About Us

Nurse Next Door is dedicated to delivering flexible in-home care nursing, caregiving, and 24/7 companionship care options to those in the aged care and disability sector, helping people to live more fulfilling lives both at home and in the wider community. Nurse Next Door is a leading home care service provider operating in Australia, the UK, Canada, and the USA. We are consistently recognised as an employer of choice and are constantly on the lookout for the best people to help others live more enjoyable lives. We’re more than just home care, we strive to provide companionship, and a life lived as well as can be.

We Make Lives Better every day for our clients and care team through our 4 core values:

• Admire People
• WOW Customer Experience
• Find a Better Way
• Passionate About Making a Difference

The Role

Nurse Next Door Hawkesbury is looking to build our care team with a variety of roles. Working in the Hawkesbury and Lower Blue Mountains area. If you have current experience in community care/ home care/ Support Work/AIN (highly desirable) and working with clients with complex physical needs we want to hear from you. We currently have clients requiring support in the Hawkesbury Region and lower mountains

We truly believe in Nursing and Caregiving as a Career at Nurse Next Door, and we will help to support you in your growth and development. All team members receive direct and 1:1 support and training from our team of senior clinical care nurses. Your success is our success!

Positions Available

• Enrolled Nurse
• Support Workers

Making Lives Better® and Happier Ageing® are at the heart of what we do — enabling members of our ageing and disabled community to live a fulfilling life at home as long as possible, doing what they love to do.

What your Job Responsibilities will be:

Provision of skilled and quality in-home caregiving:

• Personal Care
• Manual Handling (including wheelchair transfers, variety of lifting machines including sling hoist, sit-to-stand lifter, etc).
• Mealtime assistance
• Catheter/Bowel/PEG tube care
• Companionship
• Medication Administration
• Light Housekeeping
• Assisting clients to access the community
• Running errands for clients

Benefits

• “Making Lives Better” Employee Rewards program (A Wellness program including discounts and cash back at hundreds of retailers)
• Flexible working hours
• Career development opportunities
• Work with a supportive and dynamic team
• Ongoing training

Mandatory Requirements

• Minimum Cert III in either Aged care, Community, Individual Support or Disability, Assistant in Nursing, or extensive industry experience or Student Nurse.
• National Police Check (Aged Care/ Vulnerable Persons Sector) or NDIS Worker Screener Clearance
• Working With Children Check
• NDIS Worker Orientation Module Completion
• Must have own vehicle and driver's licence
• You must be willing to undertake and complete our mandatory paid internal e-learning and competency programmes in the timeframe allocated to you.
• You must be confident in detecting and reporting any concerns to your clinical manager.
• You must be willing to think outside the box and find those gems that will make your client's life better.

Employer questions

Your application will include the following questions:

Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia?

Do you own or have regular access to a car?

Do you have a current Australian driver's licence?

Do you have a current Working With Children (WWC) Check?