General Practice Nurse | Registered Nurse (RN) | Part Time | Gordon NSW

General Practice Nurse RN P/T

Are you compassionate, caring, enjoy learning advanced clinical care, hardworking, efficient, professional and just a nice, down to earth, honest, easy person with great integrity?

About us

Private Billing doctor owned General Practice in Gordon NSW, is looking for a committed and effective individual to be an important part of our patient focused and friendly team, delivering the highest level of personalised service. This would suit you if you enjoy working in a small to medium size clinical team in primary care of 7 doctors and 2 nurses, delivering the highest influence and care for your patients and you also like a level of autonomy to work towards clinical goals. You are efficient, effective as well as flexible in your approach as needed for wide ranging General Practice caring long term for all ages.

Qualifications & experience

• AHPRA Registered Nurse with more than 2 years nursing experience working in hospital or community

• A compassionate, caring nature with excellent communication skills. You will posess a real desire to effect better health outcomes for patients in the community.

• Organisational Skills, ability to prioritise and time manage in a dynamic environment, running own appointment book

• Ability to work independently with autonomy, responsible for the nursing function within team of 2 nurses job sharing

• Responsible and confidence to private bill for services in private practice

• Ability in procedural work as well as higher level consultation skills and project work for better patient outcomes

• High computer and technical abilities

• General Practice Nurse experience will be advantaged although full training provided for suitable candidate.

• Candidates living locally will be prioritised

Tasks & responsibilities

Practice Nurses are valued in General Practice. Practice Nurses firstly interact with, know patients well acting as advocate and friend. Their many duties include vaccinations, injections, wound dressing, ECG, CCM care planning, health assessments, recalls, nursing appointments, education, referrals, navigating the health system while also running Treatment Room, Infection Control and Sterilisation, Cold Chain and Medication Management. Practice Nurses can work in conjunction with doctors and also run nurse-led clinical initiatives for better patient health outcome.

Availability:

• 20 hours (2.5 days) per week with no weekends except vaccination clinics very occasionally, shared and with agreement.

• Friendly hours during normal business opening times, school hours are possible. (no after hours)

• 6 weeks possible holidays per year. Flexibility is required in rostering (also friendly hours) to fill in for same amount of time.

Benefits

• Be able to take care of patients where it matters for preventative health

• Maintain work life balance in this part-time local role

• Perform to the highest ability level in a top private nurse practice where you will be respected in your skills and knowledge.

• Exposure to all aspects of running a nursing department including setting clinical goals and policies.

• Fulfilment in seeing full cycle, long term care in patient interaction, getting to know patients through time.

• Many opportunities to enhance your skills and training through internal meetings, APNA membership, industry training courses/meetings and national seminars.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.