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Education

Graduate Nurse Program

Title

Graduate Nurse Program

Empowering early-career nurses to develop their skills, achieve their goals, and build long-lasting careers at Austin Health while delivering safe, patient-centered care.

About our program

The Graduate Nurse Program (GNP) at Austin Health is well established and takes around 180 graduate nurses each year across all our streams.

Our graduate nurses participate in a well-structured and highly supportive program that offers many learning and development opportunities across our four sites.

We believe that graduate support and education is everyone’s business, and this is the culture that we foster at Austin Health.

The nursing education and ward teams strive to achieve best practice clinical learning environments for our graduate nurses, ensuring we deliver the best patient experiences and develop our early career nurses for a robust career in nursing.

Program streams

What we offer

Dedicated Early Career Coordinators
Dedicated Early Career Educator
Two rotations (6 months each)
Large variety of acute and specialty rotations
Opportunities to work in high dependency units
Comprehensive orientation program
Supernumerary time each rotation
Dedicated study days for each stream
Online learning
Structured reflective practice

Benefits of working at Austin Health

We offer a range of benefits, including salary packaging, wellbeing programs and staff discounts.

A safe and inclusive workplace

We are committed to supporting our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce, by providing an inclusive environment where all cultures are valued and respected. We have a number of initiatives in place to support this commitment.

As a member of the Victorian Aboriginal Graduate and Cadetship Network there is a dedicated support and guidance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates.

For more information please contact: graduatenurseprogram@austin.org.au

Key information for applicants

Applications for the 2026 Graduate Nurse Program at Austin Health close on Wednesday 2 July 2025.

Applications open now

Links and downloads

Information sessions

Our information sessions for the 2026 intake have now concluded.

If you have any questions about our programs, working for Austin Health, or the application process, please contact us directly on graduatenurseprogram@austin.org.au.

Stay up to date

Here's how you can stay up to date with everything that's happening:

Follow the Instagram handle @austinhealthgnp
Email graduatenurseprogram@austin.org.au

Beyond the graduate year

Austin Health provides a wide range of opportunities beyond the Graduate Nurse Program, with more than 92 per cent of graduates staying on with Austin Health after completion.

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