Clinical Nurse

About the role

The Clinical Nurse provides expert clinical leadership, guidance and support to care staff to ensure safe, high-quality, resident-centred care. The role plays a key part in complex clinical decision-making, care planning, funding optimisation and continuous quality improvement, while ensuring care aligns with organisational values, best practice and accreditation standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical leadership and advice in the management of complex resident care needs
• Contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and review of resident care plans to promote health, wellbeing and quality of life
• Complete comprehensive and accurate clinical assessments and documentation
• Support staff orientation, mentoring, clinical supervision and ongoing professional development
• Promote a consultative and collaborative approach to resident care planning and quality activities
• Assist in ensuring compliance with accreditation standards, legislation and clinical governance requirements
• Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams, residents, families and external stakeholders
• Participate in continuous quality improvement, risk management and workplace health and safety activities

Requirements

• Current Registered Nurse registration with AHPRA
• Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent qualification
• Extensive general nursing experience with strong clinical skills
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of the Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI)
• Understanding of person-centred, resident-based care delivery
• Strong interpersonal, communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary team environment
• Intermediate computer skills and accurate clinical documentation capability

Qualifications

• Ability to meet relevant probity checks and compliance requirements

Skills

• Expert clinical leadership and advice
• Comprehensive and accurate clinical assessments and documentation
• Effective collaboration and stakeholder engagement
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Intermediate computer skills

Benefits

• Save tax and increase your take-home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum
• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme
• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
• Career development opportunities with one of the most trusted community and residential care providers in Australia to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference

Pay

$59.43 – $60.70 per hour + Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + Penalties & Allowances

Schedule

Full time