Employment Type: Temporary Full Time up to December 2025
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 2
Remuneration: $131,870.90 - $134,500.70 per annum plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ614526
Application Close: Sunday 02 November 2025

Clinical Nurse Consultant General Medicine - Temporary Fulltime to 5 Dec 2025 - NERLU - Sydney/Sydney Eye Hospital

Benefits:

• A workplace culture with a foundation that promotes person centred care approaches and staff wellbeing
• Orientation and supported transition into your new role
• Targeted clinical stream education programs affiliated with university partners
• Development pathways that are aimed at career progression
• Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave
• Salary Packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing
• Corporate health and fitness program, discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members
• Discounted Private Health Insurance
• Established partnerships with Universities that promote cutting edge research in well being, education and teaching.
• Opportunity to apply for Continuing Education allowance based on tertiary qualifications attained where applicable
• Opportunity to obtain Clinical Nurse Specialist status where relevant

For more information on careers and benefits of working for SESLHD, visit our page.

Where you'll be working

Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital is steeped in history, with a legacy of nursing and medical firsts to its credit and has paved the way in many clinical areas - both nationally and internationally.

Sydney Hospital is Australia's first hospital and dates from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788.

Today, Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospitals’ state of the art facilities and professional staff provide a unique blend of general and specialist medical services for the public and community, including a 24 hour emergency services, general medicine including close observation unit, perioperative services, specialist hand and eye surgery.

The Hospital is in the heart of the Central Business District in Sydney:

• Directly across the road from Martin Place and St James Station
• Walking distance to various Bus stops
• The light rail is a walking distance on George St and the metro station
• Walking distance Ferry Terminal at Circular Quay
• For Staff who drive to work, subsidised parking is available on site

What you'll be doing

The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is'exceptional care,healthier lives'. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.

The Nursing and Midwifery-Our Strategy for Transforming Person Centred Cultures 2024-2029 guides our profession in the development of effective person-centred practice and healthful cultures within SESLHD. We advocate for shared decision-making, collaborative relationships, compassionate and person-centred leadership, and supporting innovative practices.

The Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital provides general and specialist health care to the public and the community including 24-hour emergency care services, acute/chronic general medicine, perioperative services, day procedure surgery and surgical hand. The Hospital is a quaternary referral centre for eye health conditions and disorders, providing eye emergency care and the delivery of extended diagnostic capabilities and treatments for complex eye conditions requiring ophthalmic care management. Additionally, SSEH's Hand Unit is a tertiary referral centre for hand trauma, abnormalities and diseases of the hand.

Encompassing SSEH is a 25-bed inpatient ward specialising in general acute/chronic medicine with 6 beds for patients requiring cardiac monitoring. This ward provides care management for patients with acute cardiorespiratory, neurology, rheumatology, renal and gastroenterology health disorders. The ward cares for patients with Drug and Alcohol issues, who are collaboratively cared for by the Drug and Alcohol team.
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