At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide community nursing care to NDIS participants, building meaningful relationships.
- Company: Optimum Health Solutions, a growing multidisciplinary allied health provider.
- Benefits: Part-time role with potential for full-time, supportive team environment.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team with opportunities for professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in people's lives while developing your nursing skills.
- Qualifications: AHPRA registration, 3 years nursing experience, and willingness to travel.
The predicted salary is between 31500 - 38500 $ per year.
Optimum Health Solutions is a multidisciplinary allied health provider with clinics across NSW and Tasmania, covering Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Exercise Physiology, Dietetics, Podiatry and Behaviour Support.
We're growing our community nursing team to support NDIS participants across Cessnock, the Hunter Valley and Maitland, anchored around our Cessnock clinic.
We're looking for a Registered Nurse who's comfortable working independently in the community, and who brings both clinical skill and a genuine, easy manner with participants and their families.
About the role
This is a part-time position to start and real opportunity to move into full time as your caseload grows.
You'll be visiting NDIS participants in their homes and communities across Cessnock and the Hunter Valley.
Day to day, you might be doing any of the following
- Wound care and pressure injury management
- Catheter insertion and management (IDC/SPC)
- PEG feeding and enteral nutrition support
- Medication administration
- Continence assessment and product recommendations
- Building real relationships with participants over repeat visits, not just one-off appointments
- 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 you start
- Current CPR (HLTAID009) and First Aid (HLTAID011)
- Unrestricted Australian driver's licence, your own reliable vehicle, comprehensive insurance
- Right to work in Australia
- Willing to travel across the region
- Good to have, not essential
- Community nursing experience
- Confidence across wound care and pressure injury management, catheter insertion and management (IDC/SPC), 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 the 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
- Post-graduate qualification (or equivalent) in continence, Continence CNC
- Post-graduate qualification (or equivalent) in wound care, Wound CNC
- Stomal Therapy Nurse (STN)
- Why Optimum
This role starts part time, with genuine opportunity to grow into full time as your caseload builds.
You'll have a multidisciplinary team behind you, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Exercise Physiology, Dietetics, Podiatry and Behaviour Support, ready to loop in whenever a participant needs more than nursing care.
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Community Registered Nurse in Cessnock employer: Optimum Health Solutions
Optimum Health Solutions is an exceptional employer for Speech Pathologists, offering a supportive and collaborative environment that fosters professional growth and development. With industry-leading mentoring programs and tailored caseloads, employees can specialise in areas of interest while making a meaningful impact on clients' lives. Located in Sylvania, our modern facilities and multidisciplinary team ensure that you have the resources and support needed to thrive in your career.
