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Casual Registered Nurse

Casual Registered Nurse (multiple positions available)

Are you a Registered Nurse (RN) and interested in embarking on a career in home and community? This is a dynamic and exciting role for providing high quality person centred clinical services that facilitate positive health and wellbeing outcomes for CS#1 clients- for home care package clients through the Clinical Governance Framework.

About us:

CS#1 is a proud community based not for profit, organisation based in Narrabundah (ACT), who manages and delivers a range of services designed to meet community needs across the ACT and regional NSW. CS#1 is seeking a passionate and motivated RN who is excited to join our agile, fun, responsive home care team, and who shares our passion and connection with community. CS#1 website: Community Services 1 – Canberra

CS#1’s home care team is charged to support people over 65yrs in our communities to live their best lives safely and independently as possible.

About the role:

CS#1 is seeking a qualified RN for the clinical care in line with our important Clinical Governance Framework. The RN will work with the Support at Home Partners to ensure clients receive the clinical services to achieve their goals and to remain living in their own home, reduce the risk of adverse events and hospitalisation or premature admission into residential care.

Reporting to the Support at Home Operations Director, RN’s will be actively promoting a culture that values a high level of customer service to clients and team members as well as valuing a safe and healthy workplace.

The RN will work closely with Support at Home team members to deliver clinical services and tasks assigned to clients in accordance with the clients Support Plan and in line with the Home Care Package program. RN’s will also contribute to the development of the clients Support Plan in collaboration with the Support at Home Partners, prioritising referrals, and ongoing supports as required.

  • Casual position
  • Annual salary commensurate with qualifications and experience (Nurses award), plus superannuation
  • Free Parking at Head Office, based in Narrabundah.
  • Provision of laptop

Qualifications and experience:

  • Registered Nurse with current Registration under the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). (Annual requirement)
  • Demonstrated sound understanding of risk assessment and duty of care for home and community care services
  • Demonstrated experience in successfully creating a culture of continuous program improvement, including participating in the quality assurance processes
  • Demonstrated excellent team management and organisation skills, including experience developing clinical awareness and competencies within a team
  • Demonstrated commitment to a person centred, enablement approach that upholds the independence, community participation, choice and rights of people over 65 years and carers
  • Degree or higher in Health Science, Applied Science (Nursing) or relevant fields such as Gerontology, Palliative Care, Dementia Care, Community Nursing (RN desirable).
  • Post Graduate qualifications in a speciality relevant to aged care nursing, Cert IV in Assessment & Training, Cert IV in Frontline Management (desirable).

Eligibility Criteria:

  • First Aid certificate with annual CPR recertification (ongoing requirement)
  • Own car and current Driver’s License
  • Current Criminal History Record Check
  • Current Working with Vulnerable People
  • Proof of Australian work rights

Benefits on offer:

You will also have access to fantastic benefits, including:

  • Travel allowance
  • Free on-site car parking
  • Portable Long Service Leave
  • Online learning management system with access to thousands of courses on professional development, wellbeing, and compliance
  • Structured performance and 1 on 1 development check ins and secondment opportunities
  • Access through our Healthy Me Healthy Us program to a suite of financial, physical, emotional, and mental well-being resources such as free flu vaccinations
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Program

You will be part of a vibrant team that truly supports each other and is dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of the vulnerable clients in our community.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you! We will be shortlisting and interviewing applicants as we receive applications, so visit the Careers page on our website to view the position description and submit your resume/CV with a cover letter for consideration to cs1recruitment@communityservices1.org

For further information about the role, contact Juliette (Executive Director Aged Care) on 02 6126 4712.

For further information about our recruitment process, contact Jolly (People and Culture) on 02 6126 4717.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At Community Services #1 we recognise that our people are multi-dimensional. We take a human approach to create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.

We believe that equality drives innovation. Our commitment to accelerating equality starts at the top with our board and CEO and extends across every part of the organisation. This comes to life when our people own the equality agenda, making it part of their jobs – every decision, every day – and feel free to speak up and to act.

We do not tolerate discrimination because of differences, such as age, ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion, or sexual orientation. We want a workplace that is inclusive and diverse, and we are set bold goals and taking comprehensive action. To achieve these goals, we collect information that allows us to track the effectiveness of our Inclusion and Diversity programs.

Community Services #1 acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander people as traditional custodians of the land on which we meet, work, live and play. We honour their continuous connection to country, water, sky, and communities.  We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander stories, traditions and living cultures and pay our respects to elders past and present.

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