Position status: Permanent
Position type: Flexible full-time
Occupational group: Health – Nursing
Classification: Nurse Grade 6 (1)
Workplace Location: North West Qld
Job ad reference: QLD/MI686827
Closing date: 22-Jul-2026

Contact person: Georgia Steele
Contact details: (07) 4764 0200 / 0484 933 594

About the role

In this role you will provide advanced clinical care and leadership across a broad range of specialist sexual and reproductive health services. Working both within Mount Isa and across rural and remote communities, you’ll support patients with complex care needs while promoting culturally safe, person-centred healthcare.

• Deliver expert sexual, reproductive and women’s health nursing care, including assessment, care planning, education and clinical management.
• Provide clinical leadership, mentoring and support to nursing staff while contributing to education, quality improvement and evidence-based practice.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

Requirements

• Mandatory requirements are a relevant tertiary degree qualification and appropriate registration/licences.
• Experience working in sexual health desirable but not necessary.
• Authorisation to practice under the Queensland Sexual and Reproductive Health Drug Therapy Protocol or willingness to undertake this training.
• Whilst not mandatory, authorisation as a Cervical Screening Test (CST) (Pap Smear) Provider in Queensland will be highly regarded.
• The position will involve travel to various remote facilities or units within the catchment by air or road and may be a day trip or extended over several days.
• C Class Motor Vehicle Licence.
• Pre-employment screening will be conducted for the successful applicant, including Criminal History checks.
• This is a VPD risk role and may require evidence of vaccination or immunity to: Hepatitis A/B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, and Tuberculosis.
• A period of probation may apply.

Working with Queensland Health

• For 1 year will get you an isolation bonus of AUD$3,695. If you stay for 2 years you will get AUD$11,085; and for your 3rd year (and every year after that) you will get AUD$7,390 (pro rata for part time employees).

In your downtime, we will provide 2 return airfares p.a. (full-time employees) (inc. spouse/dependents) or 1 return airfare p.a. (part-time employees) to the nearest east coast provincial city in conjunction with your recreation leave; of which we offer 5 weeks p.a. with a leave loading/bonus.

• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution.
• Long Service Leave and Sick Leave accrual.
• Tax savings through salary sacrificing options are also available.

Plus 2 weeks p.a., travel as required and enrolment and conference costs for approved courses and conferences.

Queensland Health also offers staff accommodation (if eligible) or a private rental subsidy of AUD$82.50 per week for up to 17 months.

Professionally, Queensland Health HHS values professionalism, leadership capability, excellence and resilience in our staff. We are committed to providing extraordinary opportunities for career development including in-house training, development and mentoring programs.

About North West Hospital and Health Service

The North West Hospital and Health Service (NWHHS) delivers public health services across approximately 300,000 square kilometres, supporting remote communities throughout North Western Queensland and the Gulf of Carpentaria. We are committed to promoting community wellbeing and providing high-quality, accessible and effective healthcare for all.

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