Exciting Opportunities for Registered Nurses at Uniting Caroona in Goonellabah

Position: Registered Nurse
Employment Type: Permanent Part-Time and Full-time hours available
Salary: Up to $51.15 per hour + penalties, depending on experience
Benefits: Up to $5,000 relocation assistance or $5,000 retention bonus (conditions apply), Visa sponsorship available, generous salary packaging and employee discounts

About the Facility

Located in the beautiful township of Goonellabah, Uniting Caroona is surrounded by natural beauty. Our facility consists of four separate households, each with up to 20 residents. Our Uniting Household Model of Care empowers our residential care teams to support our residents in ways that help them maintain a sense of meaning and purpose in their daily lives.

Role Overview

• Clinical Leadership: Develop, deliver, and evaluate resident care plans to meet individual needs.
• Sharp Clinical Assessment Skills: Lead in providing clinical services, and liaise with medical and allied health professionals and residents' families.
• Supervision and Support: Guide and support our Personal Care Workers.
• Empowering Care Model: Our Uniting Household Model empowers residential care teams to support residents in ways that help them maintain a sense of meaning and purpose.

As a Registered Nurse with Uniting, you will practice holistically, utilising your critical decision-making skills to lead the team effectively.

The best part of this role is the opportunity to get to know each resident and become an integral part of their life. You will support their clinical care and play a crucial role in ensuring the care provided aligns with their individual goals. Are you ready to make the biggest impact of your professional career?

What We Offer You:

• A rewarding career with a leading human services organisation.
• Up to $18,550 NFP salary packaging available.
• Access to our U rewards program with exclusive discounts.
• Access to Fitness Passport – Live your best life.
• A supportive, inclusive, and collaborative work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth.
• Purchase of additional leave.

Click here to learn more about our great benefits: Benefits of working at Uniting 

Who We're Looking For

• Registered Nursing Experience: In aged or community care, or a passion to begin a career in aged care with experience in the wider health sector.
• Key Traits: Adaptable, empathetic, resourceful, great time management, and embodying Uniting's values of being compassionate, respectful, imaginative, and bold.
• Commitment to Contemporary Aged Care: You’ll hold a nursing degree with current AHPRA registration.

What to Expect

• Employment Requirements: National Police Check, reference checks, AHPRA registration checks, and an online medical check.

About Uniting Aged Care

When you’re part of Uniting NSW & ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them.

We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.

Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders – past, present, and emerging – and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work.

Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing, and inclusion of children and young people.

How to Apply

If you see yourself in this role, we’d love to hear from you.

Just click on the ‘Apply now’ button, fill out your details and submit.

We will keep you updated on the progress of your application.

We encourage applications from people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.