Facility Nurse Manager - Batlow / Adelong

Murrumbidgee Local Health District; Batlow; On-site; AUD 158,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

12% superannuation

Relocation assistance considerations

Short term free accommodation for 12 +

NSW Rural Health Workforce Incentive (

Up to $20k NSW Rural Health Workforce+

Job summary

Murrumbidgee Local Health District in Batlow/Adelong is seeking a Facility Nurse Manager to lead regional health services on a temporary basis until 5 June 2027. This senior role focuses on operational and professional leadership, improving quality and safety, and workforce development across local health services.

You will oversee budgeting, resource utilisation, and partnerships with multidisciplinary teams while supporting contemporary models of care in a regional NSW setting.

Qualifications

• Current RN registration with AHPRA and experience suitable for Nurse Manager Grade 3.
• Demonstrated leadership and management experience in healthcare.
• Qualifications in health management or related field, or progress toward.
• Ability to lead complex services, budgets, and workforce planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational and professional leadership across Batlow/Adelong health services.
• Lead teams with performance management and workforce development.
• Champion quality, safety, and person-centred care.
• Oversee budgets, resources, and service priorities.

Skills

Leadership

Nurse management

Budget management

Quality & safety

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Communication skills

Education

RN registration (AHPRA)

Health management qualification

Job description

Facility Nurse Manager – Batlow/Adelong

Take the next step in your nursing leadership career with a unique temporary opportunity to lead healthcare services across Batlow and Adelong. Join our team as Facility Nurse Manager – Batlow/Adelong in this full-time temporary leadership opportunity until 5 June 2027. Whether you’re ready to step into a senior leadership role, broaden your management experience or bring established leadership skills to a new community, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact while gaining valuable experience across regional health services.

• Employment type: Temporary Full-Time (until 5th June 2027)
• Position classification: Nurse Manager – Grade 3
• Renumeration: $158,236.73 - $161,174.38 per annum (+ super + 17.5% leave loading where applicable)
• Hours per week: 38
• Requisition ID: REQ702031
• Location: Batlow/Adelong

About the role

As the Facility Nurse Manager – Batlow/Adelong, you’ll step into a temporary senior leadership opportunity, providing operational and professional leadership across local health services. This defined-term opportunity is ideal for an experienced nurse leader looking to broaden their management experience, take on a new professional challenge or make an impact within regional healthcare. You’ll influence service delivery, promote excellence in quality and patient safety, strengthen workforce capability and lead continuous improvement. You’ll also oversee workforce and resource utilisation, support contemporary models of care and strengthen relationships with multidisciplinary teams, community-based services and healthcare partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop your teams, providing strong professional leadership, clinical supervision, performance management and opportunities to build workforce capability
• Champion quality, safety and person-centred care, maintaining professional standards and driving ongoing service and practice improvement.
• Shape responsive and sustainable services through operational planning, workforce planning and the implementation of contemporary models of care.
• Manage resources effectively, including staffing profiles, workforce utilisation, budgets, assets and competing service priorities.
• Lead positive change and build strong partnerships with multidisciplinary teams, primary and community-based services and external healthcare providers to support coordinated care.

Why Move to Batlow / Adelong?

Make your next career move one that offers leadership, community connection and a change of pace. Batlow and Adelong offer the opportunity to build your career in regional NSW while becoming part of communities where local healthcare makes a visible difference. This role gives you the chance to lead services close to the community, build meaningful relationships with staff and healthcare partners, and help shape care around local needs. With relocation assistance considerations, short-term free accommodation for 12 weeks and potential rural workforce incentives, making the move could be more achievable than you think.

Our benefits:

Financial

• 12% superannuation
• Salary packaging and novated leasing
• Annual leave with 17.5% leave loading (for full-time and part-time staff)
• Relocation assistance considerations
• Short term free accommodation for 12 weeks
• Up to $20k NSW Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme + $10k rolling annual incentive (incentive value dependent on full-time equivalent, position and location).

Work-Life Balance

• Flexible work options, including hybrid and varied hours (depending on the role)
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• Generous leave options including long service and carers leave

Health & Wellbeing

• Discounted gym membership through Fitness Passport
• Free and confidential support for staff and their families via our Staff Wellbeing and Support Service (EAP)
• Wellbeing programs that promote mental health, resilience and balance

What We’re Looking For:

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA, with experience appropriate to a Nurse Manager Grade 3 position.
• Demonstrated leadership and management experience, supported by qualifications in health management, health policy and planning, business or equivalent, or progress towards relevant qualifications.
• A confident and engaging leader who can motivate and inspire teams, manage change and create a positive culture focused on quality and service excellence.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex services, budgets, workforce requirements and competing operational priorities, with the ability to develop financial efficiency strategies.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and relationship-management skills, including the ability to engage clinicians, managers, staff and other key stakeholders and effectively manage conflict.
• Demonstrated understanding of accreditation, quality and safety improvement, along with a current Class C driver’s licence and willingness to travel for work purposes.

Applications close: 12 November 2026

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.

MLHD values diversity and is committed to building an inclusive workplace culture that reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from diverse community groups including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTI, people with a disability and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicants can access recruitment application support through the Stepping Up initiative. NSW Health is committed to implementing the Child Safe Standards.