Disability Services Nursing Practice Lead

Vision

Our vision is to deliver high-quality, person-centred active supports that enhance the quality of life for the most vulnerable people with disabilities in Australia.

About Good Directions

Good Directions is an established registered NDIS Service Provider set up to allow participants to develop and maintain 100% person centred supports. Our goal is for participants to own and manage more of their personal resources. We do this through a 'shared management' approach that empowers people to live their lives in a way that they choose, with the right support.

Purpose of the Position

Ensure our service delivery is effective and compliant. This involves representing Good Directions – including to government agencies, NDIS, clients and other industry entities – on behalf of designated participants.

Responsibilities

Support Operations Managers to

• set up and provide participants with disabilities 100% personal choice & control

• Manage participant Health Support Plans and seek changes in funding for supports

• Ensure safe, consistent, thoughtful Nursing Supervision of supports

• Mitigate service delivery risks and raise material risks to management's attention

• Enable clinical tasks to be performed appropriately via Nursing Delegations of Care

• Increase Good Directions ability to take on new clients e.g. by developing relationships with hospital discharge departments

• Engage providers to develop and coordinate targeted training and competency assessments for support staff

• Respond to participant and regulators – e.g. management of enquiries, incidents reporting

Lead Good Directions nursing support service, providing substantive nursing leadership as a trusted advisor by:

· Managing changes through analysis, recommendation, and execution to:

• Continuously improve policies and procedures to comply with regulatory standards

• Provide thought leadership and constructive challenge to improve our practices - e.g. training for service delivery, medication records, assessing the service delivery quality

• Proactively ensure that information is ready for quality assurance audits

• Enhance national training processes and guidance for health-related tasks and nursing supports

· Offering consulting advice to Operations Managers, to enable them to:

· Travelling to participants, nurses and staff around Australia as required (9am-5pm Mon-Fri)

· Providing updates to the COO on training programs, clinical projects & workforce development initiatives.

Employee benefits

Remuneration will be $120,000 plus $8,000 home office & travel allowance. Other benefits: $2,000 training courses budget, professional fees reimbursed, birthday leave. Work Mon-Fri within a great small business team culture, in an effective decision-making environment. Participate in team leadership opportunities incl. up to three 3-day meetings in Australia/yr.

About you

· Technical: AHPRA Nursing Registration, Workplace training / Cert IV, Acute Care nursing, understanding of NDIS clinical/health related high intensity framework

· Clinical Experience: At least 5 years experience post registration, ideally in community disability, rehabilitation or community care. Experienced in working with catheter care, complex bowel care, respiratory care, epilepsy and behaviours of concern.

· Training and Education Skills: People management, leadership in practice improvement, communication, problem-solving, organisational and planning. Proficient in PowerPoint, Excel, and professional report writing, with demonstrated experience in designing and delivering training to multidisciplinary teams.

· Ability to travel, unrestricted driver's license.

· Holds or willing to obtain: NDIS Worker Check, WWCC, Police Check, and required vaccinations.

To hear more about this opportunity and the model of service delivery that Good Directions has in place to empower people with disabilities and their families, apply now.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Professional development assistance
• Travel reimbursement

Application Question(s):

• Please provide a covering letter (required).
• Can you describe the key differences between supporting a person with a disability in a community setting compared to an acute or hospital setting? What challenges or obstacles have you encountered in the community, and can you share an example of how you navigated or overcame one of these challenges?

Experience:

• post registration: 5 years (Required)

Licence/Certification:

• AHPRA Nursing registration (Required)

Work Authorisation:

• Australia (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 50% (Preferred)

Work Location: On the road