Nurse Practitioner Palliative Care

Employment Type:PermanentFull Time
Position Classification:Nurse Practitioner
Remuneration:$143851.1 - $154025.92 Super Salary Packaging
Hours Per Week:38
Requisition ID:REQ659507
Closing Date: Sunday 10th May 2026

Location Belmont Hospital

Belmont Hospital is a facility within Hunter New England Local Health District providing highquality patientcentred care to the Lake Macquarie community. The Palliative Care Service delivers specialist care to patients with lifelimiting illness across the inpatient setting and liaises closely with community services.

The multidisciplinary team works closely with patients families and carers to promote comfort dignity and quality of life and collaborates with acute services general practitioners and community providers across the district. Belmont Hospital offers a supportive collaborative work environment in a peaceful location close to Lake Macquarie and Newcastle.

About Our Role

The Nurse Practitioner Palliative Care provides advanced autonomous clinical care to patients with lifelimiting illness across inpatient and community settings. The role focuses on comprehensive assessment clinical management symptom control care coordination and advance care planning in partnership with patients families and the multidisciplinary team.

Key responsibilities include conducting advanced clinical assessments prescribing and managing medications ordering and interpreting diagnostics and developing and evaluating palliative care plans. The Nurse Practitioner provides expert clinical advice leads case conferences supports complex decisionmaking and contributes to quality improvement service development and evidencebased practice.

The role provides clinical leadership education and support to nursing and multidisciplinary staff but does not usually have direct line management responsibilities. The position works collaboratively with medical officers allied health general practitioners and community services to ensure seamless patientcentred care. The Nurse Practitioner reports operationally to the to the Director of Nursing.

The Nurse Practitioner Palliative Care will be supported by a collaborative multidisciplinary team senior clinicians and nursing leadership within Hunter New England Local Health District. A structured orientation and onboarding plan is provided on commencement tailored to the role and local service model.

Ongoing support includes access to clinical supervision peer Nurse Practitioner networks mentoring and professional development opportunities. The service supports continuing education reflective practice and involvement in quality improvement and service development activities.

Essential:

• Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse
• Endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner
• Relevant Masterslevel qualification enabling NP endorsement
• Advanced clinical experience in palliative or related specialty
• Prescribing authority with MBS/PBS eligibility
• Current Class C NSW Driver Licence

Able to be Developed:

• Further scope expansion and credentialing
• Leadership education quality improvement or research skills
  

About Our Candidate

The ideal candidate is an experienced and compassionate Nurse Practitioner with strong clinical expertise in palliative care and a commitment to personcentred valuesbased practice. They demonstrate confidence working autonomously with patients who have complex lifelimiting illness while contributing effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

Most crucial attributes and capabilities:

• Endorsed Nurse Practitioner with advanced clinical assessment diagnostic and prescribing skills
• Demonstrated experience in palliative and endoflife care including symptom management and advance care planning
• Highlevel communication skills particularly in complex sensitive and emotionally challenging situations
• Strong clinical judgement accountability and ability to make independent decisions
• Commitment to compassionate culturally safe and familycentred care
• Ability to collaborate effectively across inpatient community and primary care settings

Attributes and capabilities that can be developed in the role:

• Service development quality improvement and innovation initiatives
• Education mentoring and clinical leadership of nursing and multidisciplinary staff
• Research involvement and translation of evidence into practice
• Advanced leadership within networked palliative care services

The successful candidate will be adaptable resilient and motivated to contribute to a supportive collaborative team while advancing palliative care practice within Belmont Hospital and the broader Hunter New England health system.

Benefits
AtHunter New England Healthenjoy a career where youre challenged by interesting work and surrounded by spectacular locations. Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day:

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Monthly Allocated Days Off (for full-time employees)

4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part time employees)

Paid parental leave (for eligible employees) - giving you the opportunity for true Worklife balance

Salary packaging options - up to $11600 plus novated leasing

Fitness Passport for health and well-being - discounted gym options for you and your family

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members

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Information for Applicants:

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Hunter New EnglandHealthis dedicated to fostering a child-safe environment that respects and upholds the rights of children and young people aligned with NSW Healths commitment to implementingthe Child Safe Standards.We aim to ensure that children and young people feel safe supported and included in their care. All current and prospective staff are expected to prioritise the safety welfare and well-being of children and young people actively working to protect them from harm and abuse.

At Hunter New England Local Health District we are an inclusive employer dedicated to fostering a diverse inclusive and welcoming workplace. Our commitment to a workforce that reflects the community we care for is essential for delivering the highest quality healthcare to our community. We encourage people with diverse lived experiences to apply. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to the recruitment process please let us know when you apply or at any stage of the process. We will work with you to meet your needs and create the best possible experience. Please contact for confidential support to ensure an equitable barrier-free application process.

An eligibility list will be created for future permanent full or part time and temporary full or part time vacancies.

This position is full time;however part time/job share arrangements may also be considered.

Hunter New England Health employees may be eligible for a range of benefitssuch as allocated days off (ADO) for full time employees long service leave paid maternity leave and salary packaging options including meal expenses.

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