Community Registered Nurse

Southern NSW Local Health District; St Leonards; On-site; AUD 56,000 - 79,000; Part time

Job summary

The Southern NSW Local Health District is seeking a Registered Nurse to join the North Sydney Centre’s Home Nursing team on a permanent part-time basis. The role provides community-based care to patients in their homes across the lower North Shore, with a 32-hour week.

You will deliver wound care, medication administration, catheter care, continence support and palliative care, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, compassionate, person-centred care in the home setting.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with AHPRA registration.
• Current NSW Driver's Licence.
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, carers and a diverse range of providers.
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team and focus on service delivery and safety.
• Experience with electronic medical records and time management.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality home-based community nursing care.
• Wound care, administration of medications and catheter care.
• Continence management and palliative care as required.

Skills

Communication

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Time management

Education

Registered Nurse – AHPRA

Driver's licence (NSW)

Tools

EMR systems

MS Office

Job description

An exciting opportunity exists for a RN to join a dynamic team at North Sydney Centre of Northern Sydney Home Nursing.

Employment Type:PermanentPart Time
Position Classification:Registered Nurse
Remuneration:$41.23 - $57.88 per hour
Hours Per Week:32
Requisition ID:REQ693617

Who we are

We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.

NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination and racism.

Where you'll be working

You will be working with the Team at North Sydney Centre going into community settings on the lower North Shore.

What you'll be doing

The NSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Workforce will be compassionate, competent, confident, contemporary, capable and committed to leading person-centred health care . A position exists for a Registered Nurse to provide quality care to patients requiring community nursing care in their home, using an individualised, holistic and family-centred approach. The registered nurse works as either a Primary Nurse to patients within a defined geographic area or as a relieving nurse as allocated by the Nursing Unit Manager or as delegated. Nursing care and interventions includes wound care, compression therapy, medication administration, Catheter care and management, changing SPC and IDC, continence care and management, palliative care etc.

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

• Consistently demonstrates behaviours that reinforce the CORE Values of our organisation; Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment. Demonstrates these behaviours with all stakeholders; colleagues, direct reports, as well as our patients and consumers, and those that care for them.
• Registered Nurse –Division 1 with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA); and Current NSW Drivers Licence.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with patients, carers and a diverse range of health and non-health care providers.
• Demonstrated ability to work well within a multidisciplinary team, with an emphasis on service delivery, patient safety, quality of care and team cohesion.
• Sound experience using electronic medical record systems and office applications, and evidence of personal time management capabilities and effective negotiation skills.

The team enriching healthin millions of ways every day.

Applications Close: 25 September 2026

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