* Unique locations
Your Next Clinical Leadership Opportunity Starts in Burketown.
Take on an advanced practice leadership role at Burketown Primary Health Care Centre. As a Clinical Nurse Consultant, you'll provide expert clinical care, coordinate services, and support high quality outcomes for a unique and close knit Gulf community.
About The Role
This role includes coordinating complex patient care, supporting quality improvement, and contributing to a positive workplace culture aligned with the Nursing and Midwifery Professional Practice Model (PPM). You'll play a key part in delivering safe, responsive, culturally appropriate care to the Burketown community, one of the most distinctive and rewarding remote locations in the Gulf region.
* Provide advanced clinical leadership, coordination, and direct nursing care while supervising and supporting Health Workers.
* Use electronic clinical systems (e.g., Communicare, EDIS, iPharmacy, Auscare) to enhance patient care and continuity of service.
* Contribute to service development, quality improvement, and portfolio responsibilities within the Burketown PHCC framework.
Working with us
* For 1 year will get you an isolation bonus of AUD$3,605. If you stay for 2 years you will get AUD$10,815... and for your 3rd year (and every year after that) you will get AUD$7,210 (pro rata for part time employees).
In your downtime, we will provide 2 return airfares p.a. (full time employees) (inc. spouse/dependents) or 1 return airfare p.a. (part time employees) to the nearest east coast provincial city in conjunction with your recreation leave.
* 12.75% employer superannuation contribution.
* Long Service Leave and Sick Leave accrual.
* Tax savings through salary sacrificing options are also available.
Plus 2 weeks p.a., travel as required and enrolment and conference costs for approved courses and conferences.
We also offer staff accommodation (if eligible) or a private rental subsidy of AUD$82.50 per week for up to 17 months.
Professionally, our HHS values professionalism, leadership capability, excellence and resilience in our staff. We are committed to providing extraordinary opportunities for career development including in-house training, development and mentoring programs.
Requirements
* Mandatory requirements are a relevant tertiary degree qualification and appropriate registration/licences.
* C Class Motor Vehicle Licence.
* Pre-employment screening will be conducted for the successful applicant, including Criminal History checks.
* This is a VPD risk role and may require evidence of vaccination or immunity to: Hepatitis A/B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, and Tuberculosis.
* A period of probation may apply.
About North West Hospital And Health Service
The North West Hospital and Health Service (NWHHS) delivers public health services across approximately 300,000 square kilometres, supporting remote communities throughout North Western Queensland and the Gulf of Carpentaria. We are committed to promoting community wellbeing and providing high-quality, accessible and effective healthcare for all.
* Unique locations
* Friendly communities
* Regional, rural and remote $$$ incentives
Burketown sits on the Albert River and on the east-west dividing line between the wetlands to the north and the beginning of the savannah grass plains (Plains of Promise) to the south, some 25 kilometres from the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Interested?
Download the Role Description for further information and application / interview preparation.
Contact: Sandra Bettles on (07) 4745 5555.
Applications close: Thursday, 16 April 2026.