About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 7,000 employees working in more than 440 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.     

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply. 

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Registered Nurse who strongly aligns to our values and is wanting to step into a new challenge and make this role their own. Your confidence to work independently, ability to create and implement processes and resilient attitude will be highly regarded.

This is a full time role that will be based within Canberra and surrounding regional areas. Travel will be required as this is a community based role, where you may be servicing multiple clients per day in the community.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide high level of health care assessments, clinical knowledge and expertise
• Provide assessments of ageing and disability clients’ health status
• Develop and monitor health care plans around meeting the changing health needs of individuals
• Provide training and support for carers regarding health care plans
• Educate and assess personnel, including support workers and carers, on how to support clients with complex health needs
• Ability to implement and adhere to process guidelines with internal and external stakeholders

Skills & Experience

• Degree qualification in Registered Nursing and current registration with appropriate board
• Significant experience working with people with a disability/ageing clients who have high support medical needs
• Current knowledge and demonstrated experience of clinical practice in the area of health planning
• Key skills required include; effective time management, organisational skills, strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to maintain high degree of confidentiality
• Current and unrestricted Drivers Licence

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Vulnerable People Check (where relevant to the role).

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Brooke Niass at [email protected], using the subject line: Registered Nurse - Community enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA).