Start Your Nursing Journey With Confidence – Join Our 2026 Enrolled Nurse Graduate Program
We are excited to welcome applications for our new Enrolled Nurse Graduate Program across Bayside Health Service. Kick-start your nursing career and gain hands-on experience, dedicated support and clinical confidence across diverse care settings.
Your new role:
This 12 month program supports emerging nurses to build strong clinical foundations, gain supervised practice across diverse care settings, and begin a meaningful and rewarding career in healthcare.
What you will experience in this role:
* Structured graduate-year support and mentorship
* Opportunities across multiple clinical areas
* Professional development, study days and skills consolidation
* Employment within one of Queensland's largest and most diverse health services
* A collaborative, inclusive and values-driven environment
About you:
You are passionate about delivering safe, person-centred care. You are eager to learn, committed to professional growth and able to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. You demonstrate compassion, accountability and enthusiasm for developing your skills in a fast-paced clinical environment.
In alignment with our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan 2025–2028, we are actively working to increase workforce representation and improve employment outcomes for priority groups, including First Nations peoples and people with disability.
Applicants who can contribute to these workforce priorities, particularly First Nations applicants and applicants with disability will be positively regarded in line with our action plan commitments and are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Eligibility:
* Hold appropriate Australian work rights
* Recent completion (or near completion) of Diploma of Nursing
* Registration (or eligibility for registration) as an EN with AHPRA
* Have not completed more than 480 hours of EN practice since qualifying (approx. 3 months full-time)
How to apply:
Complete the online questionnaire, which assesses your qualities, experience and alignment with the Domains of Practice and Specialist Clinical Knowledge.
Upload the following documents:
* Current CV/resume
* Clinical Placement Reports (e.g. ANSAT), preferably from your final year and completed by two different supervisors or educators involved in your clinical training
* Certified* copies of yourqualification/s and Academic Transcript/s showing all final grades, provider logo and results legend
*Justice of the Peace, commissioner of declarations, barrister or solicitor or notary public
Please note: Missing documents will result in an incomplete application that cannot be progressed.
What we can offer you:
* We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions
* We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
* You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
We are better together.