Registered Nurse - Emergency Department - Safe Staffing - Perm/Temp PT/FT or Casual
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- Registered Nurse
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- REQ607241 Requisition #
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- Sep 24, 2025 Post Date
Employment Type: Permanent or Temporary or Casual, Part Time or Full Time up to 38 hrs per week. Temporary positions available for Visa holders and contracts will be issued in line with visa conditions.
Location: Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $36.38 - $51.08 per hour
Requisition ID: REQ607241
Application Close Date: 19/10/2025
Interview Date Range: 22/10/2025 - 29/10/2025
Contact Details: Natalie Dalton (02) 9722 8120 natalie.dalton@health.nsw.gov.au
About the Opportunity
Are you a passionate Registered Nurse ready to make a real difference in emergency care? Join the dynamic team at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital Emergency Department—one of South West Sydney’s leading mixed adult and paediatric EDs.
Our modern facility manages around 58,000 presentations each year, serving a diverse and vibrant community of 200,000 people. Excitingly, a brand-new, expanded hospital is under construction in the heart of Bankstown city centre on Chapel Road (the current TAFE NSW site). This state-of-the-art facility will feature a larger emergency department, new operating theatres, intensive care units, dedicated women’s and children’s services (including maternity), mental health services, and ample parking. The location offers excellent access to bus, train, and the new Metro services.
At Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital, you’ll be supported by a dedicated senior nurse education team with a robust progression pathway and a positive, collaborative staff culture. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to grow professionally while making a meaningful impact on patient care. If you’re eager to be part of a forward-thinking team and contribute to innovative emergency care in a cutting-edge new facility, we encourage you to apply and become a valued member of our Emergency Department.
What You'll be Doing
The Registered Nurse will provide safe, compassionate, quality, person centred care and work in collaboration with patients/families/carers and a multidisciplinary team to achieve identified goals and outcomes.
Where You'll Be Working
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is located in the city of Bankstown and is in one of the most multicultural local government areas (LGA) in Australia. This hospital has tertiary affiliations with three universities and offers a range of roles and experiences to employees.
The hospital receives highly diverse presentations in ED as well as having general medical and surgical services and sub-specialty services across the hospital. Working at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is a truly rewarding experience which allows you to make a real difference to the multicultural community.
Being part of the team at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital means you will be a part of a friendly and enthusiastic group of people where you will be truly valued in your work. Being a smaller hospital, you are seen as part of the wider Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital Family where you are known to the other staff and your patients.
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is like no other in our district and offers unmatched career development and progression opportunities and the hospital focuses on regular training and upskilling. There are regular occasions for working in more senior role and you will have a great management team who dedicate themselves to providing safe, quality patient care through ensuring they have a cohesive and dynamic team.
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 Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Can you describe your experience working as a Registered Nurse, including the clinical settings you've worked in and the types of patients you've cared for?
- Highlight the main factors driving your interest in this position and express what aspects of joining the Emergency Department motivates you the most
- Emergency departments can be fast-paced and unpredictable. How do you manage competing priorities while keeping patients and their families at the centre of care?
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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.
