Registered And Enrolled Community Care Nurse

Newcastle & District Nursing Service (NDNS) are a highly professional company, committed to excellence in Community Nursing and Disability Care in the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens and immediate surrounding suburbs for more than 45 years.

With the recent expansion of our Clinical Services, we are looking for experienced and dedicated Community CareRegistered and Enrolled Nurses in the Port Stephens area to support our growing clinical care team. We have a strong focus on delivering quality and effective clinical services and maintaining our clients health and independence at home, while fostering professional growth and development for our staff.

Being a Community Nurse with NDNS holds a rewarding career with flexible working rosters, caring team environment and the ability to work closely with our clients, often long term, so they are able to maintain control in respect to their personalised care needs.

As a Registered Nurse with NDNS, you will provide exceptional nursing skills through case management, client admissions, care plan reviews and clinical care including wound care, medication management and catheter care.

As an Enrolled Nurse, you will provide exceptional clinical nursing duties including wound care, medication management and catheter care.

We are looking for Nurses with flexible working availabilities, including mornings, evenings and some weekends.

Key Responsibilities -

• Provide and coordinate direct clinical care to clients of NDNS
• Clinical care skills, wound care and chronic wound management
• Manage client information through concise documentation, that supports quality service delivery
• Order client nursing consumables
• Provide leadership and advise to fellow employees

Essential Criteria -

• Current registration with AHPRA
• CPR (within one year)
• Working With Children's Check (or willing to obtain)
• NDIS Worker Check (or willing to obtain)
• Criminal History Check (or willing to obtain)
• A positive attitude and work ethic

Ideally, our candidate will have -

• Experience as a community nurse
• Demonstrated experience in client assessment, goal based care plan development, implementation of care services with an enablement focus and client reviews.
• Concise documentation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Computer skills
• Attention to detail and the ability to multi-task

What NDNS offer employees? 

• Employee Bonus Incentives including sign on bonus, finders fee, employee of the month, etc
• Above Award wages
• Paid kilometres and travel time
• Excellent training and development opportunities with career progression

Please send your application / questions to HR Manager - carina@ndns.com.au