Community Registered Nurse

NSW Health; St Leonards; On-site; AUD 57,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

NSW Health is seeking a Registered Nurse to join the North Sydney Centre of Northern Sydney Home Nursing in a permanent part-time role. You will work across the lower North Shore communities, providing holistic home-based nursing care and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams.

The successful candidate will be an experienced RN with AHPRA registration, a NSW driver’s licence, and strong communication skills. Immunisation requirements and OASV policy compliance apply.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with AHPRA RN registration and NSW Driver’s Licence.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with patients, carers and health professionals.
• Experience in multidisciplinary team environments and safe patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality community nursing care in the patient’s home.
• Serve as Primary Nurse within a defined geographic area or as relieving nurse as allocated.
• Care tasks include wound care, catheter care, continence care, medication administration and palliative care.

Skills

Communication

Time management

Negotiation

Teamwork

Education

AHPRA RN registration

Tools

EMR systems

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.
  

This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in theNSW Health OASV Policy(Page 11).You will be required to complete theOASV Undertaking/ Declaration FormandTB Assessment Toolduring the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with anyother vaccination evidence that you may have.

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Applications Close: 25 September 2026