This is a part-time role to start, with a genuine path to full-time as your caseload builds. You'll manage your own diary and travel, visiting NDIS participants across Sydney's south and inner west, working independently in the community rather than in a clinic setting. The work is relationship-based
- repeat visits with the same participants over time, not one-off appointments. DAY TO DAY, YOU MIGHT BE
• Providing wound care and pressure injury management
• Undertaking catheter insertion and management (IDC/SPC)
• Supporting PEG feeding and enteral nutrition
• Administering medication
• Conducting continence assessments and product recommendations

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 starting
• Current CPR (HLTAID009) and First Aid (HLTAID011)
• Unrestricted Australian driver's licence, your own reliable vehicle, and comprehensive insurance
• Right to work in Australia
• Willingness to travel across the region GOOD TO HAVE, NOT ESSENTIAL
• Community nursing experience
• Confidence across wound and pressure injury care, catheter management, 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 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
• Postgraduate qualification (or equivalent) in continence
- Continence CNC
• Postgraduate qualification (or equivalent) in wound care
- Wound CNC
• Stomal Therapy Nurse (STN) WHY OPTIMUM HEALTH SOLUTIONS Optimum is a multidisciplinary allied health provider across NSW and Tasmania, covering Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Exercise Physiology, Dietetics, Podiatry and Behaviour Support
- all ready to loop in whenever a participant needs more than nursing care. This role starts part time, with a genuine opportunity to grow into full time as your caseload builds, and you'll manage your own diary while backed by that wider team. THE PRACTICALS
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Location:
Cessnock, NSW
• Employment type: part-time to start, with the opportunity to move to full time as caseload grows
• Caseload: NDIS participants, home and community visits across the service area
• Travel: own vehicle required; travel across the region is part of the role
• Registration: current AHPRA Registered Nurse (Division 1) registration, minimum 3 years' post-graduate experience If this sounds like the right fit, contact Emily on [email protected] or 0420 765 530 to enquire.

📌 Registered Nurse (Cessnock)
🏢 Optimum Health Solutions
📍 Cessnock