About Us

Real Community Services was established in January 2006 and now provides thousands of personal support hours per week to hundreds of people with disability, acquired brain injury or neurological conditions by focusing on empowering and improving their lifestyles.

At Real Community Services (RCS) we provide quality services to people living with a disability within an in-home or community setting. With a brilliant team across Sunshine Coast, Greater Brisbane, Ipswich and the Gold Coast, we are there to help our Participants to achieve their goals to live a fulfilling life. Our Nursing services commenced in 2021 and we have become a trusted, recognised and preferred provider in this space. Real Community Services embraces our values of diligence, respect and innovation.

The Role

We are currently recruiting for an appropriately skilled and enthusiastic Full-Time Registered Nurse, servicing the North Brisbane Region. Full-Time employment with RCS Nursing is Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm! No shift work or Public Holidays involved.

As a Registered Nurse with RCS, you will be responsible for the individualised Clinical Support requested by and in collaboration our Participants. Nursing Support may include: Wound Care, Bowel Care & Management, Diabetes Care, Seizure Management, Tracheostomy Management, Continence and Catheter Care, Ventilator Management, and Subcutaneous Injection Support. Writing clinical plans is an integral part of this role. Our Nurses also provide training to the developed plan to ensure that participants support networks are trained to deliver care. Your clinical expertise will assist people with a disability to improve their health and wellbeing and improve their ability to be actively involved in their local community.

We require the successful applicant to be competent in managing a caseload, building and sustaining the caseload, through expert clinical care and support, accepting referrals and performing the administrative tasks involved.

The Candidate

Are you a person who likes to: make a difference in people’s lives? Adapt to different situations? Think outside the box to solve problems? Communicate effectively with our valued Participants, their Workers and other Health Professionals?

We are seeking a motivated, dedicated and reliable Registered Nurse. Our ideal candidate has a positive attitude as well as being reliable and proactive. If this sounds like you – please apply below!

Skills and Experiences

• Current Nursing Registration with AHPRA – with no conditions applied to the registration
• Prior experience in Community Nursing working with people living with disabilities and complex health care needs is highly desirable
• Experience in the delivery of Training to Support Workers (TAE Qualification highly desirable)
• Must have a QLD driver's licence as you will be provided with a fleet vehicle for work purposes.
• Current Paid employee Blue Card (or willing to obtain before employment)
• Current Paid employee Yellow Card/NDIS Worker Clearance (or willing to obtain before employment)
• Current First Aid & CPR (or willing to obtain before employment)
• NDIS 'Worker Orientation' module (or willing to obtain before employment)
• COVID 19 Infection Control certificate (or willing to obtain before employment)
• Full Australian working rights
• The ability to use Participant information systems and IT platforms
• Two current (within the past 2 years) professional references from a supervisor will be required

If you are passionate about providing Clinical Care to people living with a disability and would like to work in a role that is both challenging and rewarding, we would love to hear from you.

To find out more please call and ask for Jo for a confidential discussion regarding the opportunity on 07 5415 0220 during office hours.

Please Note:

In order to be considered for this role you must have a minimum 3 years experience as a Nurse.

Keeping our Participants safe is our very vulnerable participants is our utmost priority. We strongly encourage our nursing staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID – 19 and Influenza.

Real Community Services uses an App. to assist Workers for reporting purposes. Your agreement and capacity to use the App to fulfil reporting obligations forms part of your employment conditions. The minimum compatibility requirements for Android is version 4.4 KitKat, and for iOS 9.0 (which is iPhone 5s or later). Please check that your phone has these minimum requirements prior to your application.