Registered Nurse

Bolton Clarke Careers; Townsville City; On-site; AUD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous salary packaging

Private health insurance

Gym discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Bolton Clarke Group in Townsville invites applications for a Registered Nurse - Home Care. You will deliver holistic, client-centered care, assessing needs and promoting health in line with Consumer Directed Care principles while supporting care plans and funding processes.

Responsibilities include developing care plans, delivering evidence-based nursing, ensuring regulatory compliance, and coordinating with the care team to meet client needs in a not-for-profit setting with strong clinical

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or healthcare-related discipline.
• Registered Nurse with AHPRA registration.
• Experience in clinical assessment and patient care delivery.
• Understanding of Consumer Directed Care principles.

Responsibilities

• Promotes and delivers holistic care aligned with Consumer Directed Care and funds activities.
• Delivers safe, evidence-based nursing care to achieve optimal health outcomes.
• Ensures compliance with laws, regulations and organisational policies.
• Forms, reviews and collaborates on care plans to reflect customer needs and ACFI funding.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Medication administration

Monitoring

Person-centered care

Quality care management

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing

Healthcare-related background

Job description

Bolton Clarke Groupone of Australia’s largest independent, not-for-profit providers of home care, retirement living and residential aged care, operating nationally and internationally.Bolton Clarke Residential group now has 88 Aged Care Homes across QLD, NSW, VIC, SA & WA, with the inclusion of the Allity, McKenzie & Acacia Living Group.

About the Role

As a Registered Nurse - Home Care, you will promote and deliver a holistic, client-centered approach to care, focusing on client needs and rights in line with Consumer Directed Care principles. You will contribute to assessments, prevention, early detection, referrals, and health promotion activities, providing quality care that aligns with current nursing care plans. You will deliver comprehensive, safe, and effective evidence-based care to achieve targeted health outcomes while ensuring full compliance with relevant regulations and organisational policies.

Responsibilities include:

• Promotes and delivers a holistic approach to care, focusing on customer needs and rights in alignment with Consumer Directed Care and delivers the assessment, prevention, early detection, referral, and funding activities.
• Delivers comprehensive, safe, and effective evidence-based care to achieve optimal health outcomes for clients.
• Drives compliance with common law, regulatory and state legislation, and organisational policies and procedures relevant to the registered nursing practice.
• Drives the formulation, review, and case conference of care plans as needed, ensures they accurately reflect customer needs and support Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI) funding.

About You

To be successful in this role, our preferred candidate will have:

• Bachelor’s Degree required; Nursing, Healthcare is preferred. Any other related discipline or commensurate work experience considered.
• Minimal experience as a Registered Nurse in a hospital, clinical or residential setting, with expertise in patient care and medical procedures is preferred.
• Registered Nurse with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHRPA) Certification is prescribed.
• Strong knowledge of Clinical Assessment, Medication Administration & Monitoring, Person-Centered Practice and Quality Care Service Management skills.
• Excellent communication, adaptive thinking, planning and prioritisation, and cross-functional team working skills.

About this location:

Located on the beachside in Townsville and with stunning views to Magnetic Island, Bolton Clarke’s Rowes Bay provides high-quality aged care in a friendly, secure and comfortable coastal community.

Why Work For Bolton Clarke:

• Excellent work/life balance with shifts that suit your personal needs
• A caring team environment with strong clinical and allied health support
• Career progression and development opportunities
• Generous salary packaging and not-for-profit tax benefits – claim up to $18,550 tax free
• Private health insurance and gym discounts
• An Employee Assistance Program for staff and family

Our commitment to diversity: At Bolton Clarke we expect our staff to respect and value differences in age, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status and family or marital status.

Appointment to this position and ongoing employment is subject to your commitment to supporting diversity and inclusion.

If you have any further queries, please contact Kirby Heiler (**********@boltonclarke.com.au)