing day to day operational and clinical oversight to ensure safe, high quality, person centred care for the Hillston community. In this rewarding leadership role, you will guide and support multidisciplinary teams, drive continuous improvement, and strengthen connections with local services to meet community health needs.
Join a proud and professional team within Murrumbidgee Local Health District, improving and sustaining the health of our rural communities in meaningful and lasting ways every day.
Our benefits
- Incentives: This position qualifies for incentives under the NSW Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme, including up to $20,000 sign on incentive, and up to $10,000 each year (incentive value dependent on full-time equivalent, position and location).
- Salary packaging, novated leasing, and Health and Wellbeing Support
- Relocation support considerations
- A position dedicated to empowering others
- A team that is inclusive, respectful, and values the diverse communities it serves
- A collaborative, teams-based multi-disciplinary approach to patient care
- Engaging and intellectually stimulating work
Take advantage of ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.
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Requisition Number: REQ660799
Employment Type: Permanent Full -Time
Position Classification: Nurse Manager - Grade 3
Remuneration: $143,851.10 - $146,522.64 per annum (+ super + 17.5% leave loading where applicable)
Applications Close: 5 June 2026
Location: Hillston Health Service
About the Opportunity
We are seeking a Facility Nurse Manager, who will lead with vision and integrity, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care while fostering a supportive and empowered team environment. Your role will be pivotal in driving clinical excellence, strengthening staff capability, and creating a culture where residents, families, and staff feel valued and respected. As the Facility Nurse Manager you will be responsible for the day to day operational management of nursing and other clinical and non-clinical support services at the facility level to provide safe compassionate person centred care through the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care in collaboration with individual/s and the multidisciplinary health care team to achieve safe quality care outcomes that meet the goals of the individual at the facility.
Our ideal candidate will:
- Current authority to practise as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA, with experience commensurate to Nurse Manager Grade 3 (as outlined in Appendix 1 – Core Knowledge and Skills of the Public Health System Nurses’ and Midwives’ (State) Award 2015).
- Demonstrated senior leadership and management experience, with qualifications in health management, health policy and planning, business, or a related discipline (or currently working towards).
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to negotiate, influence, and manage conflict with clinicians, managers, staff, and external stakeholders, along with strong computer literacy across workforce, performance, and analytics systems.
- Proven experience in financial and activity/service delivery management, including developing and implementing strategies to improve efficiency and achieve service targets.
- Strong people leadership capability, including the ability to motivate, inspire, and manage teams through change using recognised change management principles.
- Demonstrated understanding of accreditation processes and their linkage to quality and safety improvement.
- Experience managing a complex service environment with competing demands for access, throughput, and resources.
A current Class C driver’s licence, with the ability and willingness to travel across the Murrumbidgee Local Health District, including driving long distances as required.
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About Hillston
Experience country living at its best in Hillston. Set on the banks of the Lachlan River, this welcoming Riverina town combines a strong community spirit, affordable housing, and a great outdoor lifestyle with river walks, Lake Woorabinda, and wide-open spaces. With schools, health services, shops, cafés and sporting clubs, Hillston has everything you need day-to-day, without the stress of city living. Add productive agricultural surrounds and room to grow, and Hillston is an ideal choice for families, professionals, retirees or anyone seeking space, balance and genuine connection.
More information:
1) Click here for the Position Description
2) Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions contact Jane McGauley, via [email protected] for a confidential chat.
Applications Close: 5 June 2026
Make a Change. Make a Difference. Make it Rural
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.
Child Safe Standards - NSW Health is committed to implementing the Child Safe Standards.
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
