Registered Nurse

State Government of Victoria, Australia; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 24,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Nepean School in Seaford, Melbourne's southern suburbs, seeks a School Nurse to support students with complex health needs, promote health and wellbeing, and deliver primary health care within the school setting.

The role requires paediatric nursing assessment, careful record keeping, confidentiality, and leadership to coordinate care with families, teachers and health services.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to address complex healthcare needs of students, with paediatric nursing assessment experience.
• Experience in accurate record keeping, information management and care planning.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and professional conduct at all times.
• Capacity to lead and supervise staff delivering school health services.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing interventions and referrals via families to health professionals as needed.
• Deliver health promotion and education within program guidelines.
• Act as health resource to the school community and liaise with multiple stakeholders.
• Maintain safe working practices and document clinical activity for evaluation purposes.
• Work with welfare teams to promote a broad view of student health and wellbeing.

Skills

Paediatric nursing

Nursing assessment

Record keeping

Confidentiality

Leadership

Education

Bachelor of Nursing

Job description

Occupation: Medicine, nursing and midwifery

Location: Melbourne - Southern suburbs

Reference: 1544088

Location Profile

Nepean School, located in Seaford, is an innovative educational choice offering individualised learning for students with physical disabilities and complex health impairments. We currently have 136 students enrolled at Nepean School.

Our transdisciplinary teams work collaboratively with families to identify learning priorities, set goals and develop individualised learning plans for every student.

The transdisciplinary teams at Nepean consist of teachers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, registered nurses (RN1), and music therapists, who work together to design and implement engaging learning programs for all students.

Our school has three simple rules, in line with our commitment to the Random Acts of Kindness program. Our rules are:

• -kindness to self
• -kindness to others
• -kindness to the environment

In this way we are focusing on, teaching and celebrating positive behaviour traits, promoting responsibility and awareness of our environment.

Our school motto is:
`Together we Achieve the Extraordinary'

Our school has evolved into a dynamic learning environment, where every member of our school community is supported to achieve their goals and empowered to embrace life-long learning.

https://www.nepean.vic.edu.au/

Selection Criteria

KSC 1

Demonstrated ability to effectively address the complex healthcare needs of students and proven competency and experience in paediatric clinical nursing assessment.

KSC 2

Demonstrated experience in effective record keeping, information management, clinical assessment, and care planning.

KSC 3

Demonstrated ability in managing and maintaining high levels of confidentiality and professional conduct.

KSC 4

Demonstrated capacity to assume management responsibility and accountability for the delivery of services, with the ability to direct and supervise the work of other staff members.

Role

School nurses support the school in addressing contemporary health and social issues facing children and young people with a focus on health promotion and primary prevention including health education, classroom education sessions and small group education and limited primary health care including student assessment, referral and support. School Nurses works collaboratively with students, teachers, wellbeing staff, school leadership and school communities to build capacity and improve health outcomes.

Responsibilities

School Nurses undertake a variety of roles and responsibilities that may include (but are not limited to):

• Implement nursing interventions including referral as appropriate via the child¿s parent or guardian to health professionals/agencies
• Provide a follow-up service, which ensures children with health-related problems receive appropriate assistance
• Carry out health promotion/education within program guidelines and act as a health resource to the school community
• Act as an advocate for children and promote child health as a member of a transdisciplinary team, liaising effectively with parents, teachers, health, welfare and education personnel
• Observe safe working practices and protect own and others health and safety
• Use initiative and judgement to select and apply established procedures and practices to unusual or complex nursing issues in the school environment.
• Work as part of the school community, particularly the school welfare team, to effectively promote a broad social view of health.
• Communicate with a range of people in the school environment, the family and other service providers, promoting knowledge of and facilitating collaborative links between young people, families, the school community, relevant primary health care services and relevant community-based organisations.
• Maintain accurate and timely records of clinical activity for assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation purposes as required.

Who May Apply

Individuals with the aptitude, experience and/or qualifications to fulfill the specific requirements of the position.

Diversity and Inclusion

The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department.The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces.It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines ).

Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via [e-mail]

Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.

Child Safe Standards

Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:

The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees,including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:

This is a 2 day per week position working Wednesday and Friday from 8.30am to 4.36pm

Conditions of Employment

• All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
• Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre-employment conditions check.
• A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided.
• Detailed information on all terms and conditions of employment is available on the Department's Human Resources website at http://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb/Pages/default.aspx

Applications close Sunday 4 October 2026 at 11.59pm