Employment Status: Casual and Permanent Part Time

Location: Caloundra Community Care

Remuneration Value: $30.81 - $39.12 per hour (FTE=$60,880 - $77,301) + 9.5% Super + Salary Packaging

Blue Care is seeking applications from experienced and passionate Registered Nurses to join our Caloundra Community Care team and provide acute care to our clients residing in their homes.  We have permanent and casual opportunities available so would suit Registered Nurses with acute care experience looking for casual flexibility or Registered Nurses looking for permanent contract job security.

Your role:

The current vacancies are a part of a new acute nursing team initiative which see us partner with local hospital(s) to support early patient discharge. As a Registered Nurse providing acute care, you’ll provide person-centred acute care to our clients within their homes in the community. The acute care service will be offered 7 days a week primarily between 7:00am and 8:00pm and rostering will be organised on a rotational basis within the team. The position will also have an after-hours on-call support requirement.

You’ll ensure a safe environment and apply best clinical practice to enhance and maintain the quality of our clients lifestyle, including their physical, social and emotional needs.

Your duties and responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to:

• Clinical assessments, monitoring and updating care plans
• IV therapy, cannulation, PICC, CVAD maintenance and complex wound care
• Continence management, medication management & titration, palliative care & chronic disease management

You’ll work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team, supporting one another to deliver outcomes and identifying opportunities for improvements centred on client’s health and wellness within their home. With no two days ever the same, you’ll spend the majority of your day on the road, completing your scheduled community visits, interacting one on one with clients and their loved ones!

We’ll look after you too:

As the largest not-for-profit provider of Hospital, Family, Aged and Community Services in Queensland, UnitingCare delivers services in over 400 locations - offering 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
• Flexible work arrangements, where we emphasise a work-life balance
• Access to financial, retail and lifestyle discounts and benefits
• Learning and development to support you in your role

With our family including The Wesley Hospital, Lifeline and Blue Care, we’re an organisation committed to service, 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 clients through enabling their independence and well-being. You’ll be confident working autonomously within a community care based setting and demonstrate:

• Current unconditional (Division 1) nursing registration with AHPRA

• Recent experience delivering acute nursing care services
• An ability to apply mobile information technology devices in the delivery of care
• Basic life support certification and a current driver’s license

• Evidence of vaccination (or proof of non-susceptibility) to vaccine preventable diseases

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 01/08/2019.

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.