Title:  Registered Nurse

Role Summary

Our Registered Nurses play a crucial role in supporting and caring for residents at the facility, ensuring that their 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

Key Duties Include:

• 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 Enrolled Nurses and Assistant in Nursing staff at the facility

We are seeking candidates to work accross our Bicton & Bristol facilities. We are also specifically looking for night shift cover!

Skills, Attributes and Experience

The ideal candidates will have:

• Significant experience working within residential aged care facilities
• An understanding of the needs of consumers who are residing in or transitioning to residential aged care.
• Familiar with the applications and particulars of the aged care act and aged care quality standards. Familiar with managing challenging behaviours, particularly in people who are living with dementia.
• A high level of leadership to the facility, including conflict resolution, supervision and striving for continuous improvement.