Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse – Community    
Culture Connex Pty Ltd 

Location: Central Coast, NSW

Employment type: Casual 

Nursing – Community, Disability Services 

• Flexible Hours with casual loading. 
• Rewarding career, making a genuine difference to participants quality of life. 
• Join a provider with lived experience, who appreciates your worth. 
• Work with a diverse team, nursing for a varied client base. 

Recruiting a community based Registered Nurse in the Central Coast region to expand our growing team, supporting our valued clients. 

Culture Connex is a registered NDIS service provider located in Tuggerah, NSW. We are committed to uplifting and empowering people living with a disability. Unique in the NDIS provider space, our Managing Director is leading the way as a person with a disability and a NDIS participant himself. This valuable insight helps us in our advocacy efforts, allowing us to secure the support participants need while delivering high-quality services that are truly person centred.

ABOUT THE ROLE: 

Persons working within this role are responsible for more complex, specialised, and intense support activities. 

Provide specialist nursing care and support for participants with high care needs that assists and facilitates them to live more independently. To ensure each participant's health and clinical needs are met to reflect their individual needs and delivered in a respectful and dignified manner.

All practices are participant-focused and promote their choices, rights, and decisions. Due to the variable nature of participants, this role requires the Registered Nurse to promote participants' voices, choices and report any areas of concern. 

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Supporting participants with complex health needs, including performing complex health care procedures e.g., wound care/management, catheter care, enteral nutrition, seizure management, autonomic dysreflexia treatment, severe dysphagia management, complex bowel and bladder management.
• Conduct health assessments to participants receiving our services.
• Assess participants medication requirements and develop medication administration plans.
• Work as part of the team, using a holistic approach, to look at and make recommendations regarding every aspect of our participants' support.
• Provide high-level care assessments and advise of implications.
• Provide clinical knowledge and expertise to support individuals. 
• Develop and monitor support plans to meet the changing health needs of our participants.
• Educate personnel, including support workers and carers, on supporting participants with complex health needs.
• Proactively support participants' independence and social connections while promoting positive health and well-being.
• Incorporate Child Safe Standards in your practice when working with children and young people. 
• Report any real or potential risks of harm to a participant, including child and young people. 
• Review quality of support, services and work practices making recommendations formed on a continuous improvement mindset. Working collaboratively with the management team to implement recommendations. 

WHAT YOU WILL NEED: 

• Bachelor of Nursing or recognised equivalent.
• Hold registration with AHPRA and evidence of continued professional development under the AHPRA standards.
• Have knowledge of relevant framework, policies and procedures impacting the delivery of services to people with a disability.
• Current Driver’s License.
• Fully Registered & Comprehensively Insured Vehicle.
• NDIS Worker Screening Check
• New Worker - NDIS Induction Module
• Current CPR / First Aid Certificate
• Police Check
• Working With Children Check
• COVID – 19 Vaccination’s up to date
• Qualification in Disability work or Welfare (desirable).
• Qualifications in Respiratory nursing or Critical Care (desirable)

REMUNERATION: $55- $60 per hour, inc. 25% casual loading. 

TO APPLY: upload your resume and cover letter through SEEK. 

Alternatively, email *********@cultureconnex.com.au or contact the office directly on: (02) 4814 6***.