Endorsed Enrolled Nurse - Aged Care

 🕛Full Time and Part Time positions available 🕒
👩‍⚕️Permanent or Fixed Term (6 + months) – let us know what suits you best! 🧑‍⚕️
💲above award rates, Salary packaging, allowances, annual leave loading, relocation support, onsite childcare, childcare discount + more! 💲

Rural Care Australia (RCA) is a community-owned, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to delivering intergenerational services across the township of Merbein, Victoria.  We operate Chaffey Aged Care, a 100-bed residential aged care facility, and Generations Early Learning, a 72-place early years service which is one of Australia’s first shared site Intergenerational Early Learning services.

About the Position – Enrolled Nurse
Join our passionate and dedicated team of Enrolled Nurses at Chaffey Aged Care, where you’ll make a real impact on residents' lives. We’re looking for motivated nurses who inspire others and share our commitment to exceptional care and community. If you're driven by purpose and ready for meaningful work, we’d love to hear from you! Here’s what your day could look like at Chaffey Aged Care:

👓Overseeing the health of residents across a 24/7 roster under the direction of the Clinical Care Coordinator and Clinical Operations Manager

📒Delivering thorough assessments, ensuring exceptional reporting, and contributing to comprehensive care plan evaluations for residents

👵👴Enhancing resident wellbeing by delivering personalised care that aligns with care plans and individual needs

💊Bringing care to life by administering scheduled medications—topical, enteral, and injections (if qualified)

🔗Being the go-to trusted liaison for residents, their families, and representatives in regards to resident care, satisfaction and wellbeing

🙌 Collaborating with RN’s, PCA’s and CSA’s in the delivery of care, hygiene, mobility, meal management and dementia support to residents in line with our vision, mission and values

📈Following legislative, industry and organisational standards as it relates to quality, resident outcomes, care minutes, infection control, occupational health and safety and storage & administering of medications

😀Above all, bringing a cheerful attitude and compassionate approach to every interaction with residents.

Work across a rotating roster with the following shifts available:

🌅Morning – 07:00am – 15:00pm
🌇Afternoon – 14:00pm – 22:00pm
🌌Evening – 21:30pm – 07:30am

About You

As our next Enrolled Nurse, you are excited to bring exceptional skills, knowledge and experience to our team, including:

✔️a solid understanding of best practice, evidence-based care, and consumer-directed care, ideally within an aged-care environment

✔️Proven people and communication skills including relationship building, cooperation, and conflict de-escalation & resolution

✔️Diligent record keeping skills, coupled with confidence in utilising aged-care specific software applications such as MANAD and MedSig (or similar)

✔️Demonstrated knowledge and confidence when adhering to medication storage and delivery practices

✔️Responsive, reliable and dependable in nature

✔️Committed to delivering compliant and compassionate care to residents at all times

✔️Demonstrated knowledge of the Aged Care Act, mandatory reporting obligations, the Australian Aged Care Quality Standards, and the Aged Care Funding Instrument is highly regarded.

Benefits

We celebrate and reward our amazing team members who go above and beyond every day for residents and colleagues — Our benefits offering is strong and continually growing. As an Enrolled Nurse, here are the benefits that we have in store for you:

• 🕛Permanent Part-time and Full-time positions – choose what works best for you!

• 💵Generous annual salary packaging options to reduce your taxable income and increase your take home pay including:

• 💰packaging up to $15, 899 of your salary towards loans, credit card repayments, school fees, rent and bills

• 💰packaging of an additional $2,650 of your salary via a meal and entertainment card or sit-down dining and holiday/accommodation expenses.

• 👌Attractive above award salaries based on your qualifications and experience

• 💲Generous Allowances – boost your salary with our EN specific allowances including leader allowance, qualification allowance, change of shift allowance, PM and night duty shift penalties/allowances, uniform allowance, laundry allowance, on call allowance, + more!

• 🚚 Relocation support available for permanent appointments - Experience a tree change and affordable lifestyle in a growing community

• 🚗 Free onsite parking

• 🏫🚸 Onsite childcare with priority enrolment and discounts for the children of our employees

• 🧳17.5% annual leave loading to maximise your salary and encourage the use of recreational leave

• 🏦Salary packaging via additional pre-tax superannuation contributions and novated leasing options

• ⛈️ 📚 Additional leave provisions such as blood donors leave, extreme weather events leave, ceremonial leave and 5 days of examination/assessment leave per year

• 🤧Increased personal/sick leave provided based on employee tenure

• 📞Access to a private and confidential Employee Assistance Program.

How to Apply

Please submit your resume and respond to the application questions via https://employmenthero.com/jobs/job/6903fa0d-4dd1-452f-92fc-562af876010a/

Please ensure that you respond to the prompted screening questions as part of the application process.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Applications close at 11:59pm on Sunday 27th April 2025.

More Information

For a confidential discussion in relation to the position contact Jashandeep Kaur – Manager, Clinical Operations.

For more information in relation to the recruitment process please contact our recruitment team.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to an inclusive environment where every voice is heard, and diverse perspectives are essential to our success. We treat all individuals with fairness, respect, and dignity, embracing differences in race, gender, nationality, religion, age, sexual orientation, or any other unique trait that makes us who we are.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process (or employment) due to experiencing a disability, impairment, injury or incapacitation, please reach out to let us know how we can assist you.

We are committed to providing a culturally safe recruitment process and working environment for First Nations People and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. If you require any cultural considerations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process (or employment), please reach out to let us know how we can assist you. 

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