Care Fast Group is seeking compassionate, confident and experienced Enrolled Nurses (ENs) and Registered Nurses (RNs) to support people living with disability across Melbourne.
This role combines nursing care with person-centred disability support in participants’ homes, Supported Independent Living environments and community settings.
About the Role
You will work alongside participants, families, Disability Support Workers, allied health professionals and Care Fast’s service-delivery team to provide safe, respectful and clinically appropriate support.
Duties will depend on your registration category, individual scope of practice, demonstrated competency, the participant’s assessed needs and Care Fast’s authorisation. They may include:
- Undertaking or contributing to nursing assessments and ongoing health monitoring.
- Developing, implementing and reviewing nursing and clinical support plans, as appropriate to the role.
- Medication administration, monitoring, documentation, reconciliation and management.
- Monitoring vital signs, blood glucose levels, pain, hydration, nutrition, skin integrity and general wellbeing.
- Wound assessment, pressure-injury prevention and wound care.
- Diabetes support, insulin administration and other subcutaneous injections.
- Enteral feeding and PEG-related support when needed.
- Dysphagia and mealtime-management support.
- Urinary catheter, continence, stoma and complex bowel-care support.
- Epilepsy and seizure-management support.
- Respiratory, tracheostomy or ventilator-related support where appropriately qualified, trained and authorised.
- Supporting participants with chronic conditions, mental health needs and other complex health presentations.
- Personal care, mobility assistance, transfers and activities of daily living.
- Recognising clinical deterioration and taking appropriate action, including escalation to emergency services or relevant health practitioners.
- Implementing recommendations from medical and allied health professionals.
- Maintaining accurate progress notes, medication records, clinical observations, handovers and incident reports.
- Supporting participants to attend appointments and access their community.
- Promoting participant choice, dignity, privacy, independence and informed decision-making.
- Working collaboratively with families, guardians, support coordinators, allied health practitioners and Care Fast management.
Where included in the position description, appropriately experienced Registered Nurses may also:
- Complete comprehensive nursing assessments and clinical risk assessments.
- Develop and review participant-specific nursing and high-intensity support plans.
- Provide clinical guidance, training and support to Disability Support Workers.
- Assess and document worker competency for participant-specific clinical supports.
- Delegate and supervise nursing-related activities where legally and professionally appropriate.
- Participate in clinical governance, incident review and quality-improvement activities.
Clinical Safety and Professional Accountability
All nurses engaged by Care Fast Group are required to:
- Practise only within their individual scope of practice, level of competence, registration category and formal Care Fast authorisation.
- Comply with applicable Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia standards, codes and guidelines.
- Follow the NDIS Code of Conduct, NDIS Practice Standards, participant support plans, behaviour support plans, risk assessments and Care Fast policies.
- Undertake clinical procedures only when a current participant-specific plan is in place and the nurse has completed any required training and competency assessment.
- Obtain consent and deliver care in the least restrictive, safest and most person-centred manner possible.
- Follow medication-management, infection-control, manual-handling, privacy, safeguarding and emergency-response procedures.
- Promptly document and escalate medication errors, incidents, clinical deterioration, suspected abuse or neglect, unauthorised restrictive practices and other safety concerns.
- Maintain professional boundaries and the confidentiality of participant and organisational information.
- Maintain all registrations, checks, qualifications and certifications required for the role.
- Promptly notify Care Fast Group of any change to their AHPRA registration, screening clearance, driver’s licence, insurance or other credential that may affect their ability to perform the role safely.
Mandatory Requirements
Applicants must have:
- Current AHPRA registration as an Enrolled Nurse or Registered Nurse, with no condition, notation, undertaking or restriction that prevents the safe performance of the role’s inherent requirements.
- An Australian-recognised nursing qualification.
- For medication-related duties, appropriate medication qualifications, authority and demonstrated competency. An EN must not have a registration notation preventing the medication duties required by the position.
- A current NDIS Worker Screening clearance, or eligibility to obtain the required clearance before commencing unsupervised work.
- A current Working with Children Clearance where the position involves child-related work.
- A satisfactory National Police Check where required by Care Fast policy or the relevant service.
- Current First Aid and CPR certification.
- Completion of the NDIS Worker Orientation Module, Quality, Safety and You, or willingness to complete it before commencement.
- Current Australian working rights.
- Strong written, verbal and electronic documentation skills.
- The ability to understand and follow clinical plans, medication charts, risk assessments and escalation procedures.
- The ability to perform the inherent requirements of the role, with reasonable adjustments considered where appropriate.
- Willingness to complete participant-specific training, competency assessments and Care Fast’s mandatory induction requirements.
Highly Regarded
Previous experience in one or more of the following areas will be highly regarded:
- NDIS or disability services.
- Supported Independent Living.
- Community or home nursing.
- Complex or high-intensity support.
- Mental health or psychosocial disability.
- Behaviour support and trauma-informed care.
- Medication management.
- Wound, continence, enteral-feeding, diabetes, seizure or respiratory care.
- Clinical training, delegation, supervision or competency assessment.
- Electronic care-management and clinical-record systems.
About You
You will be:
- Compassionate, respectful and committed to participant choice and control.
- Clinically confident while recognising the limits of your scope and competence.
- Calm and professional when responding to complex needs, behaviours of concern or emergencies.
- Comfortable collaborating within a multidisciplinary team.
- Capable of producing clear, timely and accurate documentation.
- Willing to work across different participant environments and rostered hours, depending on service needs.
Why Join Care Fast Group?
Care Fast Group is committed to delivering safe, respectful and person-centred disability support.
We offer:
- Support from an experienced operations and service-delivery team.
- Clear participant specific plans, escalation pathways and clinical-governance arrangements.
- A variety of participant and community-based support environments.
- Ongoing learning, induction and participant-specific competency development.
- Opportunities to use and develop your nursing skills in disability and community care.
- A supportive and collaborative workplace.
- Ongoing shifts and opportunities to take on additional clinical responsibility, subject to experience and scope of practice.
All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening, verification of qualifications and registrations, reference checks, completion of mandatory onboarding and successful participant-specific competency assessment where required.
Apply Now
If you are an Enrolled Nurse or Registered Nurse looking to use your clinical skills in a rewarding disability and community-care environment, we would like to hear from you.
Please apply through Indeed with:
- Your current resume.
- Your AHPRA registration details.
- Copies or details of relevant qualifications, checks and certifications.
- A summary of your disability, community or complex-care experience.
- Your availability and preferred Melbourne work locations.
Send your resume at [email protected]
Pay: $45.00 – $55.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
