Optimum Health Solutions is a multidisciplinary allied health provider with clinics across NSW and Tasmania, covering Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Exercise Physiology, Dietetics, Podiatry and Behaviour Support.
We're growing our community nursing team to support NDIS participants across Cessnock, the Hunter Valley and Maitland, anchored around our Cessnock clinic.
We're looking for a Registered Nurse who's comfortable working independently in the community, and who brings both clinical skill and a genuine, easy manner with participants and their families.
About the role
This is a part-time position to start and real chance to move into full time as your caseload grows.
You'll be visiting NDIS participants in their homes and communities across Cessnock and the Hunter Valley.
Day to day, you might be doing any of the following:
Wound care and pressure injury management
Catheter insertion and management (IDC/SPC)
PEG feeding and enteral nutrition support
Medication administration
Continence assessment and product recommendations
Building real relationships with participants over repeat visits, not just one-off appointments
What you'll need
Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse (Division 1), no conditions or undertakings
Minimum 3 years post-graduate nursing experience
NDIS Worker Screening Check clearance, or willing to obtain
National Police Check, or willing to obtain
Working with Children Check (NSW),



or willing to obtain
NDIS Worker Orientation Module completed before you start
Current CPR (HLTAID009) and First Aid (HLTAID011)
Unrestricted Australian driver's licence, your own reliable vehicle, comprehensive insurance
Right to work in Australia
Willing to travel across the region
Good to have, not essential
Community nursing experience
Confidence across wound care and pressure injury management, catheter insertion and management (IDC/SPC), PEG feeding and enteral nutrition, and medication administration
Venepuncture and cannulation
Compression bandaging and negative pressure wound therapy
Continence assessment and product prescription
Working knowledge of the NDIS Practice Standards and Aged Care Quality Standards
Confidence working autonomously as a lone worker, in the community or in clinic
The cherry on top
Post-graduate qualification (or equivalent) in continence, Continence CNC
Post-graduate qualification (or equivalent) in wound care, Wound CNC
Stomal Therapy Nurse (STN)
Why Optimum
This role starts part time, with genuine opportunity to grow into full time as your caseload builds.
You'll have a multidisciplinary team behind you, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Exercise Physiology, Dietetics, Podiatry and Behaviour Support, ready to loop in whenever a participant needs more than nursing care.

📌 Community Registered Nurse - Cessnock (Newcastle)
🏢 Optimum Health Solutions
📍 Newcastle