Registered Nurse - Night Duty
Southern Cross Care
- Mount Barker, WA
- Permanent
- Part-time
- Be the difference. Enjoy great rewards and benefits
- Bupa Health Insurance & Goodlife Health Club discounts
- Salary Packaging benefits up to $15,900 annually to maximise your take home pay
- 5 Permanent Part Time Night Duty available
- Week 1: Saturday - Monday (1010pm - 0730am)
- Week 2: Tuesday - Wednesday (1010pm - 0730am)
- Leading and supervising support provision for daily living in accordance with each residents care/ service plan
- Leading and promoting social and physical engagement in all resident interactions
- Assessing resident’s condition and functional ability and ensuring risks are identified, managed and evaluated, discussed with relevant staff/each resident or representatives and included in their care and service planning
- Ensuring optimal use of medications, monitoring for adversity and administering in a timely and safe manner
- Providing leadership, direction, support, mentoring and coaching to Personal Carers, Enrolled Nurses, Hotel Service staff, Lifestyle, Maintenance and Administration staff on each shift
- Ensuring there is a clear and succinct handover from shift to shift and relevant documentation in the 7 day handover sheet correlate with the progress notes, alert notification form, care plan suggested change forms and risk management plans
- Ensuring all staff read and comply with all policies, procedures and work instructions relevant to them
- Bachelor of Nursing with current AHPRA registration as an Registered Nurse
- At least 1-2 years of experience working as an Registered Nurse in an Aged Care Environment
- Sound communication skills with a level of English literacy that enables you to speak in a manner that older people can understand, as well as the ability to read written instructions and to write clearly and concisely particularly in progress notes
- Exceptional time management skills to manage own workload to meet deadlines and to support other staff
- Outstanding problem solving skills to balance supporting resident’s desire for independence and self determination to make their own choices against potential risks and duty of care
- High level understanding of the requirements to support residents living with dementia including those who display challenging behaviours
- Understanding of how to apply AN-ACC to ensure optimum levels of funding are achieved
- Excellent contemporary best practice clinical knowledge including of medicines used in aged care
- Excellent knowledge of the Aged Care Standards particularly as they relate to accreditation
Applications close: 4pm on Monday, 19th of February 2024