About Us
Real Community Services was established in January 2006 and now provides thousands of personal support hours per week to hundreds of people with disability, acquired brain injury or neurological conditions by focusing on empowering and improving their lifestyles.
At Real Community Services (RCS) we provide quality services to people living with a disability within an in-home or community setting. With a brilliant team across Sunshine Coast, Greater Brisbane, Ipswich and the Gold Coast, we are there to help our Participants to achieve their goals to live a fulfilling life. Real Community Services continues to deliver support by embracing the values of diligence, respect and innovation.
The Role
We are currently recruiting for an appropriately skilled and enthusiastic Full-time Registered Nurse or Endorsed Enrolled Nurse for a 6-month period (Mat Leave Cover), servicing the Sunshine Coast and Gympie Regions.
As a Registered or Endorsed Enrolled Nurse with RCS, you will be responsible for the individualized Clinical Support requested by our Participants. Clinical supports will be provided to participants receiving High Intensity Care within their NDIS Plans and may include: Wound Care, Bowel Care & Management, Diabetes Care, Seizure Management, Tracheostomy Management, Continence and Catheter Care, Ventilator Management, and Subcutaneous Injection Support. Writing clinical plans are an integral part of this role.
Our Nurses also provide training to the developed plan to ensure that participants support networks are trained to deliver care, and we would require you to be involved in that. You will provide a range of community Nursing services to assist people with a disability to improve their health and wellbeing to improve their ability to be actively involved in their local community.
The Candidate
Are you a person who likes to: make a difference in people’s lives? Adapt to different situations? Think outside the box to solve problems? Communicate with the Participants, their Workers and other Health Professionals?
We are seeking a motivated, dedicated and reliable Registered Nurse or Endorsed Enrolled Nurse. Our ideal candidate has a positive attitude as well as being reliable and proactive. If this sounds like you – please apply below!
Skills and Experiences
• Current Nursing Registration with AHPRA – with no conditions applied to the registration
• Prior experience in Community Nursing working with people living with disabilities and complex health care needs is highly desirable
• Experience in the delivery of Training to Support Workers (TAE Qualification highly desirable)
• Must have a QLD driver’s licence
• Current Paid employee Blue Card (or willing to obtain before employment)
• Current Paid employee Yellow Card/NDIS Worker Clearance (or willing to obtain before employment)
• Current First Aid & CPR (or willing to obtain before employment)
• NDIS ‘Worker Orientation’ module (or willing to obtain before employment)
• Full Australian working rights
• The ability to use Participant information systems and IT platforms
• Two current (within the past 2 years) professional references from a supervisor will be required
If you are passionate about providing Clinical Care to people living with a disability and would like to work in a role that is both challenging and rewarding, we would love to hear from you.
To find out more please call and ask for Niamh for a confidential discussion regarding the opportunity on 07 5415 0220
Please Note:
In order to be considered for this role you must have a minimum 3 years’ experience as a Nurse.
Keeping our Participants safe is our very vulnerable participants is our utmost priority. We strongly encourage our nursing staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID – 19 and Influenza.
Real Community Services uses an App. to assist Workers for reporting purposes. Your agreement and capacity to use the App to fulfil reporting obligations forms part of your employment conditions. The minimum compatibility requirements for Android is version 4.4 KitKat, and for iOS 9.0 (which is iPhone 5s or later). Please check that your phone has these minimum requirements prior to your application.