Nurse Practitioner

Geriatric Care Australia; Melbourne; Presencial; AUD 110.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Geriatric Care Australia is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to deliver on-site clinics at Aspendale Gardens, Victoria and Elemore Vale, NSW, with telehealth support across Australia, enabling proactive, preventive care for older residents.

Lead clinical assessments, care planning and polypharmacy reviews, coordinate with GPs and allied health, and participate in multidisciplinary care conferences and outcomes reporting.

Formación

• Endorsed Nurse Practitioner with current AHPRA registration.
• Experience in aged care, gerontology, primary care or chronic disease management.
• Confident in comprehensive assessment of older people including frailty, falls, cognition and medicines.
• Medicare provider and PBS prescriber numbers, or eligibility to obtain them.
• Autonomous and collaborative, with clear and warm communication.

Responsabilidades

• Lead regular on-site clinics with assessment, care planning and management of non-emergency conditions.
• Identify early signs of decline using a structured healthy ageing framework.
• Review medications and address polypharmacy and prescribing concerns.
• Refer residents for geriatrician assessment and link with GP, allied health and community supports.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary case conferencing, advance care planning and outcomes reporting.

Conocimientos

Nurse Practitioner

Aged care

Frailty assessment

Polypharmacy review

Care planning

Team collaboration

Telehealth delivery

Educación

Endorsed Nurse Practitioner (AHPRA)

Descripción del empleo

NOW RECRUITING

Promoting quality of life, health, and wellbeing for older people

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a Nurse Practitioner to deliver face-to-face, on-site clinics within a retirement living community in Aspendale Gardens, Victoria and Elemore Vale in NSW and Virtual telehealth support across Australia. This is an opportunity to be part of an innovative model of care that brings proactive, preventative healthcare to where older people live, identifying risk early and intervening before falls, functional decline, medication-related harm or avoidable hospital presentations occur.

What you will do

• Lead regular on-site clinics, providing assessment, care planning and management of non-emergency acute and chronic conditions


• Identify early signs of decline, including frailty, falls risk, cognitive and mood concerns, and nutritional risk, using a structured healthy ageing screening framework


• Review medications and address polypharmacy and prescribing concerns


• Refer residents for specialist geriatrician assessment and link them with their GP, allied health and community supports


• Contribute to multidisciplinary case conferencing, advance care planning conversations, resident education and outcomes reporting

Why this role is different

• Proactive and preventative. Work upstream of crisis with older people who are largely independent and receptive to healthy ageing strategies.


• Geriatrician support. Clinical governance, case conferencing, escalation and prescribing support from GCA’s specialist geriatricians.


• Multidisciplinary. A care coordination team collates referrals, clinical history and consent before each clinic, so your time is spent on clinical care.


• Innovative model of care. Help implement and shape a new model of care, with outcomes data that demonstrates its impact.

ABOUT YOU

• Endorsed Nurse Practitioner with current AHPRA registration


• Experience in aged care, gerontology, primary care or chronic disease management


• Confident in comprehensive assessment of older people, including frailty, falls, cognition and medicines


• Medicare provider and PBS prescriber numbers, or eligibility to obtain them


• Works autonomously and collaboratively, and communicates clearly and warmly with older people, families and care teams

ABOUT US

Geriatric Care Australia (GCA) is a for-purpose organisation providing bulk-billed specialist geriatric and primary care to Australians aged 65 and over. Our multidisciplinary team of geriatricians, nurse practitioners, GPs and care coordinators works alongside aged care homes, health services, primary health networks and community providers to bring timely, expert care to older people where they live.

We are committed to promoting quality of life, health and wellbeing for older people, and to building innovative models of care that make specialist geriatric expertise accessible in the community.