Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
Far West Local Health District
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Job summary
Far West Local Health District is seeking a dedicated Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in Broken Hill/Buronga NSW. The role involves comprehensive assessment, diagnostics interpretation, and delivering advanced palliative care across settings.
Required: APRA/NMB registration as a nurse, NP endorsement, and postgraduate qualifications in palliative care, with significant post-registration experience. Travel within Far West LHD may be required.
Qualifications
- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.
- Nurse Practitioner endorsement required.
- Postgraduate qualifications relevant to Palliative Care preferred.
- Minimum 5 years full-time post-registration experience; 3+ years in palliative care.
Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive assessment and interpretation of diagnostics.
- Implement treatment modalities within specialist palliative care.
- Deliver independent and collaborative expert palliative care nursing.
- Lead and participate in multidisciplinary team care and education.
Skills
Education
Job description
This position qualifies for an annual Recruitment Incentive Package up to the value of $10,000 (conditions apply and may be pro‑rated to your contracted or ordinary working hours, these payments are paid on a fortnightly basis) under the NSW Health Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme.
This scheme recognises the role key health workers play in enabling the delivery of rural and remote health services, and aims to provide incentives over and above award entitlements, to attract and retain staff in these areas.
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Nurse Practitioner
Remuneration: $158,236.73 - $169,429.03 +Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ690972
Location: Broken Hill NSW or Buronga NSW
We really aren’t that far away - only 3 hours’ drive from Mildura, 5 hours from Adelaide or a short flight from anywhere in Australia.
- Great opportunity to join a supportive team and where you can make a real impact in providing the best patient experience.
- We really aren’t that far away - only 3 hours’ drive from Mildura, 5 hours from Adelaide or a short flight from anywhere in Australia.
Broken Hill truly is a town like no other with a supportive community that will welcome you with open arms. We can't wait to see you! Take a quick look at "Living and Working" in the Far West.
The Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner (NP) is an advanced practice role comprising comprehensive assessment, interpretation of diagnostics, and implementation of treatment modalities within the Specialist Palliative Care setting. Palliative Care NP provides independent and collaborative expert palliative care nursing for patients with life limiting illness, particularly in complex cases and across care settings
- Salary packaging (pay less tax!), includes Remote Area Housing Assistance and Meal Entertainment Card
- Paid Allocated Day Off (ADO) Every Month
- Special rates at local gyms
- Fitness passport
- Support through advanced education & training
- A comfortable country lifestyle that supports balance & wellbeing
The Far West Local Health District is one of 15 LHDs under NSW Health, providing high quality public health services to the communities in far west NSW. Our vision is to create excellence in rural and remote healthcare.
Key to our success of course, is our people. Our workforce is inclusive and diverse. We employ well over 800 clinicians and support staff across our 9 health facilities in Broken Hill, Balranald, Dareton, Ivanhoe, Menindee, Tibooburra, Wentworth, White Cliffs and Wilcannia.
In the Far West LHD, we are working together to make a real difference to the health outcomes for our communities. We encourage you to consider joining our friendly team for a meaningful and rewarding career in rural and remote healthcare.
A true “Oasis in the Outback”, Broken Hill is a thriving regional town in far west NSW full of diversity, history and character. Being Australia’s first city to be Nationally Heritage Listed, Broken Hill is a culturally rich town with a vibrant art scene with over 20 galleries! The unique attractions, festivals and beautiful natural landscapes see tourists flock from all over, but the ones who stay quickly fall in love with the place and its liveability.
With a population just shy of 20,000, Broken Hill is small enough to allow for a relaxed country lifestyle, while big enough to provide all the desired facilities of a regional hub including major supermarkets and retail stores, excellent schools (7 primary & 2 high), multiple gyms & aquatic centre, well-known fast-food franchises and a plethora of trendy restaurants, pubs and cafés.
On the NSW side of the Murray River, Buronga is a beautiful rural town, just 10km from Mildura Victoria, many of our staff live in the booming regional hub of Mildura and travel the short 10 minutes to work. Mildura has a population of over 50,000 and growing with all the facilities of a regional city, yet is uniquely positioned in the scenic, sunraysia region, famous for its sunshine, and horticulture including grapes and oranges. While Mildura thrives as its own destination, it is also a great base for touring many iconic natural wonders and picturesque locations nearby including the world renowned Mungo National Park!
The Welcome Experience 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
25th October 2026
The Stepping Up Website is a resource designed to help Aboriginal job applicants apply for positions within NSW Health. If you are an Aboriginal person and wish to obtain more information about applying for a role with us, please visit: https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/
Empower, listen and act together
Together, we can make a positive difference in the lives of all children, young people and families within our community to keep them safe from harm and to empower children's voices.
At Far West 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.
- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery board of Australia and endorsement by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Nurse Practitioner with a minimum of 5 years full time equivalent post registration experience and at least 3 years full time experience in Palliative Care with post graduate qualifications relevant to Palliative Care.
- Demonstrated high level knowledge and advanced clinical nursing skills including comprehensive assessment, interpretation of diagnostics, implementation of treatment modalities including pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures, and relevant referral skills applied to a broad range of challenging, complex and changing palliative care situations.
- Demonstrated advanced clinical leadership role, negotiation, liaison, interpersonal and problem solving skills within the Palliative Care setting.
- Demonstrated ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and accountability while also working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary and multi service environment.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and implement change and improvements in clinical practice through initiation, utilisation and review of evidence based research and participation in peer review, quality assurance, quality improvement, patient safety and risk management activities relevant to Palliative Care.
- Demonstrated ability to actively contribute to own continuing professional development and demonstrated experience in providing education and training to other health professionals.
- Current Drivers Licence and willingness to travel with the Far West LHD, which may involve overnight stays.
- Current Drivers Licence and willingness to travel within the Far West LHD.
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