Registered Nurse

UnitingCare Queensland; Somerset Regional; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging up to $15,900

Meal entertainment packaging up to $2,

12 weeks paid parental leave

Diversity and inclusive leave

Career development opportunities

Job summary

UnitingCare Queensland is seeking a Registered Nurse to provide person-centred care in a residential aged care setting within Somerset Regional, Queensland. You will assess, plan and implement client care, ensuring safety and high clinical quality while supporting residents through meaningful activities.

Join a trusted Australian provider committed to diversity, inclusion and staff development. The role offers a collaborative team environment with opportunities to contribute to care planning and

Qualifications

• Assess, plan and implement client care within your scope.
• Consider physical, social and psychological requirements.
• Create and update care plans to reflect developing needs.
• Ensure clinical quality compliance standards are met.
• Work collaboratively with other multi-disciplinary team members.

Responsibilities

• Provide person-centred care to residents.
• Maintain a safe environment within the facility.
• Apply clinical skills to improve residents' quality of life through activities.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to deliver holistic care.

Skills

Assess client care

Care planning

Clinical quality

Team collaboration

Holistic care

Education

Registered Nurse

Job description

Skills

• Assess, plan and implement client care within your scope


• Consider physical, social and psychological requirements


• Create and update care plans to reflect developing needs


• Ensure clinical quality compliance standards are met


• Work collaboratively with other multi-disciplinary team members

Skills

As a Registered Nurse you will provide person-centred care to your residents, ensuring a safe environment within the facility and applying your clinical skills to improving their quality of life through activities that include:

• Assess, plan and implement client care within your scope


• Consider physical, social and psychological requirements


• Create and update care plans to reflect developing needs


• Ensure clinical quality compliance standards are met


• Work collaboratively with other multi-disciplinary team members

We encourage our team to be creative and enjoy themselves while contributing to our success. Come join one of the most trusted residential care providers in Australia.

Employee Benefits

• Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum


• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs


• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme


• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events


• Career development opportunitieswith one of the most trusted community and residential care providers in Australia to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference

BlueCare is proudly part of the UnitingCare Family, we’d love you to be too

Joining the state's largest network of aged care workers with its over 8,000 strong, bright team in blue, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. With more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, you are part of something bigger. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.

Child safe, Child friendly

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

• Provide welcoming, safe & nurturing services for children


• Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services


• Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur

Diversity & Inclusion

Our approach is simple -everybody iswelcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values.We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.

For additional support and to meet our RAP Team, email [e-mail]

Safe workplace

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.