Clinical Nurse Consultant 1- Research ICU
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 1
Location: Nepean Hospital
Remuneration: $63.91 - $65.21 per hour
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ564613
Applications Close: 09/04/2025
With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,
working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed
and develop in your chosen career role.
About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.
Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.
NBMLHD has an incredible opportunity to work with the ICU Research Team located at Nepean Hospital. This position on offer is for a Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 1 to cover maternity leave in a Temporary Full time role.
This position will see you liaise with principal investigators of research studies involving patients in the ICU, provide extensive review of study feasibility prior to implementation and actively participate in patient recruitment and bedside clinical activities. You will consult with Nurse Managers and Director of Intensive Care Medicine in regard to available logistical support for any proposed study and identify source of funding for any proposed study and provide advice and direction to other members of the research team.
Working with Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District will allow you to meet the needs of staff, patients and their families whilst working in a diverse team demonstrating CORE values whilst providing exceptional person-centered care.
If this is the kind of working environment for you and the opportunities excite you, please apply now!
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees
- Accrued Day Off (ADO)
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport
NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.
NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.
For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.
What you will bring to the role:
- Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse/Midwife with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
- Minimum five years full time equivalent post graduate qualification experience and a post graduate qualification in Intensive Care Nursing, or such other qualifications or equivalent experience deemed appropriate by the public health organisation..
- Proven clinical leadership skills and an ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in nursing practice
- Demonstrated effective communication and inter-personal skills across a variety of mediums and knowledge of the practice development framework to clinical practice.
- Demonstrated Involvement in the development/change of clinical practice underpinned by evidence based research, including experience coordinating clinical research.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to strategic and clinical service planning.
- Proven skills in clinical teaching, the identification of education needs in the clinical area, and competency in the use of contemporary information systems.
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.
Need more information?
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For role related queries or questions contact Sarah Morris on sarah.morris@health.nsw.gov.au
