Clinical Nurse Consultant

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, 38 hours per week

Location: Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital

Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant (Grade 1)

Remuneration: $130, $133,191.02 per annum

Requisition ID: REQ620135

Application Close Date: 23/11/2025

Interview Date Range: 26/11/2025 – 03/12/2025

Contact Details: Hye Jin Choi | |

About the Opportunity

Are you a nursing leader committed to advancing diabetes care through expert clinical practice and team leadership? We are seeking a dedicated Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) Grade 1 - Diabetes to provide clinical leadership, drive evidence-based practice, and support continuous improvement across our diabetes services.

In this key role, you will serve as the clinical lead, working closely with multidisciplinary teams and leading nurses across the service to deliver coordinated, high-quality, and person-centred diabetes care. You will provide expert guidance, mentor staff, and contribute to building clinical capability within the team, ensuring consistent and best-practice standards are maintained.

As a senior nursing role, the CNC is responsible for fostering a culture of clinical excellence, collaboration, and innovation. You will lead service development initiatives, contribute to quality improvement and research, and ensure care strategies reflect the latest evidence and support optimal health outcomes for patients and their families.

The position upholds and promotes the NSW Health CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment, and plays a vital role in advancing SWSLHD's vision of "Leading Care, Healthier Communities." Your leadership will be central to delivering the Transforming Your Experience strategy, ensuring care is always safe, high-quality and personalised.

If you are a proactive, values-driven leader with a passion for diabetes care and team development, we welcome your application.

What You'll be Doing

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.

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 the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), with a minimum of 5 years full-time equivalent post-registration experience, including at least 2 years as a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Grade 1 or above. Holds approved postgraduate nursing qualifications in diabetes education, and is a Credentialed Diabetes Educator (CDE)
• Demonstrated expert clinical knowledge and experience in diabetes care, including the ability to develop, implement and evaluate evidence-based care plans for people living with diabetes and complex health needs.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and effectively communicate with patients, carers, and service partners to deliver culturally responsive, person-centred diabetes care.
• Demonstrated involvement in clinical leadership, quality improvement and diabetes-specific service development initiatives, including contribution to staff education, professional development, or specialty-focused research.

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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.

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