St Vincent's Lismore

12/11/2025

Calling all Registered and Enrolled Nurses. We are hiring!!

AND, we’ve made it even easier for you to join our super positive nursing team at St Vincent’s Hospital Lismore.

Some of the benefits include:

- Sign on bonus of up to 10K (subject to eligibility)
- Salary packaging over 17K with zero employer withholdings (we don’t touch your salary packaging)
- Newly established Nurses Enterprise Agreement with competitive salary & improved shift allowances
- Great work culture – ask our staff & patients!
- Flexible work arrangements
- Honoured accrued long service leave (*for eligible applicants)

To find out more or to submit your application please visit our website here 👉
http://careers.svh.org.au/job-search/

12/11/2025

Our new CEO, Peter Fahey has hit the ground running here at St Vincent's. Great article from the Lismore Diocese website below.

From Nurse to CEO

St Vincent's Lismore recently welcomed Peter Fahey as their new CEO.

With decades of healthcare leadership experience across Australia and overseas, Peter's journey from nurse to CEO reflects his genuine respect for others and a belief that true leadership begins with service.

Read Peter’s vision for St Vincent’s:
🔗 lismorediocese.org/2025/11/11/peter-fahey-st-vincents-lismore-interview/

11/11/2025

A minute's silence observed today at our hospital memorial, and by delegates at the Lismore War Memorial ceremony. Remembering and honouring those that have served and sacrificed in the name of our freedom. A great turn-out, and a wonderful ceremony.

04/11/2025

A massive thanks to Our Kids for inviting us to their excellent Melbourne Cup Luncheon yesterday. It was a super fun, wonderfully hosted, and great to support a charity that's all about helping children stay local for their medical care.
Our team had a great time and are looking forward to next year already!

30/10/2025

Hot Pink! It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month and our staff came out in their best pinks to support Pink Ribbon Day today. Pink Ribbon Day is celebrated in October in Australia, to raise funds and awareness for breast and gynaecological cancers.
The St Vincent's Oncology team have been rocking hot pink scrubs all week, and were joined by staff and patients from across the campus to spread awareness about the importance of early detection and screening. We encourage everyone in the community to 'tell a friend'. Conversations about breast cancer and cancer prevention are what will lead us to better outcomes for all!

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21/10/2025

Last month we had the spectacular Robyn Lynch here at St Vincent’s recovering from a Hemiarthroplasty after fracturing her hip in a fall.

Robyn was a nurse here in the 70’s when the nuns were still in charge. She recalls taking them fishing in Ballina and laughs at what a sight it must have of been for the people driving over the Missingham Bridge to see a tinny full of nuns in full habit with hand lines in tow fishing for bream 🐟🎣🤣

Robyn spoke about how inspired she was by the nuns and in particular how compassionate they were in their treatment and care of patients. They played a huge role in Robyn completing her training and going on to become a nurse herself here at St Vincent’s and then in other hospitals.

More than anything, Robyn wanted to recognise what a great influence the nuns were on her personally and in her career.

Robyn is now happily retired in Ballina and we wish her all the best for a full recovery.

20/10/2025

Don't forget to support our Renal Dialysis team, and amazing patients as they pledge to walk 60kms to symbolise the 60 hours people on dialysis spend connected to a machine each month.
The staff will log their kms this month with nature walks and social strolls, and our patients will use the stationary pedals during their treatment- we will log their kms as well.
Please donate to support a better future for people with kidney disease. Link below. Thanks for your support!

https://fundraise.kidney.org.au/s/6356/7384

18/10/2025

Meet Reyna… a much loved patient here at St Vincent’s Lismore.

Reyna has had 4 operations with us over the years including two hip replacements, and is currently a dialysis patient of 5 years in our renal unit.

Reyna loves a good laugh, and a well made sandwich 🥪🤭... and has a lot to say about her experiences here at St Vincent’s Lismore.

"The renal unit here is very intimate. The same patients are here all the time so you get to know everyone and the nursing staff the same. It’s like a family here. We know a lot about each other. We share what’s going on in our lives together.

With dialysis you have to come three days a week so it’s a bit of a drag in that sense but the nurses make up for it, as well as the kitchen and cleaning staff. They are all so friendly and go out of their way to do anything for you.

Honestly, this hospital is the best hospital you could ever be in, and the reason I thinks it’s the best is because everyone’s so incredibly competent and also very warm and friendly. The foods better here than anywhere else. I could write an essay on the sandwich’s in about 5 different hospitals I’ve been in between here and the Gold Coast. Here they are the best.

If you’ve got to be in hospital, this is the one to be in.” ~ Reyna

Reyna would also like to share that she loves seeing the colourful Friday scrubs and the positive impact they have on morale. She says it not only makes the staff happier, it makes the patients happier too.

14/10/2025

Today is Allied Health Professionals Appreciation Day - code name for Cake Day 🤣

On this day we celebrate all our physio’s, occupational therapists, dieticians, radiologists, discharge officers and all other allied health professionals that treat our patients and support them back to independence during and after their time with us.

These guys do an incredible job to which our patients and their families will attest, and today we celebrated them with a delicious morning tea 😋

(pictured are three of our awesome Allied Health team, Jodie, Karen and Katie)

10/10/2025

Fundraiser alert!!! Great cause.
This October, we're showing up for every renal unit, every patient and moving towards a future without dialysis.

There are over 15,000 Australians on dialysis, and that number is rising. That’s why urgent action is needed now - to slow the progression and ultimately stop it.

Join our Renal team, and amazing patients as they pledge to walk 60kms to symbolise the 60 hours people on dialysis spend connected to a machine each month.

The staff will log their kms this month with nature walks and social strolls, and our patients will use the stationary pedals during their treatment- we will log their kms as well.

Please donate to support a better future for people with kidney disease. Link below or QR code in pics. Thanks for your support!

https://fundraise.kidney.org.au/s/6356/7384

07/10/2025

This week we say a final farewell to our inspirational CEO Alan Cooper, as he passes the baton on to his successor Peter Fahey.

There has been so much transformation in the last two years under Alan’s leadership. Since taking the reins in October 2023, the change in hospital culture has been phenomenal. Driven by his hands on approach, Alan has been instrumental in engaging staff on an individual level, making sure he stops to speak to everyone in all areas of our campus workforce, and to make sure everyone feels seen and heard.

On receiving staff feedback Alan has actioned without delay providing much needed new equipment and improving staff facilities, which has flowed through to the patient experience. The vibrancy of the staff has been a common theme in all our patient testimonials.

In a nutshell, the staff are happier, the hospital looks great and our community has felt the difference.

We’d like to say a huge thank you to Alan for all that he has done in the past two years for both the hospital and the community and we wish him all the best in his retirement.