Registered Nurse
Visa sponsorship
Healthcare · Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia · Full-Time · $90,000 - $130,000/yr · Visa: Employer sponsored
Do you nurse older people and want to do it in regional Australia? A community-owned provider close to Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, not run for profit, has served older residents and their families for 40 years and wants compassionate, skilled and motivated Registered Nurses to strengthen its clinical team.
The post reports to the Deputy Director of Nursing. During a shift you guide the clinical side of care, support the team around you and protect each resident's dignity, independence and wellbeing. Experience in aged care counts for a lot, but nurses with other clinical backgrounds are invited too. Suitably qualified international candidates may be offered employer sponsorship, depending on eligibility, professional registration, migration rules and approval from the organisation.
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Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and deliver residents' nursing care in a way that matches their individual preferences
- Carry out clinical assessments
- Write care plans and review the outcomes residents achieve
- Administer medications, Schedule 8 medications among them, as legislation and organisational procedures direct
- Provide wound care, watch clinical status and escalate any change in residents' health
- Support and delegate tasks to Enrolled Nurses and care staff
- Maintain clinical documentation and help with AN-ACC assessments where they are required
- Participate in incident management, infection prevention and quality improvement
- Liaise with residents, families, medical practitioners and allied health professionals
- Help the service comply with the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards and nursing professional requirements
Requirements & Eligibility
- A Bachelor of Nursing, or other recognised equivalent qualification
- Up-to-date registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA
- Strength in clinical assessment, medication management and care planning
- Excellent communication, teamwork and leadership
- Independent working style, able to prioritise clinical duties and respond when residents' needs change
- Understanding of aged care quality, safety and clinical governance, and a real commitment to residents' dignity, choice and independence
- Capacity to meet applicable aged care worker screening requirements
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