This is an excellent opportunity for a clinically strong and compassionate Nurse Practitioner who is passionate about improving outcomes for older people, supporting hospital avoidance, and delivering high-quality, person-centred care across residential aged care.
About the Role
As the Nurse Practitioner, you will work autonomously and collaboratively in an advanced clinical role, providing expert assessment, care planning, treatment and clinical guidance for residents with complex health needs, chronic disease, frailty, dementia and palliative care requirements.
You will work closely with Residential Care Managers, GPs, allied health professionals, care teams, residents and families to support safe, respectful and coordinated care.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing advanced clinical assessment, consultation and intervention for residents with complex care needs
- Supporting hospital avoidance through early identification, management and escalation of acute clinical conditions
- Developing shared-care partnerships with GPs, Residential Care Managers and multidisciplinary teams
- Supporting advanced care planning, palliative care and end-of-life care
- Prescribing medications, ordering diagnostics and referring to other health professionals within scope of practice
- Providing clinical leadership, supervision, education and mentoring to nursing and care teams
- Supporting clinical governance, quality improvement, infection control and risk management
- Contributing to policy, clinical guidelines and best-practice aged care frameworks
- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with postgraduate Nurse Practitioner qualifications
- Eligibility for endorsement with AHPRA as a Nurse Practitioner
- Minimum 5 years’ full-time post-registration experience
- At least 3 years’ full-time experience within aged care or community care
- Strong knowledge of palliative care, advanced care planning and end-of-life care
- Experience supporting residents with chronic disease, dementia, frailty and complex clinical needs
- Strong understanding of Aged Care Quality Standards, clinical governance and aged care legislation
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and clinical leadership skills
- Ability to work autonomously while contributing to a collaborative multidisciplinary model of care
- Meaningful clinical leadership role in residential aged care
- Opportunity to improve resident outcomes and reduce unnecessary hospital transfers
- Work within a values-led aged care organisation
- Collaborative environment with GPs, care managers and multidisciplinary teams
- Opportunity to mentor, educate and support clinical teams
- Based in the Hunter Region, NSW
