Are you a compassionate, experienced Registered Nurse looking for an opportunity to apply your acute nursing skills in a new environment? Join Carrington!

• Casual & Part Time roles available in our 4 Residential Aged Care Facilities
• Lead high quality clinical care delivery to ensure quality of life for our ageing residents
• Join a growing organisation & collaborative team committed to best practice

About Us

Carrington is a not-for-profit centre of excellence for retirees, providing a focus on person-centred quality care and health services to consumers of Independent Living, Residential Care and Community Care. At Carrington, we are committed to providing quality care for our Consumers so they can live a happier, healthier more independent life.

The Opportunity

As the registered Nurse, you will provide high quality clinical care to RACF residents, as well as leading the frontline care team to deliver safe and effective personal care and clinical care. Working closely with the facility's clinical leadership team, you will ensure our service & facility meet quality & compliance standards, and work to achieve best practice. Work with a skilled, collaborative team to prevent hospitalisation & maintain residents' quality of life.

The current opportunity is for 2 Casual & 4 Part Time RNs in our 4 facilities across various shift patterns.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring care services are provided so each resident is treated with dignity and respect, with their identity, culture and diversity valued.
• Directly supervising the care team, including providing on-the-job coaching and feedback, allocating breaks & training, and ensuring clear & comprehensive handover communication
• Conducting head to toe assessments and responding to changes or deterioration in mental health, cognitive or physical function, capacity or condition.
• Providing a timely emergency response to consumers with acute deterioration, falls and infections which may be compounded by co-morbidities.
• Managing residents': pain; continence management; skin care & wound management; acute, complex or chronic diseases.
• Managing and delivering medications safely and competently, consistent with quality use of medicines guidelines.
• Implementing infection prevention, control, antimicrobial stewardship and outbreak management programs.
• Undertaking assessments, developing and updating care plans to meet prescribed timeframes, ACFI utilisation and consumer needs, goals and preferences.
• Participating in case conferences with residents and family members, and consulting with other health professionals in relation to complex clinical issues

About You

Essential Criteria:

1. Current unconditional Registered Nurse APHRA registration with 3+ years' acute care experience
2. Demonstrated high level of clinical care and care management including assessment, care planning, monitoring and evaluation
3. Committed to person-centred approach
4. Demonstrated ability to successfully lead a frontline care team
5. Highly effective written & verbal communication skills
6. Compassion, reliability & integrity
7. Functional IT skills & documentation experience

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience in the aged care industry and the Aged Care Funding
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• Experience with computerised clinical care management systems

Enjoy our Benefits

• 6 month paid Ageing Australia training course with certification for nurses transitioning to aged care, equivalent to 20hrs CPD
• Competitive Pay, including loadings, potential performance-based increases and full not-for-profit salary packaging
• Employee sign on bonus – Earn up to $1,000!
• Employee Referral Program – Earn up to $500 for referring a successful candidate!
• 15% employee discount at our Rocksalt restaurant
• 10% off full price shoes at a local shoe store
• Enjoy our “Carrington Day” – an Additional Christmas Public Holiday each year

To Apply

Please submit your application including your current resume and a cover letter addressing the criteria in the 'About You' section. Applications will be reviewed as they are submitted. Recruitment for this position has commenced, and an immediate start is available for the right candidate.

For enquiries, contact [email protected]

We will not respond to unsolicited emails from recruitment agencies or applications from outside Australia