Registered Nurse
Visa sponsorship
Healthcare · Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia · Full-Time · $90,000 - $130,000/yr · Visa: Employer sponsored
This full-time Registered Nurse job is with an aged care organisation in regional New South Wales, near Wagga Wagga. The organisation is community-owned and not-for-profit. It has cared for older people and their families for 40 years.
You join the clinical team and report to the Deputy Director of Nursing. On your shift you are the clinical leader. You back up the care staff and help residents keep their dignity, independence and wellbeing. Aged care experience is highly regarded. Nurses from other clinical backgrounds are encouraged to apply as well.
Employer sponsorship opportunities are available for suitably qualified international candidates. They are subject to eligibility, professional registration, migration requirements and the organisation's approval.
Give yourself a fair chance with a tidy English CV. Your Bachelor of Nursing, AHPRA registration and medication and wound care experience belong on the first page. You can put together a Wagga Wagga aged care Registered Nurse CV on Build AI CV.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and give nursing care that fits each resident's own needs and preferences
- Carry out clinical assessments, write care plans and review how residents are doing
- Give medications, Schedule 8 medications included, as legislation and the organisation's procedures require
- Look after wounds, monitor residents clinically and escalate any change in their health
- Supervise and support Enrolled Nurses and care staff, and delegate work to them
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation and, where required, add to AN-ACC assessments
- Join in incident management, infection prevention and quality improvement
- Talk with residents, families, medical practitioners and allied health professionals, and support compliance with the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards and professional nursing requirements
Requirements & Eligibility
- Bachelor of Nursing, or an equivalent qualification that is recognised
- Registered Nurse holding current registration with AHPRA
- Strong skills in clinical assessment, medication management and care planning
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Excellent leadership skills
- Able to work independently, put clinical responsibilities in order of priority and respond as resident needs change
- An understanding of the quality, safety and clinical governance requirements of aged care
- Committed to the dignity, choice and independence of residents
- Able to meet the aged care worker screening requirements that apply
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