Cornerstone Medical Recruitment (cmr) has officially launched its Agency Nursing division, providing nurses and midwives with new opportunities to work flexible shifts across metro South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales hospitals.
The service gives healthcare professionals the ability to choose when and where they work, without the commitment of a long-term contract. Agency nursing through cmr offers:
• Above-award pay rates
• Shifts across leading metro hospitals
• Personal consultant support
• A seamless onboarding process to get nurses started quickly
“Agency nursing shifts is about flexibility and choice. We know many nurses are looking for variety, extra income, or a better balance between work and life. This launch allows us to support those needs while helping hospitals fill critical shifts.”
Libby Warner, National General Manager of Nursing
Initially focused on hospital-based nurses and midwives across metro South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, cmr plans to expand into aged care and additional locations in the near future.
For hospitals and healthcare services, cmr’s Agency Nursing division offers access to a reliable pool of experienced nurses and midwives, supported by a local team who understand workforce pressures and the importance of continuity of care. If you’re looking for support to fill short-term gaps or manage fluctuating demand, our team is here to help.
Nurses and midwives interested in joining, can register today to start picking up flexible shifts that fit their lifestyle.
Cornerstone Medical Recruitment (cmr) is proud to announce that Your Doctor Jobs (YDJ), an award-winning boutique doctor recruitment agency, has officially joined the cmr family.
This marks cmr’s first acquisition and a major milestone in its mission to create a happier, stronger healthcare workforce. Both cmr and YDJ share a commitment to personalised service, trusted relationships, and genuine care for Australia’s healthcare community.
“We couldn’t be more excited about this acquisition. This isn’t about one brand absorbing another – it’s about amplifying what makes each of us great. Together, we’re building a happier healthcare workforce with heart, expanding our capacity, reach, and impact in the doctors division, and unlocking new ways to serve our communities even better.”
— Samantha Miklos, CEO, cmr
Stronger Together
For Samantha Miklos and Justin Smith, this partnership represents Stronger Together moment, one built on shared values, mutual respect, and incredible synergy between both teams.
cmr has been selective by design, choosing YDJ as a partner whose relationship-driven approach perfectly mirrors its own. With deep respect for the YDJ legacy and the momentum already building, both leaders are excited for what’s ahead.
Expanding Reach, Deepening Impact
With strong foundations already in place – from enhanced tech and systems to a people-first culture – cmr is ready to take its growth to the next level. This partnership strengthens cmr’s doctor recruitment division, expanding support for more clients, more candidates, and more communities across Australia.
The future’s looking bright and for cmr and YDJ, this is only the beginning.
Rural Generalist Medicine has officially been recognised as a medical specialty in Australia, marking a major milestone for rural and remote healthcare.
The Medical Board of Australia confirmed the creation of a new field of specialty practice within General Practice, making it only the second addition to specialty practice in 15 years. Doctors can now be formally registered under the title Specialist Rural Generalist, recognising the broad scope and advanced skills Rural Generalists bring to communities, from emergency medicine to obstetrics, anaesthetics and beyond.
Training programs will now be accredited by the Australian Medical Council, with pathways being developed for doctors already practising as Rural Generalists to transition into the new framework.
“We have always contended that Rural Generalist Medicine recognition is a key step toward improving rural healthcare, and this has now been affirmed by an exhaustive six-year expert analysis.“
ACRRM President Dr Rod Martin
Healthcare leaders, including the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), have hailed the decision as a long-awaited acknowledgment of the vital role Rural Generalists play in ensuring high-quality care for rural, remote and First Nations communities.
At cmr, we know firsthand how crucial Rural Generalists are to Australia’s healthcare system. We’re proud to support this workforce every day and welcome this recognition as a positive step forward for our doctors, clients, and the communities they serve.
Our team will be at the RMA Conference this October (Booth 44), making this milestone an especially exciting time to connect with our Rural Generalist community.
At Cornerstone Medical Recruitment (cmr), we’re always listening to what our clients need. And over the past year, what we’ve heard has been clear: the healthcare landscape is shifting fast. Budgets are tightening, great candidates are harder to find, and the pressure to deliver exceptional care keeps growing. That’s why we’re evolving our approach and strengthening our nursing workforce strategy with the right people leading the way.
We’re delighted to welcome Libby Warner as our new General Manager of Nursing & Midwifery. Libby joins us while our much-loved General Manager Janine Johnson takes some well-deserved parental leave. When Janine returns, the two will lead the division together, combining deep recruitment expertise with rich, lived clinical experience to strengthen our nursing workforce strategy.
“I’ve worked my way from EEN to RN to Nurse Unit Manager, and then into national recruitment leadership. I know what it’s like on the floor and how hospitals really function. That knowledge is critical to finding the right workforce solutions.”
Libby Warner
Libby brings more than 20 years of nursing experience and six years in senior recruitment leadership to the role. She’s joined cmr at a time when many services are moving beyond “we just need staff” to “we need the right people, placed with purpose.” It’s a mindset shift and it’s exactly where our nursing workforce strategy comes in.
“We’re having deeper conversations with clients, about what’s really missing, what’s possible, and how we can get creative. Value isn’t just about price; it’s about fit, retention, and impact. That’s what we’re focused on.”
Libby Warner
Libby’s clinical insight perfectly complements Janine’s recruitment leadership. Together with the wider cmr team, they’ll support services across Australia to move from reactive hiring to confident, proactive nursing workforce strategy planning.
