Clinical Nurse Specialist - Grade 2 - Home Haemodialysis Trainer

Requisition ID: REQ649478
Employment Type: Permanent – Part time
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Consultant - Grade 2
Remuneration: $116,639.98 - $120,469.88 per annum (+ super + 17.5% leave loading)
Hours Per Week: 8
Applications Close: 16 April 2026
Vaccination Category: A
Location:  Wagga Wagga

About the Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2 – Home haemodialysis trainer, to join the Murrumbidgee Local Health District nursing workforce at Wagga Wagga. In this role, you will deliver advanced, patient-centred care, focusing on teaching patients and their carers to perform haemodialysis at home, for people living with end stage renal disease.

In this role, you will:

• Education and Training: Training patients and carers on home haemodialysis (HHD) Fresenius 4008 machines, techniques, and troubleshooting.
• Support and Monitoring: Providing ongoing clinical support, often including telehealth or home visits, to manage vascular access (AVF/AVG/CVC) and assess treatment effectiveness. Advocating for patients, while supporting innovative models of care, to reduce avoidable hospital presentations.
• Patient Autonomy: Empowering patients to manage their own care, improving quality of life, and offering flexibility.
• Clinical Environment: This role is based in the hospital outpatient settings, with some travel to patient homes and other sites.
• Multi-disciplinary: Working and collaborating care for the patient and carers, alongside multi-disciplinary team members, for patient centred care outcomes.

For a full list of role responsibilities, please review the Position Description

About You
Our ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse
• Post graduate qualifications relevant to renal nursing, and at least 3 years fulltime equivalent clinical experience. Including proficiency in vascular access cannulation
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex care and support patients managing chronic conditions across hospital and community settings
• Strong clinical leadership skills and ability to mentor and support staff
• Excellent communication, collaboration and care coordination skills within multidisciplinary teams
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, quality improvement and ongoing professional development
• Current Class C driver’s licence and willingness to travel across the district if required

Why join MLHD?

• At Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD), we offer more than a job — we offer the chance to make a real difference.
• Make a meaningful impact delivering essential care to regional communities.
• Competitive remuneration with generous salary packaging up to $20,600 and novated leasing options
• Ongoing professional development and career progression opportunities.

• Health and wellbeing support including EAP, Fitness Passport and family wellbeing programs.

  
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How to Apply 
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, Apply Now. Please contact, Kelly Marchioni, via KellyAnne.Marchioni@health.nsw.gov.au if you have any questions about this role.
Your application will need to include:

• A current CV
• A cover letter
• Responses to the application questions

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.

If you identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander,  you can access recruitment application support through the Stepping Up initiative.

This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.