Employment Type: Permanent Part Time, 16 hrs per week
Location: Bankstown Community Health Centre, SWSLHD Mental Health Services
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 2
Remuneration: $66.50 - $67.83 per hour
Requisition ID: REQ600740
Application Close Date: 07/09/2025
Interview Date Range: 10/09/2025 – 17/09/2025
Contact Details: Natalie Vella – (02) 9616 4276 | natalie.vella@health.nsw.gov.au

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Are you a passionate and experienced Mental Health Nurse ready to lead, inspire, and drive change? Mental Health South Western Sydney Local Health District is seeking a Clinical Nurse Consultant (Grade 2) –Consultation Liaison, based at Bankstown hospital. In this key leadership role, you will provide advanced clinical expertise and consultation across inpatient and general hospital settings, enhancing the capacity of medical, nursing, and allied health teams to deliver safe, compassionate care for patients with complex mental health needs.
You will play a pivotal role in supporting holistic and integrated care through direct patient engagement, evidence-based assessment, intervention, care planning, and staff education. This role also provides the opportunity to lead clinical practice development, deliver specialised education, and drive service innovation to promote equity of access and mental health awareness.
You will contribute to strategic planning, research, and quality improvement initiatives while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to advocate for consumers and deliver truly person-centred care.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, forward-thinking team and make a lasting impact in the future of mental health services

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.
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The Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) is an expert practitioner who, through leadership facilitates evidence based practice. The CNC will promote a service which fosters clinical excellence, research and professional leadership. The CNC contributes to quality health care by collaborating with the health care providers and consumer groups, developing clinical practice standards and evaluating their outcomes. The CNC is responsible for providing services which facilitate effective management of the care in the given specialty.
The Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) is an expert practitioner who, through leadership facilitates evidence based practice. The CNC will promote a service which fosters clinical excellence, research and professional leadership. The CNC contributes to quality health care by collaborating with the health care providers and consumer groups, developing clinical practice standards and evaluating their outcomes. The CNC is responsible for providing services which facilitate effective management of the care in the given specialty.