Nursing and midwifery careers in Murrumbidgee

Our dedicated nursing and midwifery staff are highly respected and regarded. They are recognised for their quality of care, in-depth knowledge, and clinical skills.

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Why choose Murrumbidgee Local Health District (LHD)

Providing nursing and midwifery care to people within your own community is a rewarding experience.

We are always seeking passionate people including assistants in nursing, enrolled nurses, registered nurses (RN), registered midwives (RM), clinical nurses, midwife educators as well as nurse and midwifery managers. 

Going ‘rural’ and working in one of our regional hospitals or multipurpose services gives you a unique opportunity to broaden your skill mix through a range of varied daily presentations; no two days are ever the same working in one of our regional facilities. 

If you would prefer to specialise in a particular area of nursing, our district and base hospitals which are located in our larger towns, can provide you with the chance to further grow your career within your specific area of interest. 

For registered midwives we can provide rewarding opportunities in our larger hospitals including Cootamundra, Deniliquin, Leeton, Temora, Tumut, Young, Griffith and Wagga Wagga. 

We can offer RN/RM opportunities in many of our facilities, with specialist RM roles at both Griffith and Wagga Wagga Base Hospitals. 

A great place to live and work

A move to Murrumbidgee LHD is the start of a new way of life. Learn about our region and culture; the financial incentives and wellbeing programs we offer; and how we can help you make the move to Murrumbidgee.

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Nursing and midwifery careers

Career opportunities include:  

  • Aboriginal health 
  • aged care
  • community health 
  • emergency
  • general rural 
  • intensive care 
  • mental health 
  • midwifery 
  • operating theatre 
  • orthopaedic 
  • paediatrics 
  • rehabilitation.

GradStart - Nursing and Midwifery

We offer a comprehensive program for first year registered nurses (RNs) in many of our hospitals and direct entry registered midwives (RMs) into Griffith and Wagga Wagga Base Hospitals. 

Expand your clinical skills, while building on professional and organisational knowledge in our interesting and supportive clinical environments. 

We have a range of settings to choose from, including Wagga Wagga and Griffith Base Hospitals, district hospitals, multipurpose services, and health services. Each facility provides great opportunities to learn and explore different nursing environments. 

Our GradStart program offers:

  • a comprehensive 12 month program 
  • 2 x 6 month rotations (GradStart RN) 
  • GradStart RM program includes rotations  
  • full time and part time options 
  • intakes for February and August 
  • orientation and supernumerary at commencement of rotations 
  • five paid face to face study days 
  • monthly virtual in-services by a GradStart clinical nurse educator 
  • ongoing clinical nurse educator support at each facility/ward/unit 
  • scholarship positions at University Of Tasmania to complete Clinical Honours (Transition to Practice).
How to apply

NSW Health has more information on the application and recruitment process.  

Find out more about GradStart
See the GradStart 2025 Handbook
University of Tasmania Clinical Honours (Transition to Practice)

Murrumbidgee LHD is proud to partner with the University Of Tasmania (UTAS) to offer the Clinical Honours (Transition to Practice) for registered nurses. 

We can offer scholarship opportunities to GradStart program participants who enrol into the UTAS Clinical Honours (Transition to Practice) program. 

GradStart participants are welcome to enrol into the program once you have completed 6 months of the Murrumbidgee LHD GradStart program. 

When enrolled into the UTAS Clinical Honours (Transition to Practice) program you will study 4 online units that focus on advanced practice, leadership and policy as well as an elective post-graduate subject which can provide a pathway into postgraduate specialisation study. 

These study areas – along with your transition program – will complement your new career, enhance your knowledge, and ensure you’re prepared for the challenges of being a registered nurse. 

Graduates who complete Clinical Honours (Transition to Practice) will be given credit for two postgraduate units of study, which may be credited towards the Graduate Diploma of Nursing (depending on units selected). 

Find out more information on the UTAS website. 

Note - Scholarship opportunities to the value of 100% exist for Murrumbidgee LHD GradStart RN program participants, UTAS students are required to pay Student Services and Amenities fee. 

MidStart

Start your rewarding midwifery career through our Transition to Midwifery - MidStart Program 

Our maternity services have had undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery students for a number of years and we are committed to ensuring that all students receive the best opportunities during their learning experience.  

Our skilled and supportive team will provide a dynamic learning environment enabling student midwives to become safe and competent practitioners. We have excellent retention rates on completion of the program. 

All sites are supported by midwifery educators either based on site or within our district. 

Find out more about MidStart 

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Start your nursing and midwifery career at Murrumbidgee LHD

Hear from our Transition to Professional Practice, MidStart and Aboriginal Cadetship Program participants.

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Start your nursing and midwifery career at Murrumbidgee LHD

Mathew Ryan - Transition to Professional Practice Program

So, the NewGrad program, really for me, was to step out of my comfort zone. For the first six months, I started at  Holbrook Hospital. Although it's a small and quiet rural town, everyone's very friendly, everyone makes you feel as though you're welcome and that helps that makes me enjoy my job. Now my second rotation of NewGrad on the orthopedic ward at Wagga, from 7:00am to 3:30pm there's 
always something new to learn, from antibiotics to surgical wounds,it's nonstop.

Rebecca Willis - Aboriginal Cadetship Program

The Aboriginal cadetship programme, it's an Indigenous nursing and midwifery cadetship. Nursing, for me is about helping people, it's about helping my community, as well. Aboriginal community has a lot of chronic disease and there's a lot of health issues and being an Aboriginal nurse, it's a friendly face, it's being able to support community but it's also about supporting my family as well and having that 
stability so when I'm finished I'll have more clinical knowledge and more skills.

