Registered Nurse- Newborough

• Progress with purpose at one of Australia’s largest health care providers
• Get ahead with salary packaging, benefits and professional development in a supportive team environment
• Registered Nurse Casual positions at Narracan Gardens. 

About the role

As the Registered Nurse you are responsible for providing clinical leadership to staff and ensuring compliance with legislative requirements to enable us to continue to deliver a high standard of care, services and most importantly a quality lifestyle for our residents. 

Key Responsibilities

• Provide social and emotional support to all residents ensuring that care provision is holistic and person centred.
• Actively manage and assess the care needs and clinical condition of residents
• Provide direction to all care team members on resident’s clinical needs including wound management, diabetes management and behavioural management.
• Understand and continually monitor the needs of each resident and any changes in their clinical condition or needs for example behaviour, hydration nutrition, continence, dental hygiene, cognition, mobility or deterioration including end of life care
• Providing clinical handover to the team across the home
• Conduct assessments with frequency in accordance with Calvary policy in addition to when the resident condition changes such as determination or return form hospital
• Assess and evaluate care and social needs for each individual resident in their care
• Develop care plans for each resident, ensuring consistency with current resident needs based on assessments and  regular input from residents and their families
• Participate in regular case conferences and manage ongoing resident assessments
• Activity promote close relationships with families and carers for the health and wellbeing of residents,
• Maintain processes for complaints management in the home, ensuring all residents and family concerns are addressed and resolved or escalated to the Home Manager.
• Timely assessment and treatment of residents when care concerns have been escalated or an incident has occurred
• Responsible to ensure medication management is provided in a safe and effective manner in line with legislative requirements and Calvary policy
• Monitor the availability of medical stock and other health related supplies to ensure sufficient and adequate supplies
• Monitor and support the systems in place to manage infection prevention and control.
• Coordinate and arrange appointments to ensure residents’ needs are met
• Contribute to or identify clinical risk and report, document and action in line with Calvary’s risk management framework
• Participates in meetings such as care reviews, medication reviews and falls prevention meetings.
• Ensure all documentation is managed confidentially and kept secure and in line with Privacy Principles and Calvary

About you

• Registered Nurse with current Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• High level of commitment, integrity, honesty and trustworthiness.
• An effective listener with the ability to communicate at all levels both orally and in writing
• Understanding of and ability to manage human resource issues with effective negotiation skills.
• Ability to understand and use information technology and programs such as Word, Excel, etc. and to learn new skills as required.
• Current National police check
• Working knowledge of WH&S and Infection Control
• A desire to join a team committed to the care of others in a mission based organisation

For further information please contact Agedcare.recruitment@calvarycare.org.au

• NFP salary packaging benefits, discounted health insurance and gym memberships 
• Paid parental leave 
• Professional membership to APNA, paid for by Calvary 
• Training, development pathways and career opportunities
• Flexible hours that make sense for you

• As part of the application process, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which may include, but is not limited to reference checks, work rights, criminal history check, NDIS/WWCC/WWVP checks, and a health evaluation to ensure suitability for the role