Registered Nurse - Palliative Care Ward - Perm FT/PT
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time or Part Time up to 38 hours per week
Location: Liverpool Hospital
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $37.48 - $52.62 per hour
Requisition ID: REQ615951
Application Close Date: 09/11/2025
Interview Date Range: 12/11/2025 – 19/11/2025
Contact Details: Methilda Vijayakumar – (02) 8738 7434 | 0460 023 348 | Methilda.Vijayakumar@health.nsw.gov.au
About the Opportunity:
Become part of a dedicated team where compassion and expertise come together.
The palliative care ward at Liverpool Hospital is a specialised 20-bed unit committed to providing comfort, dignity, and holistic support to patients facing life-limiting conditions, and ensuring every moment is meaningful.
Palliative care nursing is a profound blend of expertise and compassion, where every interaction brings comfort, dignity, and holistic support to patients and their families. A palliative care nurse plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality of life for patients with life-limiting conditions.
Main roles of a Palliative care nurse include:
Symptom management
Emotional and psychological support
Holistic care
Patient advocacy
Collaboration with healthcare teams
What You'll be Doing:
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:
Liverpool Hospital, founded in 1813, is the major health service for south-western Sydney, providing services to the local government area of Liverpool City Council as well as district services to residents and visitors in the area. It also provides a range of state-wide services in areas such as critical care and trauma, neonatal intensive care and brain injury rehabilitation.
The Hospital provides a health service of international standing, with 23 operating theatres, capacity for 877 beds, diagnostic and imaging services, emergency and trauma care, maternity, paediatric, cancer care, mental health, ambulatory care, allied health and medical and surgical services from birth to aged care.
Liverpool Hospital is currently undergoing a major redevelopment. The $790 million Liverpool Health and Academic Precinct (LHAP) project will provide enhanced facilities and an increased capacity to meet future significant population growth for South Western Sydney.
Liverpool Hospital is a principal referral and teaching Hospital of the UNSW Sydney and the Western Sydney University and also welcome students from over 20 universities and colleges.
Located in the heart of Liverpool City, the hospital is close to public transport, shopping centres and eateries.
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.
- Do you have current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse with Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA)?
- Please elaborate on how your skills and experiences align with the role requirements and highlight what you will bring to add value to the Palliative Care Ward.
- Share the main reasons for your application for this role and tell us what aspects of joining the Palliative Care Ward that motivates you
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Additional Information
Salary Packaging
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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.
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