Registered Nurse - Discharge Lounge - Perm PT
Employment Type: Permanent Part Time, 24 hours per weekLocation: Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $36.38 - $51.08 per hour
Application Close Date: 20/07/2025
Interview Date Range: 23/07/2025 – 30/07/2025
Contact Details: Debbie Oltmanns-Scott – 02 9722 7343 | debbie.oltmannsscott@health.nsw.gov.au
Please note: A current influenza (flu) vaccination is a mandatory requirement for appointment to this position
About the Opportunity
As a Registered Nurse in the Discharge Lounge, you play a vital role in facilitating safe, timely, and patient-centred discharges from the hospital. You are responsible for coordinating final treatments, ensuring medications and documentation are complete, and supporting patients as they transition from inpatient care to home or another care setting.
Your role involves close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, effective communication with patients and families, and maintaining a calm, welcoming environment that prioritizes comfort and dignity.
This position requires strong clinical judgment, excellent time management, and the ability to adapt to changing priorities throughout the day. You’ll monitor patients awaiting discharge, respond to their evolving needs, and ensure all discharge criteria are met. By streamlining patient flow and freeing up inpatient beds, your work directly contributes to hospital efficiency and enhances the overall patient experience.
The Registered Nurse will provide safe, compassionate, quality, person centred care and work in collaboration with patients/families/carers and a multidisciplinary team to achieve identified goals and outcomes.
Where You'll Be Working
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is located in the city of Bankstown and is in one of the most multicultural local government areas (LGA) in Australia. This hospital has tertiary affiliations with three universities and offers a range of roles and experiences to employees.
The hospital receives highly diverse presentations in ED as well as having general medical and surgical services and sub-specialty services across the hospital. Working at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is a truly rewarding experience which allows you to make a real difference to the multicultural community.
Being part of the team at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital means you will be a part of a friendly and enthusiastic group of people where you will be truly valued in your work. Being a smaller hospital, you are seen as part of the wider Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital Family where you are known to the other staff and your patients.
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is like no other in our district and offers unmatched career development and progression opportunities and the hospital focuses on regular training and upskilling. There are regular occasions for working in more senior role and you will have a great management team who dedicate themselves to providing safe, quality patient care through ensuring they have a cohesive and dynamic team.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.
- Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse with Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Can you describe your recent experience as a Registered Nurse, including the clinical setting and how it relates to the specialty of this role?
- Tell us about a time when you delivered safe, compassionate, and culturally responsive care to a patient. What steps did you take to meet their individual needs?
- Describe a situation where you needed to engage with a patient, their family, and the broader healthcare team to address and respond to a care need. How did you ensure everyone was on the same page?
- Give an example of when you used critical thinking to address a clinical issue. What was the situation, and how did your decision impact the outcome?
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Additional Information
Salary Packaging
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.
Health & Fitness
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
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