Our Kids Paediatric Healthcare Scholarship

Our Kids
Our Kids raises money and awareness for Lismore Base Hospital, Tweed Hospital and Grafton Base Hospital Children’s Ward, Special Care Nursery, Women’s Care Unit, Mental Health Unit, and the Accident and Emergency Department and the surrounding satellite hospitals in the Northern Rivers. Our Kids is a self-funded Trust that operates under the Northern NSW Local Health District.

The scholarship celebrates a student who is working as a paediatric nurse, midwife, or allied health professional specialising in paediatric care and shows a strong commitment to improving paediatric healthcare outcomes in the Northern Rivers. Their emerging leadership capability within a healthcare setting is evident in examples of initiative, collaboration, advocacy, or service improvement for paediatric patients.

Quick facts

Value

$4,000

See Information for recipients for details about general conditions and payments.

Number available

One

Course of study

Master of Healthcare Leadership

Student Pearl Andrews is in her second year studying a Bachelor of Indigenous Knowledge majoring in Law and Justice at the Lismore campus.

Scholarship details

See applying for a scholarship for more information. Applications close 30 May 2026.

How to apply

  1. Be currently enrolled in, or be commencing/applied for, the Master of Healthcare Leadership at Southern Cross University.
  2. Be employed by Northern New South Wales Local Health District (NNSWLHD) and be currently working as a paediatric nurse, midwife, or allied health professional specialising in paediatric care.

Selection will be based on an evaluation of:

  1. Merit and Academic Capability
    • Demonstrated academic ability and commitment to successfully completing postgraduate study, supported by relevant academic qualifications and/or professional experience.
  2. Commitment to Paediatric Healthcare and Regional Impact
    • Demonstrated strong commitment to improving paediatric healthcare outcomes in the Northern Rivers.
  3. Professional Leadership Potential
    • Demonstrated current or emerging leadership capability within a healthcare setting, including examples of initiative, collaboration, advocacy, or service improvement for paediatric patients.

Let your studies in law fuel a new generation of social justice and equity.

Stand up for what’s important to you and personalise your degree with elective units in areas such as human rights, race and the law, animal law, climate law and policy, psychology and the law, and ecological jurisprudence.

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Need more information? Please contact the Scholarship Office

Phone and email In person
Scholarships Campus locations
T: 1800 SC HELP (1800 72 4357)
E: scholarships@scu.edu.au		 Lismore
Gold Coast
Coffs Harbour