Title: Registered Nurse
Our elite, charming residential aged care facility, Midland Nursing Home, has been caring for the elderly in Perth's East community since 1972. Midland Nursing Home, a part of the St Jude's Health Care Group, strives to feel like home for its residents and our staff are tasked with caring for residents as they would for their own family. Our experience in service delivery is reflected through more than 50 years of maintaining the highest of standards for our residents.
Role Summary
Our Registered Nurses play a crucial role in supporting and caring for residents at the facility, ensuring that there is a focus on maintaining their independence as they age. This is predominantly achieved through the provision of contemporary and timely clinical support and care, aiming to improve age-related deterioration in a resident's social, mental and physical capacities. These services are delivered purposefully, always seeking to assist the residents to live independently, and with dignity, self-determination and comfort.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Delivering clinical services, care planning, reviewing and assessing all aspects of clinical care
- Ensuring that a customer service focus is applied to all clinical care and service delivery
- Providing safe and effective clinical care that is derived from evidence-based practice and in line with scope of practice
- Providing leadership, supervision and coaching to the care support staff at the facility
Skills, Attributes and Experience
The ideal candidates will have significant experience working within residential aged care facilities, and an understanding of the needs of consumers who are residing in or transitioning to residential aged care. They will be familiar with the applications and particulars of the aged care act and aged care quality standards. They will also be familiar with managing challenging behaviours, particularly in people who are living with dementia. Our Registered Nurses provide a high level of leadership to the facility, including conflict resolution, supervision and striving for continuous improvement.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- A minimum 3-years experience working within residential aged care facilities
- Solid understanding of the current Aged Care Quality Standards
- Have the ability to establish trusting relationships and develop person-centered support that is appropriate to clients' unique needs
- Excellent organisational and leadership skills including conflict resolution, supervision and striving for continuous improvement
- Current AHPRA registration and a valid work right in Australia is essential
- Possess or willing to obtain an NDIS Worker Screening Check
This opportunity will be offered:
- Full-time or part time
- Various shifts, AM 0700-1600, PM 1530-2230 and night shifts 2215-0715
- Salary rates are above Awards and negotiable depending on experience
Midland Nursing Home is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If the above opportunity is one that excites and encourages you, we would welcome and encourage your application. If your application is selected for progression, then we will be in touch to discuss it with you soon.