Nursing careers in Southern NSW

A nursing career offers opportunities to develop new skills and take on new challenges. Make a lasting contribution to patients you care for and the community. 

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Why choose Southern Local Health District (LHD)

Join our dynamic nursing team and become part of a healthcare community that values your expertise and dedication.

Southern NSW LHD offers an inclusive and supportive environment where you can provide exceptional patient care. We emphasize work-life balance, professional growth, and empowerment for our nurses.

Whether you're an experienced nurse or just starting your journey, we have opportunities that will enable you to make a meaningful impact in patient lives. 

A great place to live and work

Southern NSW has so much to offer, from beaches, to the countryside, to the snowfields. When you join our diverse region, you'll get a better work life balance and a range of incentives.

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Three Southern NSW LHD nurses having a break outside

Professional pathways

Expand your career opportunities with our range of training programs, scholarships and cadetships.

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)

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MidStart

Southern participates in NSW Health's MidStart program, a pathway for registered nurses to become registered midwives.

The program involves employment as a student midwife at one of our maternity units while undertaking a postgraduate midwifery diploma at university. Recruitment is carried out annually between June and September for all training positions in the following year.  You will be partnered with a mentor from our Mentoring in Midwifery program to support your professional growth.

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Aboriginal nurses and midwives

The NSW Aboriginal Nursing and Midwifery Strategy aims to improve Aboriginal health by providing opportunities for Aboriginal peoples to gain education and employment opportunities in the field of nursing and midwifery.

It also aims to work with the current NSW nursing and midwifery workforce to provide better health services to Aboriginal people through the delivery of culturally safe and competent nursing and midwifery services. 

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Meet our team

Come to Southern

Find your career at Southern NSW LHD

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Come to Southern

Find your career at Southern NSW LHD

Video transcript

Come to Southern

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Sarah Hennessy - Clinical Nurse Educator, Moruya

When you become a nurse, you really commit a lot of your life to creating a positive impact in other people's lives. You give a lot of yourself, but you get an awful lot back.

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[On-screen text] Come to Southern

Cara Young - Nurse Unit Manager, Moruya

I love what I do. I love serving my community.

Benjamin Burnett - Registered Nurse, Goulburn

It's such a good support network, we really do support each other and the friendships that I have made from that, I know they're going to be long lasting ones.

Sarah Hennessy - Clinical Nurse Educator, Moruya

I love it here. I feel completely supported and um checked in on regularly with how I'm coping and how I'm and how I'm engaging and how I'm feeling in this process. I love that my ideas are being listened to and this is something that I think you'll definitely find here.

Laura Davidson - Clinical Midwife Educator, Cooma

Rural is just such a special place to be, a much less hustle and bustle than the city.

Sarah Hennessy - Clinical Nurse Educator, Moruya

Not only do I feel that I have great career possibilities here, but I can actually see career progression unfolding in front of me.

Julie Hankinson - Clinical Nurse Educator, Moruya

If you've got an interest in learning and trying new things, there's so many more opportunities in regional hospitals than what you would get in tertiary centres.

Sarah Hennessy - Clinical Nurse Educator, Moruya

You can specialise, you can generalise, you can do almost anything here - it's great.

Benjamin Burnett - Registered Nurse, Goulburn

The facilities that we now have in our, in our hospitals, in the area are state-of-the-art. It has made our job so much easier when we've got the proper equipment, the proper facilities to actually care for people.

Sarah Hennessy - Clinical Nurse Educator, Moruya

They'll help you with accommodation when you first arrive and you'll immediately feel connected to the community

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Belinda Toohey - Registered Nurse

You have beautiful places to explore here, you've got farmland, you've got beaches a quick trip to the snow - there's something for everybody.

Julie Hankinson - Clinical Nurse Educator, Moruya

There is surfing, there's dragon boating, there's surf life saving, there's snorkeling, there's hiking, there's four wheel driving. There are so many things, our weekends are full of the next thing to look for and our work-life balance is absolutely awesome. I love working here.

Benjamin Burnett - Registered Nurse, Goulburn

And there's plenty of nature here waiting for you too when you come out to the country.

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Sarah Hennessy - Clinical Nurse Educator, Moruya

The lifestyle is great, my family is thriving and your downtime is unbelievable there's so much to do here just come really just, just come.

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