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Reference Number 33682
Position Title Registered Nurse
Employment Type Casual
Entity South West
Location Toogoolawah Alkira Aged Care Facility
Enterprise agreement Nursing Employees - Registered Nurse Level 1
Roles Available 1
Position Summary
  • Casual
  • Toogoolawah
  • $30.81 - $39.12 per hour (FTE $$60,881 - $77,301) + 9.5% Super + 23% Casual Loading


Your role:


You’ll provide person-centred care to your residents - ensuring a safe environment and applying best clinical practice that enhances their quality of life and physical, social and emotional needs. You’ll monitor care plans, maintain a responsiveness and holistic approach to developing needs and support them to live independently!

 

You’ll work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team, supporting one another to deliver outcomes and identifying opportunities for improvements centred on resident’s health and wellness. With no two days ever the same, you’ll apply your clinical problem-solving skills whilst delegating care responsibilities within your team’s scope of practice.

 

 

We’ll look after you too:


As the largest not-for-profit provider of Hospital, Family, Aged and Community Services in Queensland, UnitingCare has been welcomed into the homes and communities of Australian’s for generations. With over 400 locations, you will have the opportunity to advance your career from Coomera to Katherine and almost everywhere in between. We offer:

  • Charity salary packaging to pay benefits and living expenses from pre-income tax
  • Access to financial, retail and lifestyle discounts and benefits
  • Flexible work arrangements, where we emphasise a work-life balance
  • Learning and development to support you in your role
  • Unique career opportunities in multiple locations and services

With our family including The Wesley Hospital, Lifeline and Blue Care, we’re an organisation built on compassion, offering our people a values-based culture and benefits.

 

Your skills and experience:


You’ll be an experienced nurse who is driven to make a change in the lives of our elderly residents through enabling their independence and well-being. You’ll be confident managing your time effectively, working autonomously and demonstrate:

  • Excellent communication and clinical problem solving skills
  • 2+ years general nursing experience, post-registration
  • Confidence with smart phones and digital devices or willingness to learn
  • Full, unrestricted AHPRA registration and unlimited work entitlements
  • Current Australian Driver’s License.

 

Ready to work together? To apply for this opportunity, please click on the 'Apply' button below to be taken to our online application process. We look forward to receiving your application by 7 July 2019.

 


We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.

 

Through our values UnitingCare are proud of our teams diversity, we believe in the strength of a diverse and inclusive workforce to help us achieve the best outcomes for the communities in which we operate and serve. We highly encourage applications from people who identify as a part of the Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Community.

Selection Criteria Desirable: Do you hold current AHPRA registration?
Desirable: Do you hold the required qualifications for this role? Please note you WILL be required to provide copies during the interview process.
Desirable: Do you hold a current First Aid and CPR Certificate – or the willingness to obtain?
Desirable: Do you hold a current Blue Card or Yellow Card or the willingness to obtain?
Desirable: Are you confident utilising smart phones and digital devices such as iPads etc? If not, are you willing to learn?
Contact Person Julie Briscoe
Contact Number 54234200
Alternate Contact Person Diane Brown
Alternate Contact Number 54234200
Closing Date 07/07/2019
Position Description Registered Nurse (Residential).doc
Application Guide click here to view