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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