About the role

Empowering Connection is a registered NDIS provider on the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. We were founded on lived and family experience of disability — and that shapes everything about how we work.

We are seeking a Registered Nurse to join our team in a specialist clinical oversight role, supporting a participant with high-complexity care needs in a Supported Independent Living (SIL) and community setting.

This is a casual position combining direct clinical oversight responsibilities with a small number of hands-on support shifts. You will serve as the clinical governance lead for a dedicated support team — ensuring all High Intensity Daily Activities (HIDPA) are delivered safely, competently, and in line with NDIS Practice Standards.

Our mission is to empower individuals to connect and thrive — living the life they choose. If you share that purpose, we want to hear from you.

What you’ll do

- Provide clinical oversight and governance for a participant with complex health, mobility and medication support needs
- Deliver and document competency training and sign-off for support workers across all HIDPA tasks — including rescue buccal/IM administration, SZEP protocol, complex feeding and positioning, bowel management, skin integrity monitoring, and compression/lymphoedema pump operation
- Develop, review and maintain HIDPA Care Plans, Mealtime Management Plans and nursing documentation in line with NDIS Practice Standards for High Intensity Supports
- Oversee a complex polypharmacy profile including medication reconciliation and administration records
- Provide clinical direction for manual handling sign-off
- Liaise with allied health, treating GP, specialists and families as the clinical point of contact
- Support incident escalation, clinical incident reviews and mandatory NDIS reporting




- Complete contemporaneous clinical documentation in ShiftCare
- Participate in a small number of direct support shifts alongside the team

What you’ll bring

- Current AHPRA registration as Registered Nurse — no conditions or undertakings
- Experience in community, disability, or aged care nursing
- Demonstrated competency in High Intensity Daily Activities (HIDPA) or High Complexity Personal Activities (HCPA)
- Complex medication management experience
- Competency in enteral and modified texture feeding support
- Manual handling and complex transfer experience
- Confidence delivering hands-on staff training and formal competency sign-off
- Strong clinical documentation skills
- NDIS Worker Screening Clearance (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)
- Current First Aid and CPR (HLTAID011 or equivalent)

Desirable

- Experience with lymphoedema and compression therapy
- Epilepsy emergency protocol (SZEP) experience
- Familiarity with NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission standards
- Experience in SIL or 24/7 community support environments
- Post-graduate qualifications in disability or community nursing

Why join us

- Values-driven culture — respect, kindness, choice, inclusion and excellence guide everything we do
- Small team where your clinical voice genuinely shapes how we operate
- Meaningful, high-impact work with real professional autonomy
- Prospect to help build EC’s clinical governance framework as we grow across South Australia
- EAP support
- Competitive casual rates commensurate with experience

Conditions of employment

- NDIS Worker Screening Clearance — mandatory prior to commencement
- Current AHPRA registration as Registered Nurse, no conditions
- Working with Children Check (WWCC) — South Australia
- Current First Aid and CPR
- Right to work in Australia

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