Nurse Manager, Transfer of Care - Lismore

High quality healthcare. Quality of life. Learn and grow in your career and in your life with more opportunities and more flexibility.

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Nurse Manager Grade 2
Remuneration: $135,826.04 - $138,534.10 per annum 
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ657323


You may be eligible for the Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme. For further information, please contact NNSWLHD-WorkforceIncentives@health.nsw.gov.au or visit Careers Incentives Package


About the role

Lismore Base Hospital is seeking a dedicated Nurse Manager (Grade 2) – Transfer of Care to join the team.

In this role, you will lead and coordinate patient flow across the facility, overseeing bed management and discharge planning to ensure efficient, safe, and high-quality care. As part of the management team, you will support clinical staff in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of integrated patient care, while ensuring services are well-managed and responsive to individual patient needs. You will also play a key role in strengthening connections with external services to support seamless transitions of care.

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to a health system that values strong clinician leadership. The Local Health District is committed to fostering active clinician engagement in the planning, delivery, improvement, and evaluation of healthcare services, with a continued focus on clinical standards, safety, and quality outcomes.

About Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD)

We are a healthcare community, caring for the people of the Northern Rivers. We understand that high quality healthcare and quality of life go hand in hand. Our hospitals, and our community health and multipurpose services are a well-balanced modern network truly connecting the communities we serve across the Tweed, Richmond, and Clarence Valleys.

If you care about high quality healthcare and quality of life, we encourage you to join us.


You care. We care. Learn more about NNSWLHD here.


Relocating to the region?

The Welcome Experience in the Northern Rivers connects you and your family with local people and local resources to help you settle in and feel at home in your new community faster. 

Learn more at: www.nsw.gov.au/welcomeexperience


Join our team and you’ll enjoy:

• Salary packaging and novated leasing – increase your take-home pay

• Fitness discounts – focus on your health and wellbeing

• Growth – access to professional and personal development

• Team culture – work in a collaborative, flexible and supportive team environment

• Opportunities to start or build a career, or re-enter the workforce

Need more information? 

  1) Click here for the Position Description 
  2) Find out more about applying for this position 
For role related queries or questions contact Nicole Eather on nicole.eather@health.nsw.gov.au 

Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day.


Applications Close: 04 May 2026


NNNSWLHD embraces the diverse skills and perspectives that our people bring to the workplace. We foster inclusiveness and diversity to help us deliver quality care to our community.

NNSWLHD is committed to reconciliation and strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this position. All applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be viewed most favourably.

For help with your application to this role visit Stepping Up, our online recruitment resource for Aboriginal people.

To apply for this position, you must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident, or be able to independently, legally live and work in Australia. For more information, please see www.homeaffairs.gov.au.

 

This is a Category A position. To be employed by NSW Health you are required to provide evidence of vaccination to comply with the NSW Health Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases Policy (PD2024_015).

You may be subject to a probationary period of six months from the date of appointment to this position.

This recruitment may be used to fill future permanent, temporary and casual positions.


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