Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Location: Penrith Community Health Centre
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 1
Remuneration: $130,524.69 - $133,191.01 per annum
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ632361
Applications Close: 02/02/2026

With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment
working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity
to succeed and develop in your chosen career role.

About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is an exceptional environment to advance your career while enhancing your skills and expertise. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we deliver a comprehensive range of public health services across the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Regions.

NBMLHD Community Mental Health offers a range of specialised services for children, young people, families and older people, through our community-based services and health centres. Our multidisciplinary health professionals and case managers take a collaborative approach to mental health care by linking with their patients to work together and consult within an environment appropriate to the person's needs.

Step into a role where your expertise can make an immediate and lasting difference. The Safeguards Team is an innovative new Child, Youth & Family Mental Health (CYF‑MH) service dedicated to delivering best‑practice care to children and adolescents aged 0–17 who are experiencing acute mental health distress. As a community‑based service, the team provides rapid, mobile and flexible responses to mental health crises, offering assertive outreach, coordinated care, and time‑limited therapeutic interventions that meet young people where they are in their homes, schools, communities, and hospital settings. Operating seven days a week with extended weekday hours, the Safeguards Team ensures timely, accessible and compassionate support through face‑to‑face, phone and telehealth appointments.

If you are passionate about shaping the future of child and youth mental health and ready to bring your skills to a dynamic, responsive and purpose‑driven team, we would love to hear from you. Apply Now!

Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees

• Accrued Day Off (ADO)
• Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
• Novated Leasing
• Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
• Fitness Passport
   

NBMLHD is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects the community we serve. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+, Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people, neurodiverse individuals, and people with disabilities to apply.

NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.

For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.
 

What you will bring to the role

1. Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse/Midwife with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APHRA) and current NSW Driver’s License and willingness to use same as required for the position.
2. Minimum five years full time equivalent post registration experience and post graduate qualifications in field of practice, or such other qualifications or experience deemed appropriate by the Local Health District.
3. Evidence of consistent demonstration of behaviours that reinforce the CORE Values of our organisation with all stakeholders including colleagues, direct reports, patients and consumers.
4. Demonstrated effective communication and interpersonal skills across a variety of mediums and knowledge of the practice development framework to clinical practice.
5. Ability to apply clinical expertise in patient-centred consultancy and both the ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework and the capacity to work independently.
6. Demonstrated involvement in the development/change of clinical practice underpinned by evidence-based research.
7. Demonstrated ability to contribute to strategic and clinical service planning.
8. Proven skills in clinical teaching, the identification of education needs in the clinical area, and competency in the use of contemporary information systems.

Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.

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For role related queries or questions contact Natalie Shaw on ************@health.nsw.gov.au