Job Description
About the role n
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 n
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Provide clinical oversight and governance for a participant with complex health, mobility and medication support needs
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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
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Develop, review and maintain HIDPA Care Plans, Mealtime Management Plans and nursing documentation in line with NDIS Practice Standards for High Intensity Supports
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Oversee a complex polypharmacy profile including medication reconciliation and administration records
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Provide clinical direction for manual handling sign-off
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Liaise with allied health, treating GP, specialists and families as the clinical point of contact
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Support incident escalation, clinical incident reviews and mandatory NDIS reporting
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Complete contemporaneous clinical documentation in ShiftCare
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Participate in a small number of direct support shifts alongside the team
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What you'll bring n
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Current AHPRA registration as Registered Nurse — no conditions or undertakings
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Experience in community, disability, or aged care nursing
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Demonstrated competency in High Intensity Daily Activities (HIDPA) or High Complexity Personal Activities (HCPA)
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Complex medication management experience
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Competency in enteral and modified texture feeding support
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Manual handling and complex transfer experience
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Confidence delivering hands-on staff training and formal competency sign-off
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Strong clinical documentation skills
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NDIS Worker Screening Clearance (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)
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Current First Aid and CPR (HLTAID011 or equivalent)
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Desirable n
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Experience with lymphoedema and compression therapy
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Epilepsy emergency protocol (SZEP) experience
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Familiarity with NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission standards
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Experience in SIL or 24/7 community support environments
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Post-graduate qualifications in disability or community nursing
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Why join us n
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Values-driven culture — respect, kindness, choice, inclusion and excellence guide everything we do
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Small team where your clinical voice genuinely shapes how we operate
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Meaningful, high-impact work with real qualified autonomy
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Opportunity to help build EC's clinical governance framework as we grow across South Australia
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EAP support
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Competitive casual rates commensurate with experience
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Conditions of employment n
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NDIS Worker Screening Clearance — mandatory prior to commencement
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Current AHPRA registration as Registered Nurse, no conditions
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Working with Children Check (WWCC) — South Australia
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Current First Aid and CPR
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Right to work in Australia
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