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**About Eldercare**

Eldercare is a leading not-for-profit aged care provider in South Australia with a dedicated team of over 1,600 employees. Our workplace culture embraces teamwork, innovation and a commitment to our purpose of delivering peace of mind with our care.

**About the role**
- Full-time Registered Nurse Level 2 role
- Located in Maitland, Yorke Peninsula with Regional Allowance
- Utilise your clinical experience and people skills in an engaging leadership role

Eldercare has an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse Level 2 to work at our Yorke Peninsula site located in Maitland (The Village). This facility is located in country South Australia approximately 3 hours’ drive from Adelaide.

As a **Clinical Leader**, you will be an integral part of our site management team at our Aged Care Facility located in Maitland. You will have the opportunity to work closely with staff, residents and families under the direction and support by our Clinical Care Manager and Site Operations Manager.

With sound clinical experience, you will have a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of high quality, individualised nursing care to our residents. You will actively lead and mentor staff, ensuring that each team member is equipped and empowered to deliver the best resident-focused care. Eldercare offers a well-supported working environment where high standards of employee performance and resident care are consistently maintained.

**To be successful you will have**:

- Extensive clinical experience as a Registered Nurse
- A Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent qualification, including a current AHPRA registration
- Previous leadership experience, managing and mentoring staff
- A genuine passion for providing individualised clinical care to support ageing in place
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with staff, residents and their families

***If you want to join our inspiring team, we can offer you**:

- Exceptional centralised support for operational areas including Palliative Care, Continuous Improvement and Work Health Safety
- High standards of clinical practice and staff qualification
- Attractive staff benefits such as salary sacrificing
- Great team environment with variety in the role

Please contact Tam Erskine, Site Operations Manager, on 8832 2293 to learn more about this opportunity.

To view the Job & Person specification for this role please click here
- To work for Eldercare, you are required to have a police clearance valid for working in aged care (unsupervised contact with vulnerable people) and the clearance needs to be less than 12 months since date of issue._
- As per Eldercare’s Employee Immunisation Policy, all Eldercare employees are required to:_
- _Be vaccinated against seasonal influenza by no later than 1 June each year _
- _Be vaccinated against COVID-19 as per current ATAGI guidelines_
- Exemptions on a temporary or permanent basis can only be approved by Eldercare’s Chief Executive._
- Eldercare welcomes and respects the diversity that our residents, staff and volunteers bring. Regardless of their culture, religion, spirituality, age, gender, sexuality, disability, socio-economic background or personal experiences, our people are included and respected._
- Eldercare is proud to be a Rainbow Tick accredited organisation. We are committed to supporting our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) residents, staff and volunteers to ensure they feel included and safe._
- Eldercare encourages respectful relationships and does not accept any form of gender_‑_based violence in the workplace. Eldercare is committed to preventing violence against women and is proud to be a White Ribbon accredited workplace to support victims of abuse._
- All employees can expect to receive fair and equal treatment and to be free from discrimination in all aspects of their life with Eldercare._
- Eldercare is proud to provide a smoke-free environment across all sites._