Registered Nurse
Just Better Care
Job Description
Make a genuine impact within your local community by delivering professional in-home nursing care.
Enjoy a flexible, balanced work life and work independently with a wide variety of customers.
- Permanent Part time position
We are seeking compassionate and experienced Registered Nurses who are passionate about delivering high-quality, person‑centred clinical care in the community.
Working closely with an experienced Clinical Nurse, you will provide direct nursing care to customers in their homes while receiving clinical guidance and support. This is an ideal opportunity for Registered Nurses who enjoy delivering hands‑on, client foccused care.
About us:
Across Australia Just Better Care provides in‑home aged care and disability support services, supporting people to live independently. For over 15 years, we have been supporting older people, and people living with disability, to live independently in their own homes and stay connected to their local community.
Our friendly, compassionate and experienced team makes this possible.
As a Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for providing high‑quality clinical care to customers living independently in the community. You will work collaboratively with the Clinical Nurse and wider care team to ensure customers receive safe, effective and personalised nursing support.
Duties and responsibilities include:
- Travelling between customer’s homes and providing individual and personalised support to customers in accordance with their support plans and/or medical practitioner’s directions.
- Deliver evidence‑based nursing care in customers' homes in accordance with care plans and medical practitioner directions.
- Demonstrating a commitment to best practise, ensuring that all services are provided in a caring and respectful way in accordance with Just Better Care’s policy and procedures, and legislative requirements.
- Medication Administration and Complex Clinical Care i.e. palliative care, bowel care/suppositories, catheter care, stoma care, oxygen and more.
- Monitoring and communicating on the customer’s wellbeing and reporting on progress of customers.
- Ensuring that all services are provided in a caring and respectful way in accordance with Just Better Care’s policy and procedures, legislative requirements and program specific guidelines (i.e. DVA Community Nursing).
- Providing training, coaching and guidance to Community Support Professionals, Enrolled Nurses and Support Staff/Case Managers as required.
- Conducting skills assessments of Community Support Professionals performing complex care services as required.
- Demonstrating a commitment to best practice and evidence of continued professional development.
- Participating in staff meetings and attending training opportunities when required.
- Maintaining and updating data in company information systems
- Meeting the specified standards for the delivery of quality in‑home care and support services
About you:
- Caring, compassionate & friendly
- Demonstrated high level verbal and written communication skills.
- Reliable & dependable
- Proven relationship management with all internal and external stakeholders, as well as good interpersonal, negotiation and problem solving skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Comfortable using technology (i.e. mobile devices) for accessing rosters & recording customer assessments & documenting feedback
What you will need:
- Current Registered Nurse registration with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Criminal Record Check
- Current CPR / First Aid Certificate
- Current Australian Driver’s Licence
- Reliable, registered and insured vehicle (comprehensive insurance is required)
- Previous experience in the community care or health/aged care sector (preferred)
- Proof of Vaccination (where relevant) i.e. COVID‑19 vaccination certificate