AddressPurpose of the Registered Nurse role
As a Registered Nurse at Achieve Australia, your primary goal is to provide person-centered quality clinical services to people with a disability. You will monitor and review health care plans and focus on clinical and health management. This role will doing mainly active nights.
Why Join Team Achieve?
Achieve Australia takes deliberate steps to hire people from a wide range of backgrounds and life experiences. We believe this diversity of people makes Achieve a great place to work and better able to deliver quality services to the people we support. We are passionate about inclusion for everyone – our staff and the people we support. We encourage people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, abilities and those who identify with a disability to apply for our roles. Your unique skills and ideas are highly valued by us. Achieve is committed to providing equal opportunities for all.
At Achieve Australia, we put the people we support at the centre of everything we do. As a ‘for purpose’ organisation, we're more than just a workplace. We are a community passionate about bringing inclusion to life for people with disability.
What reasonable adjustments can we make to our recruitment process to welcome you?
We want to meet the best candidates for our jobs. Please email *******@achieveaustralia.org.au or call us on 02 9066-5*** to discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make so you can take part in our recruitment process and/or visit one of our sites.
Role Responsibilities: As a Registered Nurse, you will deliver quality clinical services to Achieve Australia clients including delivering complex health care procedures, developing, monitoring and reviewing health care plans, and clinical practice leadership with practical on the job supervision and education of nursing staff across a number of assigned sites. Your duties will include:
- Ensuring services are in line with current support service philosophy which promotes improvement in quality of life and fosters independence for people with a disability who have a range of functional abilities and complex needs.
- Assisting in the coordination of individuals’ lifestyles and of clinical services within resources, policies and guidelines.
- Ensuring that day to day administrative processes are operating effectively and provide effective feedback to the Residential Unit Nurse Manager on service provision.
- Coordinating and reviewing person centred support services that are consistent with individual/lifestyle plans; monitor and coach nursing staff with the implementation the plans’ goals, expected service standards and associated complexities of the people being supported.
- Providing staff with feedback, advice, coaching, training and support and agree on actions to improve performance, to enable them to maximise performance and meet budget targets.
- Building work relationships with local community partnerships (including families and carers) and with other stakeholders both within and external to Achieve Australia.
- Promoting a commitment to employment equity and diversity, workplace health and safety (WHS), risk management and ethical practices.
- Supporting the systematic approach to implementation of new/revised policy and process through staff briefings, training, monitoring, process and protocol development, records management and stakeholder communication.
- Tertiary qualifications or equivalent including holding a current Registered Nurse (RN) registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). ▪
- Current NSW Drivers’ License
- Current First Aid Certificate
- Current NDIS and WWCC certificates
- Awareness of human rights and challenges facing individuals with disabilities.
- Current NSW Driver's License – this is a must.
- Experience in working with and supporting adults and/or children with complex disability.
Achieve is a registered NDIS provider delivering integrated clinical, health, social, and disability services. Join us in providing exceptional support services in accommodation, community participation supported employment, and support coordination. We operate across Greater Sydney and the Northern Rivers regions in NSW.
What Sets Us Apart
Our Commitment
At Achieve, it's more than a job. Our dedicated staff make a positive difference to the people we support each day and in turn, we support our staff. We value our team in an environment where everyone can proudly be themselves. We embrace diversity, recognising the richness that different life experiences, languages, and cultures bring to our clients and to Achieve as an organisation.
Great employee benefits
- Salary packaging options mean you keep more of your take home pay before tax.
- Car leasing is another salary packaging option.
- Free personal and financial counselling for you and your family.
- Range of paid leave and flexible work arrangements.
- Support for a healthy lifestyle, including fitness memberships and wellness programs.
- Regular training and support to succeed in your role.
- A strong record of promoting from within.
Do you need more information?
Role description – If you would like a copy of the role description, please email our team on *******@achieveaustralia.org.au
About Achieve: click here to visit the Achieve Australia website to learn more about us.
Do you have any questions about this role or need any support applying for the role? email *******@achieveaustralia.org.au or call 02 9066-5*** and we will be in contact with you.
Achieve Australia is committed to safer recruitment practices, which safeguard and promote the welfare of the people we support, and staff are expected to share this commitment. To achieve this, your application may be subject to pre-employment checks including reference checks, a Police check, NDIS Worker Check, Working with Children check, right to work in Australia check. Please note criminal history does not immediately affect employment opportunities.
How to apply: To register your interest, please click ‘Apply Now’ and provide a resume and cover letter outlining your suitability for the role.
