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Occupational Health Nurse resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what occupational health nurses actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most occupational health nurses should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Registered Nurse with experience in occupational health, workplace health surveillance and injury management. Skilled in pre-employment assessments, return-to-work coordination and health promotion across mining, construction and manufacturing settings. Committed to keeping workers safe and supporting recovery at work.
Key skills
- Clinical assessment and treatment
- Health surveillance using audiometry and spirometry equipment
- Injury case management and return-to-work coordination
- Pre-employment and periodic medical assessments
- Health education and vaccination programs
- Risk assessment and internal controls
- Regulatory compliance with WHS legislation and AHPRA standards
- Infection control and hygiene
- Cority and SAP EHS
- Microsoft Excel
- Written communication
Experience: example bullet points
- Conducted pre-employment medical assessments for up to 20 new starters per week, reducing onboarding delays by streamlining the process.
- Managed return-to-work plans for injured workers across three sites, cutting average lost-time duration from six weeks to four.
- Delivered influenza vaccination programs to a workforce of over 500, achieving high participation rates.
- Monitored workers for occupational exposures such as noise and dust, coordinating audiometry and spirometry testing and escalating abnormal results promptly.
- Developed health promotion resources on manual handling and fatigue, which reduced reported musculoskeletal incidents noticeably.
- Maintained health records in Cority and SAP EHS, ensuring compliance with privacy and WHS requirements.
Education
Bachelor of Nursing, registered with AHPRA; many occupational health nurses also complete a postgraduate qualification in occupational health nursing or occupational health and safety.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Registered Nurse
- AHPRA
- Occupational Health Nurse
- Work Health and Safety
- WHS legislation
- Return to work
- Injury management
- Health surveillance
- Audiometry
- Spirometry
- Cority
- SAP EHS
- Pre-employment medical
- ISO 45001
- Safe Work Australia
- WorkCover
- Occupational exposure
- Health promotion
- Vaccination programs
- NMBA standards
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.