Nurse Practitioner/Transitional Nurse Practitioner - Port Macquarie

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Nurse Practitioner/Transitional Nurse Practitioner
Remuneration: $143,851.10 - $154,025.92
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ661794
Advertising Closes: 11 June 2026

Employment with Mid North Coast LHD requires candidates to hold a valid authority to work in Australia (Aust Work Rights Visa). 

About the Role

The Transitional Nurse Practitioner Aged Care is an advanced practice nursing role delivering autonomous, high-quality, person-centred care across residential aged care facilities, community settings, and acute health services. Working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, the Nurse Practitioner provides comprehensive assessment, clinical decision making, diagnostic reasoning, and evidence-based therapeutic interventions to support older people with complex health and psychogeriatric needs.

This role is integral in reducing avoidable hospital presentations, supporting early discharge, and improving continuity of care through proactive management, home visits, and strong partnerships with Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs). The Nurse Practitioner demonstrates expert clinical leadership through mentoring, education, quality improvement, policy development, and research activities, while advocating for safe, innovative, and integrated models of care. Practicing within the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Nurse Practitioner Standards Framework, the role promotes excellence in patient safety, clinical governance, and the delivery of holistic care that enhances health outcomes for older people and their families.

This is a Full-Time permanent role based at Port Macquarie Base Hospital.

About You

You are a highly experienced Registered Nurse with current registration through the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and a strong commitment to advanced practice within aged care and psychogeriatric services. You are either endorsed as a Nurse Practitioner or actively progressing toward endorsement, with the capability and dedication to meeting all requirements within the designated timeframe.

With more than three years of extensive post-registration clinical experience, you will have developed advanced autonomous practice skills across aged care settings, with expertise in managing complex physical, cognitive, mental health, and psychosocial needs of older people. Your postgraduate qualifications in Aged Care/Psychogeriatrics underpin your comprehensive approach to assessment, clinical decision making, diagnostics, and evidence-based prescribing and therapeutic interventions.

You are recognised for your strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to mentor, educate, and support multidisciplinary teams while fostering collaborative and person-centred care. You are passionate about integrating current research and evidence into clinical practice to improve patient outcomes, drive quality improvement initiatives, and support safe, innovative models of care.

You are committed to delivering high quality, holistic care that promotes dignity, independence, and wellbeing for older people, while contributing positively to service development and patient safety initiatives and you hold a current NSW driver’s licence and am willing to travel to support service delivery across diverse healthcare settings.

Diversity and Inclusion lies at the heart of how we recruit

Mid North Coast Local Health District is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects and understands the community we serve. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace culture where everyone feels respected, valued and that they belong. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from candidates of all cultures, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences.

We encourage you to reach out if you require any adjustments or assistance during the recruitment process to ensure you have every opportunity to showcase your talent, skills, and potential. Please contact our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Manager.

This is a Category B position. Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive for Category B positions prior to offer. 

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Salary will be accordance with NSW Health State Awards for the advertised classification/s.  These awards are available at http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/careers/conditions/pages/default.aspx.

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