Make a new start in your career and life. Join a welcoming, supportive healthcare community, with professional development opportunities + more!

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Gde 3
Remuneration: $143,851.10 - $146,522.64 per annum
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ620110

Applications Close: 26 November 2026

About the role

The Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) Tissue Viability provides an advanced level wound assessment and management service as an expert in the specialty field and facilitates linkages and relationships with network hospitals (and affiliated services), nurses and medical officers (in the acute and community settings) to support the management of patients with acute, chronic and complex wounds.

The CNC is responsible for the provision of expert clinical advice, coordination, leadership and consultancy services within the wound assessment and management service and target populations within the designated network.
Responsibilities include:

• Development, implementation and evaluation of care management plans for patients with complex health needs.
• Providing leadership in the ongoing development of clinical practice.
• Initiating and utilising findings of research in the provision of clinical services.
• Contributing to the development and delivery of specialty related education programs

• Participating in formal processes for the strategic and operational planning for the clinical service

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.

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

Need more information?

Click here for the Position Description
Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions contact Clare Rees on [email protected]

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NNNSWLHD 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 (PD2024_015).

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 positions for permanent, temporary and casual positions.

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Discover the balance. Enjoy more flexibility, diverse career pathways, the opportunity to learn and grow, salary packaging + more.

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Gde 1
Remuneration: $130,524.69 - $133191.02 per annum
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ614852

About the role

Tweed Community & Allied Health have an exciting career opportunity for a Clinical Nurse Consultant to provide clinical leadership and facilitating a coordinated, high quality palliative care service to the local community, with a case coordination model that involves generalist community nurses in providing direct clinical care. Providing a multidisciplinary approach, with an end goal of improving quality of life for those patients and their carers.
Working with members of the palliative care nursing team across the inpatient and community settings, providing a consultative and liaison focussed service aimed at supporting GPs, Community Nurses and the Residential Aged Care Facilities in the assessment, care and management of patients with life limiting illnesses.

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.

Working in Community & Allied Health

Join the vibrant team of professionals who enjoy a fulfilling career providing community and allied health services in beautiful regional NSW. Community and Allied Health in Northern NSW Local Health District offers a diverse range of rewarding employment and professional opportunities.

Providing services across the life span from antennal to end of life care, we offer generous access to professional development and education opportunities, clinical supervision and support, and a range of health and wellbeing strategies.With a focus on client driven service improvement and compassionate and empowered care we aim to provide staff with a welcoming and engaging work environment to improve health outcomes and make a positive impact on the lives of many people and the community.

Learn more about how you can work with a collaborative, cooperative, and respectful team while enjoying endless opportunities for professional and personal growth.

You care. We care. Learn more about NNSWLHD here.

www.nsw.gov.au/welcomeexperience

Need 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 Louise Thurston on [email protected]

Applications Close: 12 November 2026

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 (PD2024_015).

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 positions for permanent, temporary and casual positions.

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Live and work in a place of great beauty, rich and diverse in culture and creativity. Enjoy a lifestyle that allows time and space to learn and grow.

Employment Type: Temporary Part Time (40 weeks)
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Specialist Gde 2
Remuneration: $113,243.15 - $116,963.48 per annum pro rata
Hours Per Week: 32
Requisition ID: REQ605678

About the role

Clarence Community & Allied Health have a temporary vacancy for a Clinical Nurse Specialist to join their team to provide care coordination, case management and support to people with chronic disease, their carers, General Practitioners, practice staff and staff involved in the provision of care. Working with relevant stake holders to ensure coordination of services, utilising shared care plans and other team care approaches to optimally support people with chronic disease within the framework of the Chronic Disease Management Service.

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.

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
  

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 (PD2024_015).

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 positions for permanent, temporary and casual positions.

Follow us on: LinkedIn and Facebook

#communityhealth #communityandalliedhealth #nursingandmidwifery