Employment Type: Permanent Full Time/Part Time, up to 38 hours per week
Location: Liverpool Hospital Mental Health Service
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $36.38 - $51.08 per hour
Requisition ID: REQ610622
Application Close Date: 19/10/2025
Interview Date Range: 22/10/2025 - 29/10/2025
Contact Details: Suresh Shrestha - suresh.shrestha@health.nsw.gov.au
About the Opportunity
South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) Mental Health Services is seeking enthusiastic and experienced Registered Nurses (RNs) to join our Nurse Bank. This is a unique chance for mental health nurses at all levels to gain valuable experience in different specialties within inpatient mental health services.
As a Nurse Bank member, you will:
- Be employed as a permanent full-time or part-time nurse, with the flexibility to be seconded to various inpatient units.
- Contribute to improved clinical safety by providing a stable, well-orientated workforce.
- Fill roles covering long-term leave, maternity leave, or higher-grade duties across the district.
- Receive the same leave entitlements and performance development support as regular employees.
We are seeking nurses who are adaptable, proactive, and committed to providing high-quality mental health care. This is a great opportunity to broaden your experience across different specialties and settings while making a meaningful impact on patient care.
What You'll Be Doing
The Registered Nurse will provide safe, compassionate, quality, person centred care and work in collaboration with patients/families/carers and a multidisciplinary team to achieve identified goals and outcomes. South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) is focused on achieving our Vision of Leading Care, healthier communities.
All staff are expected to act as an appropriate and effective role model, promoting a culture that supports practices that reflect the NSW Health CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment through demonstrated behaviors and interactions with patients, clients and employees.
The vision of SWSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Service is Compassionate Nursing and Midwifery Care Always, through leading effective workplace cultures that improve the patient experience.
Where You'll Be Working
SWSLHD Inpatient Mental Health Services provide comprehensive care across several facilities, including the newly redeveloped Campbelltown Hospital and Liverpool Hospital. These services offer a safe and therapeutic environment for individuals with acute and non-acute mental health needs.
The multidisciplinary teams, consisting of professionals with diverse mental health expertise, deliver exceptional care through specialised units such as the Mental Health Intensive Care Unit, Adult Acute Unit, and Older People's Mental Health Unit. The service is committed to patient safety and high-quality care, maintaining external accreditation with the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards.
With active teaching and research links to various universities, SWSLHD Inpatient Mental Health Services provide excellent opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
Working here means being part of a dedicated team focused on improving mental health outcomes and making a positive impact on the community.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.
- Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse with Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Demonstrated recent experience as a Registered Nurse in an environment appropriate to the relevant speciality.
- Demonstrated ability to provide safe compassionate quality care that is culturally responsive.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and engage with patients/consumers, carers and the multidisciplinary health care team to identify and ensure responsiveness of care needs.
- Demonstrated capacity to interact with others in a personable and professional manner and personally resolve conflicts when they arise.
- Demonstrated evidence of the use of critical thinking as it relates to the delivery of evidenced based nursing care.
- Demonstrated understanding and participation in risk management, work health and safety and quality improvement in the workplace.
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Additional Information
Salary Packaging
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.
Health & Fitness
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
At South Western Sydney 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.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
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📌 Registered Nurse - Inpatient Mental Health Service - Perm FT/PT
🏢 South Western Sydney Local Health District
📍 Liverpool