Australia has one of the best healthcare systems in the world. With the ideal balance of public healthcare (Medicare) and a thriving private health sector, employment opportunities for medical practitioners, dental and allied health professionals are varied and wide-ranging.
A world-class health system
The goal of NSW Health is to provide the best possible health care to the New South Wales population.
We provide a comprehensive range of health and health-related services in a wide range of settings, including primary care outposts in the remote outback, larger teaching hospitals in regional centres and busy metropolitan based health centres.
More than 100,000 people work in or directly with NSW Health:
- Across fifteen Local Health Districts
- The Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW) – CHW is the largest paediatric centre in New South Wales, providing excellent care for children from New South Wales, Australia and across the Pacific Rim. Established in 1880, this stand-alone public hospital and registered charity has 3,000 staff in 150 departments. The hospital cares for more than 50,000 admitted sick children and their families each year in a family-focused healing environment. It is a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney and the University of Western Sydney
- The Ambulance Service of New South Wales, and
- Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network – The Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network Justice Health is a statewide service providing healthcare to people in the adult correctional system, to juvenile detainees and to those within the forensic mental health system. It also provides services in police cells and to courts complexes and has an expanding role in the community, particularly in the area of community based forensic mental health services. Justice Health cares for more than 21,500 inmates and detainees annually. It employs more than 800 staff, mainly highly trained specialist nursing professionals.
Our services are boosted every day with modernised health facilities and new technologies. Our staff can claim to lead the world with many initiatives, such as the first triple-transplant surgery of its type, the most comprehensive infant hearing screening program and cutting edge research and clinical trials such as those for melanoma treatments.
A career that offers you more
There are many advantages for health professionals working with NSW Health. Benefits may include:
- Financial benefits such as generous pay rates, penalty rates, a minimum of four weeks annual leave, other leave entitlements, employment protection provisions and allowances
- Flexible work practices
- Temporary and permanent sponsorship for overseas applicants
- Incentives to take up rural positions
- Career progression and career pathways
- Professional support and development
- A range of scholarships
- Employer sponsored child care
- Compulsory 9% employer superannuation contribution
- Salary sacrifice for voluntary superannuation contribution
- Relocation and living away from home expenses
- Clinical, education & management roles exist in rural areas
- Living and working in New South Wales also offers plenty of opportunities for partners, spouses and dependents.
To search current vacancies within NSW Health, please visit the Health Jobs site.