About the role

A Primary Care Nurse provides frontline nursing care to patients in community-based healthcare settings, helping people maintain their health, prevent illness, manage chronic conditions and access appropriate medical services. They ensure smooth and efficient functioning of the practice and provide an exceptional standard of care to our patients.

Key responsibilities

- Perform clinical assessment and patient care

- Explain procedures to patients, providing them with support and reassurance, including triage, immunisations, injections, wound management, chronic disease management, mental health treatment plans

- Assist doctors and other clinicians with patient treatment and follow-up

- Maintain clinical documentation and quality improvement

- Ensure sterilisation and maintenance of clinical equipment

- Assist with triage, data management, diagnostic services, networking with other providers, planning and management of patient care and patient advocacy

- Preventative health and health promotion

- Conduct preventative and screening procedures; assist with patient education and community health promotion activities





- Chronic disease management

- Care coordination and patient advocacy

- Mental health support and coordination

About you

- Appropriate tertiary qualification/s and registration/s

- Qualified indemnity cover

- Minimum of one year's nursing experience, preferably in a community-based role

- Demonstrated understanding of the needs of general practice and interest in community-based nursing including patient education and health promotion

- Knowledge of current immunisation schedules, diabetes management, asthma management, enhanced primary care items, infection control, chronic disease management, mental health treatment plans

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all ages, social and cultural groups

- Ability to work cooperatively and independently, with ability to prioritise and organise, with attention to detail

- Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development

- Demonstrated patient-focused approach in provision of services

📌 Nurse - Primary Care (Saint George)
🏢 St George Medical Centre (QLD)
📍 Saint George