Community Registered Nurse

About the role

Newcastle & Hunter Community Health is looking for a Community Registered Nurse to join our clinical team. Enjoy the opportunity to work with a consistent client base, allowing you to develop strong professional relationships and truly understand each client’s individual needs, goals and preferences. Provide personalised, continuity-of-care while making a genuine difference in the lives of the people you support, visiting them in their home. You'll work autonomously in the field, but you're backed by a supportive team, weekly RN handover, regular team meetings, and a Clinical Care Manager with hands-on clinical experience.

Key responsibilities

• Medication assistance, assessment and monitoring
• Wound care and wound reports
• Intake and continence assessments
• PEG and SPC/IDC changes and care
• Care planning and reporting
• Support our support workers and new team members with the clinical side of client care

About you

• Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse
• Australian unrestricted driver's licence
• Current first aid certificate
• Smart phone and internet access
• Two contactable manager referees
• Confident working on your own in someone's home
• Community, aged care, DVA or NDIS experience ideal

Benefits

• Fully maintained company car with FBT paid and fuel card for full-time staff
• Travel time between clients is paid
• No night shift, no rotating roster, no working Christmas in a facility
• E-learning and face-to-face education relevant to your role
• Monthly and annual recognition nominated by peers, clients and manager
• Part-time option: $1.01 per work kilometre reimbursement in own car

About us

Newcastle & Hunter Community Health is a local, privately owned provider. Our clients are aged care, DVA, NDIS and private, and we look after them in their own homes across Newcastle and the Hunter. You'd be part of a small clinical team, not a number in a national roster system.