Registered Nurse - Community | Cessnock

Optimum Health Solutions; Cessnock; On-site; AUD 94,000 - 127,000; Part time

Job summary

Optimum Health Solutions is seeking a Registered Nurse for part-time community visits across Sydney's south and inner west, expanding to full-time as caseload grows. You will manage your diary, travel to NDIS participants, and work independently in the community rather than a clinic setting.

The role involves wound care, catheter management, PEG feeding support, medication administration, and continence assessments, with a focus on building long-term relationships with participants.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Provide wound care and pressure injury management.
• Undertake catheter insertion and management (IDC/SPC).
• Support PEG feeding and enteral nutrition.
• Administer medications.
• Conduct continence assessments and product recommendations.

Skills

AHPRA Registered Nurse (Division 1)

Post-graduate nursing experience

NDIS Worker Screening Check

National Police Check

Working With Children Check (NSW)

NDIS Orientation Module

CPR HLTAID009 & First Aid HLTAID011

Driven with own vehicle & insurance

Right to work in Australia

Willingness to travel

Job description

This is a part-time role to start, with a genuine path to full-time as your caseload builds. You'll manage your own diary and travel, visiting NDIS participants across Sydney's south and inner west, working independently in the community rather than in a clinic setting. The work is relationship-based - repeat visits with the same participants over time, not one-off appointments.

DAY TO DAY, YOU MIGHT BE

• Providing wound care and pressure injury management
• Undertaking catheter insertion and management (IDC/SPC)
• Supporting PEG feeding and enteral nutrition
• Administering medication
• Conducting continence assessments and product recommendations

This is a part-time role to start, with a genuine path to full-time as your caseload builds. You'll manage your own diary and travel, visiting NDIS participants across Sydney's south and inner west, working independently in the community rather than in a clinic setting. The work is relationship-based - repeat visits with the same participants over time, not one-off appointments.

DAY TO DAY, YOU MIGHT BE

• Providing wound care and pressure injury management
• Undertaking catheter insertion and management (IDC/SPC)
• Supporting PEG feeding and enteral nutrition
• Administering medication
• Conducting continence assessments and product recommendations

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 starting
• Current CPR (HLTAID009) and First Aid (HLTAID011)
• Unrestricted Australian driver's licence, your own reliable vehicle, and comprehensive insurance
• Right to work in Australia
• Willingness to travel across the region

GOOD TO HAVE, NOT ESSENTIAL

• Community nursing experience
• Confidence across wound and pressure injury care, catheter management, 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 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

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

WHY OPTIMUM HEALTH SOLUTIONS

Optimum is a multidisciplinary allied health provider across NSW and Tasmania, covering Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Exercise Physiology, Dietetics, Podiatry and Behaviour Support - all ready to loop in whenever a participant needs more than nursing care. This role starts part time, with a genuine opportunity to grow into full time as your caseload builds, and you'll manage your own diary while backed by that wider team.

THE PRACTICALS

• Location: Cessnock, NSW
• Employment type: part-time to start, with the opportunity to move to full-time as caseload grows
• Caseload: NDIS participants, home and community visits across the service area
• Travel: own vehicle required; travel across the region is part of the role
• Registration: current AHPRA Registered Nurse (Division 1) registration, minimum 3 years' post-graduate experience

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