Community Registered Nurse

Optimum Health Solutions; Sydney; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

Optimum Health Solutions is seeking a Registered Nurse for community visits across Sydney's south and inner west, visiting NDIS participants in homes and communities. You will manage your own diary and travel, supported by a multidisciplinary team.

This part-time role offers potential progression to full-time as caseload grows, with opportunities to work across multiple clinics and settings within the Optimum Health Solutions network.

Qualifications

• Current AHPRA registration (Division 1) with no conditions
• Minimum 3 years post-graduate nursing experience
• NDIS Worker Screening Check clearance or willing to obtain
• National Police Check or willing to obtain
• Working with Children Check (NSW) or willing to obtain
• NDIS Worker Orientation Module completed before you start
• Current CPR (HLTAID009) and First Aid (HLTAID011)
• Unrestricted Australian driver's license, own vehicle, comprehensive insurance
• Right to work in Australia
• Willing to travel across the region

Responsibilities

• Wound care and pressure injury management
• Catheter insertion and management (IDC/SPC)
• PEG feeding and enteral nutrition support
• Medication administration
• Continence assessment and product recommendations
• Build relationships with participants through repeat visits

Skills

Wound care

Catheter management

PEG feeding

Medication administration

Continence assessment

Home visits

Diary management

Travel planning

Education

Bachelor of Nursing

Job description

Optimum Health Solutions is a multidisciplinary allied health provider with clinics across NSW and Tasmania, covering Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Exercise Physiology, Dietetics, Podiatry and Behaviour Support. We're growing our community nursing team to support NDIS participants across Sydney's south and inner west, anchored around our Sylvania and Croydon Park clinics.

We're looking for a Registered Nurse who's comfortable working independently in the community, and who brings both clinical skill and a genuine, easy manner with participants and their families.

About The Role

This is a part-time position to start and real opportunity to move into full time as your caseload grows. You'll be visiting NDIS participants in their homes and communities across the south and inner west, managing your own diary and travel.

Day to day, you might be doing any of the following:

• Wound care and pressure injury management
• Catheter insertion and management (IDC/SPC)
• PEG feeding and enteral nutrition support
• Medication administration
• Continence assessment and product recommendations
• Building real relationships with participants over repeat visits, not just one-off appointments

What you'll need

• Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse (Division 1), no conditions or undertakings
• Minimum 3 years post-graduate nursing experience
• NDIS Worker Screening Check clearance, or willing to obtain
• National Police Check, or willing to obtain
• Working with Children Check (NSW), or willing to obtain
• NDIS Worker Orientation Module completed before you start
• Current CPR (HLTAID009) and First Aid (HLTAID011)
• Unrestricted Australian driver's licence, your own reliable vehicle, comprehensive insurance
• Right to work in Australia
• Willing to travel across the region

Good to have, not essential

• Community nursing experience
• Confidence across wound care and pressure injury management, catheter insertion and management (IDC/SPC), PEG feeding and enteral nutrition, and medication administration
• Venepuncture and cannulation
• Compression bandaging and negative pressure wound therapy
• Continence assessment and product prescription
• Working knowledge of the NDIS Practice Standards and Aged Care Quality Standards
• Confidence working autonomously as a lone worker, in the community or in clinic

The cherry on top

• Post-graduate qualification (or equivalent) in continence, Continence CNC
• Post-graduate qualification (or equivalent) in wound care, Wound CNC
• Stomal Therapy Nurse (STN)

Why Optimum

This role starts part time, with genuine opportunity to grow into full time as your caseload builds. You'll manage your own diary and travel, with a multidisciplinary team behind you, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Exercise Physiology, Dietetics, Podiatry and Behaviour Support, ready to loop in whenever a participant needs more than nursing care.