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Pathway Incentives

Northern Territory

Discover the remote nursing and midwifery career pathways and incentives available in the Northern Territory to support your work in remote health.

School Age

High School to Health Careers Program

Read more about this NTPHN program.

Under­grad­u­ate (RN/MID-EN)

Place­ment Sup­port (Flinders University)

Flinders Uni­ver­si­ty pro­vides sup­port and assis­tance to stu­dents under­go­ing Nurs­ing and Allied Health Pro­fes­sion­al Expe­ri­ence Place­ments and Remote Health Prac­tice Place­ments in Cen­tral Aus­tralia. Sup­port is also pro­vid­ed for uni­ver­si­ties and clin­i­cal supervisors.

Stu­dents from any uni­ver­si­ty and any health-relat­ed course are wel­come to access their ser­vices. Stu­dent place­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties exist in hos­pi­tals, health clin­ics in remote com­mu­ni­ties and pri­vate and pub­lic health depart­ments. Read about how they can help.

Stu­dent Remote Trav­el and Accom­mo­da­tion Assis­tance (Flinders University)

Flinders Uni­ver­si­ty also offers assis­tance and sup­port for stu­dent place­ments through accom­mo­da­tion and trans­port. Find out more.

The Carmel Baul­der­stone Memo­r­i­al Schol­ar­ship (Flinders University)

This schol­ar­ship pro­vides assis­tance to under­grad­u­ate nurs­ing stu­dents under­tak­ing their Bach­e­lor of Nurs­ing course at Flinders Uni, who are enrolled in the sec­ond or third year of the course to under­take a Pro­fes­sion­al Expe­ri­ence Place­ment at a Col­lege of Nurs­ing and Health Sci­ences-approved clin­i­cal edu­ca­tion facil­i­ty in a rur­al or remote set­ting. Find out more here.

Grad­u­ate Programs

NT Health Grad­u­ate Nurse and Mid­wife Programs

Hos­pi­tal-based with pos­si­ble rota­tions to aged and com­mu­ni­ty. Includes MMM 6/7. Find out more here.

Con­tin­u­ing
Pro­fes­sion­al Development

The Health Work­force Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram (HWSP) by NTPHN

The Health Work­force Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram (HWSP) pro­vides schol­ar­ships and bur­saries to help health pro­fes­sion­als in rur­al and remote Aus­tralia enhance and retain their skills, capac­i­ty and scope of prac­tice. The HWSP is avail­able to health pro­fes­sion­als work­ing in med­ical, nursing/​midwifery, den­tal, allied health and Abo­rig­i­nal and Tor­res Strait Islander health. Work­ers pro­vid­ing pri­ma­ry health care ser­vices to loca­tions in MM 3 – 7 with­in pri­vate prac­tice, non-gov­ern­ment and not-for-prof­it sec­tor are eli­gi­ble to apply. Health pro­fes­sion­als pro­vid­ing pri­ma­ry health care ser­vices in an Abo­rig­i­nal Med­ical Ser­vice (AMS) or Abo­rig­i­nal Com­mu­ni­ty Con­trolled Health Organ­i­sa­tion (ACCHO) can be locat­ed with­in a MM 1 — 7 loca­tion. Find out more.

Flinders Uni­ver­si­ty Stu­dent Place­ment Sup­port (Across Disciplines)

Stu­dents under­tak­ing the Remote Health Prac­tice Post­grad­u­ate Award Cours­es offered through Flinders’ Alice Springs Cam­pus are required to under­take remote place­ments as well as face-to-face inten­sives in Alice Springs. Flinders offers assis­tance and sup­port for stu­dent place­ments through accom­mo­da­tion and trans­port. Read more.

Early Career/Career Redirect (RN/MID-EN)

Tran­si­tion to Remote Area Nurs­ing Course

This Cen­tre for Remote Health course is for reg­is­tered nurs­es new to remote health, con­sid­er­ing a career move to remote area nurs­ing or inter­est­ed in remote/​rural con­tracts. The 10-day face-to-face short course pre­pares reg­is­tered nurs­es with the skills and knowl­edge required to become effec­tive mem­bers of remote pri­ma­ry health care teams. Dis­cov­er this oppor­tu­ni­ty.

NT Employed Mod­el Pro­gram – Nurse or Nurse/ Midwife

The employed mod­el pro­gram pro­vides paid employ­ment in the Ter­ri­to­ry, while you under­take 1 or 2 year, part-time study through a university.

This NT Health ini­tia­tive aims to sup­port nurs­es with, gain rel­e­vant skills, expe­ri­ence and knowl­edge in Pop­u­la­tion and Pri­ma­ry Health Care (PPHC) with a spe­cif­ic focus on remote area nurs­ing. Con­di­tions apply.

Can­di­dates are required to suc­cess­ful­ly com­plete a Grad­u­ate Cer­tifi­cate in Remote Health or Pri­ma­ry Health Care from an approved uni­ver­si­ty as part of the program.

Pro­gram appli­ca­tion open­ing and clos­ing dates vary. Click here for more infor­ma­tion. To reg­is­ter your inter­est email the Remote Pri­ma­ry Health Care Edu­ca­tion team

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Other opportunities

CRANAplus has not been informed of any oth­er path­way incen­tives or pro­grams that exist in Vic­to­ria. You may wish to browse path­way incen­tives in oth­er states or those on a nation­al lev­el as well.

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Let us know about your initiative

If you are an organ­i­sa­tion run­ning a pro­gram or ini­tia­tive to sup­port those prac­tis­ing or study­ing remote nurs­ing and/​or mid­wifery, let us know by email­ing workforcesupport@​crana.​org.​au.