21 Oct
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Valmar Support Services
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Wagga Wagga
21 Oct
Valmar Support Services
Wagga Wagga
Compensation per hour: $55.04 Step Up Your Career with a Growing and Supportive Organisation Join Valmar Support Services and make a real difference. This is your opportunity to work in a progressive, inclusive, and supportive setting where your expertise and commitment will be genuinely valued.
About Us:
Valmar Support Services is a Not for Profit Organisation who thrives to provide high quality support services to people with disabilities, aged care services, community transport and supported employment.
About the Role:
The Coordinator - Registered Nurse is primarily responsible for coordinating the day-to-day delivery of person-centred aged care and related community services. The role coordinates participant services, staff and volunteer resources, service documentation, reviews, stakeholder communication and operational requirements to support safe, responsive and sustainable service delivery. In addition to the coordination function, the position provides registered nursing expertise for Support at Home participants. This includes undertaking clinical assessments and reviews, identifying and escalating clinical risks, contributing to care planning, making referrals, and providing clinical advice to participants, supporters, coordinators and care workers. Direct nursing care may be provided where it is required, authorised and within the Registered Nurse’s scope of practice, although routine direct care is not the primary focus of the role.
Key Duties/Responsibilities Without limiting the general scope and application of this Position Description, the duties include:
1. Participant Coordination and Service Delivery
- Coordinate negotiated, person-centred services in line with participant goals, assessed needs, service agreements,
funding arrangements and available resources.
- Arrange, implement, monitor and review participant service plans, applying wellness, reablement, independence and supported decision‑making principles.
- Maintain regular communication with participants and their supporters, ensuring they are involved in decisions and have accessible avenues to provide feedback.
- Respond to changes in participant circumstances, service delivery issues and unmet needs, and elevate matters that exceed the role’s authority or available program resources.
- Facilitate access and referrals to internal services, GPs, pharmacists, allied health professionals, hospitals, specialist services and other community supports.
- Advocate for participants and support coordinated care across providers, including case conferences and transition planning where required.
- Receive and respond to complaints and feedback in accordance with policy, implement appropriate corrective action, and keep the Manager informed.
- Identify service gaps, changing demand and opportunities for service improvement or growth in the area.
2. Clinical Assessment and Registered Nursing Responsibilities
- Undertake comprehensive and targeted nursing assessments for Support at Home participants in their homes or other appropriate settings, using approved tools and clinical judgement.
- Assess and monitor relevant areas including general health status and observations, cognition, pain, falls and mobility, skin integrity and pressure injury risk, nutrition and hydration, continence, medication‑related risks, chronic conditions, wound needs and other identified clinical concerns.
- Identify deterioration, acute risk, safeguarding concerns and unmet clinical needs, and initiate timely escalation or referral in accordance with organisational policy and clinical escalation pathways.
- Develop, review and contribute to individualised care and support plans, ensuring clinical risks, participant goals, interventions, monitoring requirements and escalation instructions are clearly documented.
- Complete scheduled and event‑triggered clinical reviews following incidents, hospital discharge, significant change, new clinical services or concerns raised by participants, supporters or workers.
- Provide evidence‑based clinical advice and education to participants, supporters, coordinators and care workers, while recognising professional boundaries and the roles of other treating practitioners.
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- Where required and authorised, provide direct nursing interventions within scope of practice, such as wound care, medication support, continence, catheter or stoma care, health monitoring and other community nursing activities.
- Ensure informed consent is obtained and participants’ rights, preferences, dignity, privacy, culture and supported decision‑making arrangements are respected.
- Maintain current professional knowledge, registration and continuing professional development, and practise in accordance with NMBA professional standards, codes and decision‑making framew
📌 Coordinator - Registered Nurse (Wagga Wagga)
🏢 Valmar Support Services
📍 Wagga Wagga