AddressHi there, we're Five Good Friends, and we're a new, modern and fast growing approved aged care and registered NDIS service provider. We help our clients, we call them Members, live vibrantly in their own homes by wrapping a Care Team around them and their families.
Our vision is to keep people connected to and engaged with the friends, family, homes and communities they love for as long as they desire. To do this well we need to provide great support along every step of their journey. Today we are looking for the right people to support some of their first steps. If you share our vision and commitment to people we welcome you to apply to be a full time Community Nurse for Five Good Friends on the Sunshine Coast and surrounding areas.
About the Role
As a Community Nurse you will visit and support people and their loves ones who are looking for the right provider of their care and support. You’ll help them understand how they can use their funding with Five Good Friends, whether on a Home Care Package, with a NDIS support plan and how we can work together to support them to live the life they choose.
Working with each individual you will complete a comprehensive assessment using our online assessment tool to create a story that captures their needs, goals and preferences. You will work together to understand what is important to them, what they need and want to stay living at home, and begin to plan how we can support this.
You’ll be an advocate for the use of our software, supporting Members and their families to use our FGF app to ensure they have access to everything they need.
This is the beginning of the onboarding journey with Five Good Friends and is critical for the development of great Help Plans and sourcing the perfect Helpers (care workers) to build a great relationship. Doing this well will provide a great experience and smooth transition into our Welcome Team and ultimately into ongoing care and support with Five Good Friends.
If you believe support for our loved ones needs to change, then please join us in creating a better, brighter, future by applying to be a Community Nurse with Five Good Friends.
Who am I and what do I care about?
Keeping people healthy and happy in the homes they love is what drives you. You love to learn what will make a difference to people's lives and you are uncompromising on quality.
You keep sight of the bigger picture, always working toward it and helping others to see it too. You are resourceful and creative, and look for the best way to plan care and support to maximise a person's funding and budget to suit their life.
You know that caring for a loved one is stressful, so you take time to engage with family and listen to their knowledge of what does and doesn’t work.
You're a great writer and a down-to-earth speaker. You are patient, and you give people space to talk. You understand the benefit feedback plays in providing a great service and shaping a great culture.
Experience and qualifications:
- Formal qualifications in nursing is a must
- Current or recent community, aged or primary care nursing would be highly regarded, however, we know how broad nursing is and how great many different people can be
- Strong and genuine interpersonal, oral and written communication and negotiation skills are important - you need to be able to talk with and support many different people, and handover top-quality information to your colleagues
- Understanding and experience in providing excellent customer service is valuable to us
- Experience in Wound and Catheter management is advantageous
- Current driver's license
- Successful National Police Check (we can do this for you)
- NDIS National Worker screening check (we can do this for you)
- Current First Aid and CPR certification
Work flexibly
You'll have a flexible work arrangement allowing you to work from home when you are not visiting our Members. At times people may need our support people outside of usual business hours so some flexibility on your part is important.
We have developed the best care management technology in the world that allows you to collaborate with your team from anywhere at any time.
Perks
The way we work and the perks we offer are designed to help you live a fulfilling life. The work we do is meaningful, and the problems we solve are interesting.
We lean on each other, we look up to each other, and we're kind, honest, and flexible with each other. We like coming to work and working together, but we're also parents, carers, siblings, partners, friends, students, athletes, gardeners, and hobbyists with a life away from work.
- We’ll provide everything you need to work
- We'll provide you with professional development opportunities
- You'll get four weeks of paid annual leave and ten days of paid personal leave. You'll also get an extra day of paid annual leave for each year you're with us after completing your second year
- You'll get a yearly $500 well-being allowance to spend on anything that betters your life away from work. Some of the things we've used our allowances on are running shoes, remedial massages, gym memberships, books, and dancing classes
- You'll get access to our employee assistance programme where you can get private and professional counselling if you need it at any time
- And if you are with us for 5 years... well you will be very surprised.
We’d love to hear from you
We strongly encourage candidates from all different backgrounds and life experiences to apply. Each new person is an opportunity for us to bring a different perspective into the team.
We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where you can do your best and most rewarding work. This is one of the reasons why we were just awarded as a Top Ten Best Places to Work 2024 in the health care category.
Why be a star when you can be part of a constellation?
If the above sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. For further details or just to have a chat please contact Amos Sharan at ***********@fivegoodfriends.com.au
No recruiters please.