“We want our clients to walk away saying, ‘I know what I’m paying for and it’s worth it.’ Because the result is a long-term solution, not just a fill.”
– Janine Johnson
With Libby now on board and Janine returning soon, our Nursing & Midwifery division is more equipped than ever to support our clients. Together, they bring a powerful combination of clinical insight and strategic know-how, offering thoughtful, tailored guidance to shape your nursing workforce strategy.
With a deep understanding of regional challenges and on-the-ground realities, they’re focused on delivering quality placements that feel like the right fit, not just on paper, but in practice. Whether it’s navigating housing and funding hurdles or mentoring our internal team to keep lifting the bar, their goal is to create lasting, practical solutions that help you build a stronger, more sustainable workforce.
Whether you’ve partnered with cmr for years or you’re just getting to know us, now’s a great time to reach out. We’re here to talk strategy, share insights, and work with you to build a nursing workforce strategy that’s not just fit for today but strong for the future.
We are excited to launch our specialist Social Care & Psychology Division. The demand from our clients within this sector has significantly grown, and we are thrilled to be able to meet their needs.
Previously forming part of our Allied Health Division, we have recruited Psychologists and Social Workers for many years, but have now set up a dedicated division led by Ami Flowers.
We are pleased to offer a recruitment service for locum, contract or permanent Psychologists, Social Workers, Case Workers, Counsellors, Child Protection Officers, Program Managers and Support Workers across Australia.
If you’re looking for locum, temporary or permanent staff across Social Care and Psychology, please get in touch with our team today. Or if you are a practitioner looking for work, give us a call for the most up to the minute jobs.
We jumped at the opportunity recently to help the Australian Medical Association (AMA), the Australian Dental Association (ADA) and the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) with their online conferences, webinars and exhibitions for clinicians and students.
While restrictions around events are in place across the country, we are determined to still give medical professionals and students the opportunity to further their career with digital learning opportunities.
In July we offered an “Insight Into Locuming” for Junior Doctors as part of the AMA Junior Doctor Conference On-Demand. We are proud to be the exclusive recruitment partner of the AMA.
The Australian Dental Association invited us to present a live one hour webinar in August to final year university students to how to “Get the edge: how to stand out from the crowd”. Here we helped students navigate how to write a great CV, told them interview techniques to win the job and showed them different career paths and how a recruiter can help them achieve this.
We have also been lucky enough to support Southern Cross University on a number of career masterclasses for their Allied Health students over the last couple of months.
In September we look forward to getting behind the Australian Physiotherapy Association as a Platinum Sponsor of their Virtual Exhibitor Showcase. We will also support their student job shows throughout the individual states.
We will continue to support clinicians and their professional industry associations in whatever capacity they need us.
In the current climate of COVID-19, it’s more important than ever that we deliver medical recruitment.
With the restrictions put in place regarding COVID-19, our staff are fully equipped to work around the clock in any location.
If you’ve never used us before, or you’re a long-term client of Cornerstone, you can rest assured that we will find you the help you need, when you need it.
If you’re looking for locum, temporary or permanent staff across Nursing & Midwifery, Doctors, Allied Health, Medical Imaging or Dental, we are here to help you.
BBC One recently visited Cornerstone to film their popular series “Wanted Down Under”, which is due to air on 7 February in the UK and online in Australia.
“Wanted Down Under” is a long-running factual TV series in the UK which gives British families a look at life in Australia ahead of possible migration. Each episode gives a British family the opportunity to experience a trial week “down under”.
In this series, Nicola, a Dual Registered Nurse and Midwife from Lancashire in England, wants to move to Brisbane with her family for a better life. She is looking to work as a Midwife and is delighted with the salary she can receive in Australia.
Agency Nurses and Midwives working for Cornerstone are amongst the highest paid in the industry.
Aside from looking at real estate and lifestyle opportunities, one of the main opportunities they wish to investigate is the career opportunities they love which are open to them along with the financial implications of the move.
As part of the episode, Division Manager Janine Johnson helps Nicola navigate what she needs to do to work as a Midwife in Australia and inspires her with the “Aussie lifestyle” and what it could mean for her family.
But what does Nicole decide to do in the end – stay in the UK or migrate out to Australia as a Registered Nurse? Watch here (please note there are restrictions to watching this series outside the UK).
Each year Cornerstone chooses a charity to support at Christmas. This year the Cornerstone team volunteered at FareShare and cooked meals for people doing it tough after the recent bushfires.
FareShare rescues food that would otherwise go to waste and turns it into free nutritious meals for people in need.
Cornerstone team members chopped over 90 kilos of carrots, 60 kilos of celery, cooked 25 kilos of rice and made 300 litres of beef stroganoff.
Originating in Melbourne, FareShare opened it’s production kitchen in Brisbane in December 2018 as part of a collaboration with Foodbank.
In total, the Cornerstone team cooked 1,830 meals which were then delivered to elderly residents devastated by the recent bushfires in Yeppoon.
“It was wonderful to be able to give back to a community so clearly in need at this time of year” said Chief Operating Officer Norbert Miklos.
We are a huge supporter of rural and remote Australia, and so we are excited to partner with CRANAplus, the peak professional body for the remote and isolated health workforce in Australia.
CRANAplus is a non-for-profit membership based organisation that has provided over 30 years of education, support and professional services for the multi-disciplinary remote health workforce.
Our Nursing & Midwifery Division are looking forward to joining the 2019 CRANA Conference in the Hunter Valley, and have a lot to live up to after the Cornerstone Juice Bar in Broome is still talked about.
