Nurse Manager (Grd 3) - Cancer Therapy Centre - Temp FT
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time, 38 hours per week until 11/07/2026
Location: Liverpool Hospital
Position Classification: Nurse Manager Grade 3
Remuneration: $ 2756.90 - $ 2808.10 per week
Requisition ID: REQ624073
Application Close Date: 07/12/2025
Interview Date Range: 10/12/2025 – 17/12/2025
Contact Details: Kelly Paddock – 0459 824 830 | Kelly.Paddock@health.nsw.gov.au
About the Opportunity:
Liverpool Hospital is seeking a passionate and experienced Nurse Manager Grade 3 to lead our Cancer Therapy Centre supporting high quality patient centred care across our oncology, apheresis, day therapy and ambulatory service areas. In this pivotal leadership role, you will oversee nursing services within a complex and dynamic environment, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care while optimising resources.
Liverpool Hospital is undergoing a major redevelopment, the Liverpool Health and Academic Precinct, to enhance its cancer services as part of a larger $830 million project. This will create an Integrated Cancer Centre combining inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostics, and clinical research, including an on site wellness centre. Stage 2 of the redevelopment is currently underway and includes a new multi-storey building for these new Cancer Services.
As part of our vision of Leading Care, Healthier Communities, you will champion a culture of collaboration, openness, respect, and empowerment, modelling the NSW Health CORE values in every interaction.
This is your opportunity to make a lasting impact by fostering compassionate care and driving professional growth. You will provide strategic leadership, mentor and develop staff, and ensure compliance with professional standards and legislation. Your ability to communicate effectively with patients, carers, and multidisciplinary teams will be key to enhancing the patient experience. If you are committed to excellence, innovation, and empowering others, join us in delivering Compassionate Nursing and Midwifery Care Always at SWSLHD.
What You'll Be Doing:
The Nurse Manager participates in or is responsible for the leadership and management of nursing services in a management unit, service, complex function or facility to ensure the delivery of high quality patient care and efficient use of resources.
Where you'll be working:
Liverpool Hospital, founded in 1813, is the major health service for south-western Sydney, providing services to the local government area of Liverpool City Council as well as district services to residents and visitors in the area. It also provides a range of state-wide services in areas such as critical care and trauma, neonatal intensive care and brain injury rehabilitation.
The Hospital provides a health service of international standing, with 23 operating theatres, capacity for 877 beds, diagnostic and imaging services, emergency and trauma care, maternity, paediatric, cancer care, mental health, ambulatory care, allied health and medical and surgical services from birth to aged care.
Liverpool Hospital is currently undergoing a major redevelopment. The $790 million Liverpool Health and Academic Precinct (LHAP) project will provide enhanced facilities and an increased capacity to meet future significant population growth for South Western Sydney.
Liverpool Hospital is a principal referral and teaching Hospital of the UNSW Sydney and the Western Sydney University and also welcome students from over 20 universities and colleges.
Located in the heart of Liverpool City, the hospital is close to public transport, shopping centres and eateries.
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 the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and Relevant post graduate qualifications or equivalent work experience or a combination of study and experience deemed appropriate by SWSLHD.
- Give a brief overview of what education training and clinically relevant experience you bring with you to the role?
- Can you describe a time when you led a nursing team in a complex clinical setting and successfully managed human, physical, and financial resources to deliver safe, compassionate, and culturally responsive care? What strategies did you use to balance quality outcomes with resource constraints?
- Tell us about an experience where you had to implement organisational change or a quality improvement initiative within your service. How did you engage with patients, carers, and the multidisciplinary team to ensure responsiveness to care needs, and how did you address any conflicts or performance issues that arose during the process?
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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.
