Job Description
This residential facility is a spacious facility on the East Coast of Tasmania. They are currently seeking a Registered Nurse FUNCTION:
- To ensure the direct care needs of clients are met, through the implementation, oversight and continuous evaluation of care plans and individualised nursing needs of clients.
- Supervision and direction of other enrolled and registered nurses, personal care attendants and support workers
- To work within the philosophy of the organisation to achieve the highest possible standard of care delivery to residents
- Contribute to the maintenance of residential care standards required to achieve accreditation PRIMARY

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Maintain and ensure full compliance with all accreditation outcomes.
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care for consumers according to accepted nursing
- practice and standards
- Work in consultation with other health professionals and members of health teams, and co
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- ordinate the care of consumers
- Provide interventions, treatments and therapies such as medications, and monitor responses to
- treatment
- Review, update and clarify each client’s care plan
- Promote health and assists in preventing ill health, by participating in training and other relevant
- activities
- Answer questions and provides information to clients and families about treatment and care,
- within your scope of practice HEALTH AND PERSONAL CARE
- Delivery of high-quality care to clients
- Assistance in overseeing specialised nursing needs to clients
- Accurate documentation of resident needs in assessments, care plans and progress notes
- Following of care plans in the delivery of care to all clients
- Oversee, update, reassess and ensure the accurate implementation of all care related
- documentation – e.g. care plans, assessments,



wound charts, palliative care plans etc
- Ensuring clients choice is maintained in care delivery by providing appropriate assistance with
- personal care in accordance with care plans
- Ensuring clients independence is maintained in care delivery
- Ensuring clients are prepared for all appointments, outings and activities
- Reporting of care need changes to the Clinical Care Coordinator
- Prompt assistance is given to residents when it is requested
- Assistance provided to doctors when required
- Identify trends in care needs e.g. infections and reporting of same including client evaluations
- Acting at all times to protect the rights of residents, including confidentiality, privacy, individual
- choice and decision making MEDICATION DELIVERY:
- Completion of medication competency requirements
- Secure delivery of medication to residents
- Following of all policies and procedures relating to medication
- Ability to identify medication incidents and accurately report same MAINTENANCE OF DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM:
- Assist with the maintenance of a document control system throughout the facility that demonstrates continuous improvement and meets the requirement of accreditation
- Maintain accurate documentation notes, assessments and care plans
- Demonstrate accuracy and efficiency in the submission of documentation to relevant government
- departments within appropriate timeframes, where required COMMUNICATION:




- Communicate effectively with care recipients, showing patience, tolerance and understanding
- Demonstrate a high degree of effective teamwork
- Respect and maintain privacy and a high degree of confidentiality in relation to all dealings with staff, clients and others and in relation to the organisation ORGANISATION:
- Organise time and workload to allow for maximum work productivity in the time allocated
- Use safely and economically all equipment and supplies necessary to complete duties
- Work unsupervised as required SAFETY:
- Ensure personal work practices comply with the organisational work, health and safety policies and procedures
- Maintain a safe environment for all workers and clients within the organisation by reporting and documenting incidents or hazards in accordance with the policies of the organisation
- Abide by fire safety procedures and attend fire drills annually
- Attend manual handling education sessions annually PROFESSIONAL:
- Embrace the philosophy of lifelong learning, seeking opportunities to learn and expand knowledge and skills of self and others
- Maintain an up to date working knowledge of equipment necessary to complete duties
- Attend in-service education and staff meeting as appropriate
- Be willing to undergo a Federal Police Check every 3 years as per the Accountability Amendment Principles 2006. EVALUATION:
- Participate in an annual evaluation of your performance with CEO
- Identify problems with supervisor and initiate early action to resolve these SELECTION CRITERIA KNOWLEDGE AND

SKILLS:
- An employee appointed to this level is required to be able to:
- Ability and commitment to working as part of the team, display initiative and work unsupervised a

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