Jenny Tyrell - Nursing Leader

The beauty of being here in Murrumbidgee Local Health District, is the huge opportunities that you have to progress into the, the chosen field you may have and that may well be into a specialty area like intensive care or renal perioperative. We certainly got specialty programs in their second and third year of nursing, that allows you to enhance your scope in that area of knowledge and expertise.

Ashton Yates - MidStart Program

I commenced my MidStart program in Wagga in June this year. I have been able to work in a variety of areas including the antenatal clinic, the labour ward, postnatal floor and special care nursery. 

Rebecca Willis - Aboriginal Cadetship Program

I wouldn't have  been able to take on this degree if it wasn't for the program. It's the difference between working full-time and being able to work as an AIN 12  weeks a year and being paid for that, as well as 40 weeks a year you're paid to study. That's a huge opportunity for me as a single parent and it's the  difference between working and doing your degree.

Mathew Ryan - Transition to Professional Practice Program

So, some of the best things about the program is you're in a team environment and it's very team orientated. That's one of the main reasons why I've enjoyed the NewGrad program.

Jenny Tyrell - Nursing Leader

The beauty of being in a rural area, is that everyone is so involved in making sure that they succeed. They want these people to stay, whether it's here in Wagga, Griffith or any of the smaller sites throughout the District.

Ashton Yates - MidStart Program

I feel that we have a lot of support here in Wagga, from the educators, to the nurse unit managers as well as the lecturers out at Charles Sturt, all the staff on the whole maternity unit, the support is just endless.

Rebecca Willis - Aboriginal Cadetship Program

To anybody  who's thinking about getting into the cadetship, I advise you just to give it a go. It's an amazing opportunity and it's really worthwhile.

Ashton Yates - MidStart Program

I would recommend the MidStart program for any registered nurse, if you have that passion for midwifery, I would definitely recommend it because it's such a rewarding career. Being there for when the baby takes their first breath is indescribable.

So here at Murrumbidgee Local Health District, wellness is our goal, excellence is our passion, our people are our future. So come and be part of our team, we'd really love to see you.

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Murrumbidgee Local Health District

How to apply

Applications for the NSW Health 2025 MidStart open on 21 May 2024. 

NSW Health has more information on the application and recruitment process.  

Find out more about MidStart
You can see the MidStart Handbook

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Nursing in Griffith

Meet our dedicated nursing team caring for our Griffith community.

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MLHD We Love Leeton

Leeton is a vibrant and welcoming place to live and work.

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Aboriginal Nursing and Midwifery

Our team provides both quality care and cultural connection to our Indigenous population.

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Nursing in Griffith

Meet our dedicated nursing team caring for our Griffith community.

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Nursing in Griffith

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Tracey Costin - Nurse Unit Manager Paediatrics, Griffith Base Hospital, Murrumbidgee Local Health District

In a community like Griffith, even though it's a city, it's still a very community-focused town.

Kat Schwerin - Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith Base Hospital, Murrumbidgee Local Health District

Many staff actually live here locally, so they're very passionate about providing high care service to our community members. You just have to do your shopping or go to the gym or you know go for a run, you always run into someone you, you might provide a care to and how nice is it actually to see them well and talking positively about your service here, so that's something i'm really passionate about.

Tracey Costin - Nurse Unit Manager Paediatrics, Griffith Base Hospital, Murrumbidgee Local Health District

What I love most is, it's the interaction with the patients and their families, you know, it's it's holistic nursing.

Fiona McKern - Clinical Nurse Specialist, Intensive Care Unit, Griffith Base Hospital, Murrumbidgee Local Health District

I'm really excited to see the new hospital come along, we have a lot of technology here but we now need a little bit more room and I'm really excited to see that coming. The new paediatric award was opened on the 13th of October,  they've also opened the new non-clinical services building.

Tracey Costin - Nurse Unit Manager Paediatrics, Griffith Base Hospital, Murrumbidgee Local Health District

I'm very proud of the broad scope of practice that I've developed since working here in Griffith. It's the whole deal, you don't just specialise in one area like you would you know at a tertiary center. Here, you just do it all.

Hilary Fitzgerald - Clinical Midwife Educator, Griffith Base Hospital, Murrumbidgee Local Health District

I've moved my family internationally twice and this was without a doubt the easiest. Coming to work for the first time felt like I was walking in the door of somewhere that I've always been. I've come into a team who are hands down the happiest team I've ever worked with.

Kat Schwerin - Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith Base Hospital, Murrumbidgee Local Health District

We have so many career development opportunities.

Hilary Fitzgerald - Clinical Midwife Educator, Griffith Base Hospital, Murrumbidgee Local Health District

Our manager, he's really supportive in helping us develop ourselves so that we can develop our careers and progress and that's an opportunity that I don't feel like I've always had in places I've worked but I do have that here.

Tracey Costin - Nurse Unit Manager Paediatrics, Griffith Base Hospital, Murrumbidgee Local Health District

The lifestyle out here is beautiful, it's fresh air, you're close to everything.

Hilary Fitzgerald - Clinical Midwife Educator, Griffith Base Hospital, Murrumbidgee Local Health District

For the size of the town, Griffith has a really high concentration of really good restaurants. My husband's a chef, he's got quite high expectations when it comes to food.

Fiona McKern - Clinical Nurse Specialist, Intensive Care Unit, Griffith Base Hospital, Murrumbidgee Local Health District

There's a big creative group of people here in Griffith. Currently, I've settled into pottery. Having moved around, I don't think I can find anywhere else it quite matches it.

Hilary Fitzgerald - Clinical Midwife Educator, Griffith Base Hospital, Murrumbidgee Local Health District

This is a really exciting time for us here at Griffith and we want people to come and be part of that.

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