Overview
Urgent Care Practice Nurse | Charlestown | Casual at ForHealth Group. ForHealth is committed to delivering quality, accessible healthcare across Australia with 95+ medical centres and 1500+ independent practitioners, providing 8+ million patient consultations annually.
Role
Urgent Care Registered Nurse to join the Charlestown Urgent Care Service. You will identify suitable patients for the service, triage promptly, and provide front line care in collaboration with the Urgent Care medical practitioner.
Why Join Us?
- Top of Scope Practice: opportunities to perform suturing, plastering, and more
- Creative Healthcare Model: growing model with international experience and recent Australian government investment
- Competitive Pay: above award rates
- Healthcare Leadership: leading provider in this growing area of primary healthcare
- ForHealth Group branded uniform provided
- Dental Discounts for you and your family
- Join a high performing collaborative team
Your Responsibilities
- Triages all patients who present to Urgent Care
- Conduct comprehensive and accurate nursing triage
- Act promptly for any triaged patients requiring emergency escalation or deterioration
- Perform procedural work such as suturing and plastering
- Demonstrate flexibility for the dynamic Urgent Care environment
- Deliver high-quality, person-centered care in collaboration with patients, families, carers and medical practitioners
- Ensure patients achieve desired clinical outcomes
- Provide essential health education to patients
- Complete all documentation accurately and promptly
About You
- AHPRA Registered Nurse
- Available evenings and weekends
- Working with Children Check and National Police Check required
- Experience in triage within an emergency department, remote nursing, or ICU preferred, or minimum 3 years in acute care
- 3 years’ experience as an RN preferred; ICU experience welcomed
- Ability to assess and recognise health deterioration and escalate appropriately
- Strong verbal and written communication and high critical thinking
- Ability to work autonomously and delegate when appropriate
- Personable with a passion for helping people
What We Offer
- 20% dental discount for you and family
- Fitness Passport – discounted gym benefits
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Health insurance discounts
- Provided uniforms
- Free onsite parking
- Ongoing training, development and support
- Flexible work options: Full time, Part Time, Casual
- Better work-life balance – no night shifts
- Competitive rates
ForHealth Group is committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people with disabilities, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, LGBTIQA+ communities, veterans, carers, refugees, and people of all ages. We foster a safe, respectful, and inclusive culture and strive to eliminate behaviours not in line with our values.
Location & Job Ads
Bar Beach, NSW; Charlestown, NSW; Newcastle, NSW and surrounding areas. Various Urgent Care Nurse roles announced periodically.
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