Registered Nurse - Community Palliative Care

Registered Nurse Grade 3 - Palliative Home Care

Part Time ongoing position

Malvern location

Cabrini offers.

Salary packaging up to $15,900 tax-free each year, plus $2650 meal & entertainment card benefits.

Rewarding career growth opportunities.

Attractive hourly rates + 12% Super + 17.5% leave loading.

Vibrant Malvern location, close to public transport.

The Unit

Cabrini is the largest provider of private cancer services in Australia. This fully integrated cancer service includes all sub specialities and provides rapid access to all services, treatments and specialists.

Cabrini provides a unique palliative model of care which includes the inpatient unit, community service, supportive care clinic, consult / liaison role. This comprehensive service ensures that a high level of palliative care is provided throughout the disease trajectory.

The Role

The Palliative Community Registered Nurse is responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of specialist palliative care to patients and their families within the home setting. Our goals focus on expert symptom management, end of life care in the location of choice (if appropriate) and supporting families within the community. This rewarding role is autonomous but also supported within the wider interdisciplinary team and all arms of the service.

Essential :

Current unrestricted AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse

Current Police Check

Victorian Working with Children Check

Current Victorian Drivers Licence

Experience in Palliative Care

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

The ability to work autonomously and within an interdisciplinary team

Desirable but not essential :

Post Graduate Qualification in Palliative Care or oncology

Community experience

Please view the full position description here

Enquiries should be directed to : Claire Scott - Nurse Manager Palliative Home Care at 03 9508 1325

• We encourage early applications, as we will start shortlisting and interviewing candidates as soon as applications are received

Does this sound like your new role? Bring your skills and enthusiasm to Cabrini Health and help optimise the patient experience and health outcomes for our community.

Cabrini Health acknowledges the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is core to our mission.

As part of our commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Working for Cabrini

Cabrini Health is a Catholic, private, for-purpose health service located in Melbourne’s southeast. Inspired by the mission and ethic of care of the Cabrini Sisters, providing quality, compassionate care to our community for more than 75 years.

There is something special about Cabrini Health. Our highly skilled staff and specialists incorporate clinical research, innovative models of care and state-of-the-art technology to deliver the best possible care and outcomes for our patients. We demonstrate our mission to serve our community through outreach programs that support asylum seekers, provide healthcare in rural communities and in underdeveloped countries.

Our size, reputation and growth strategy ensure genuine opportunities for our people to learn, grow and realise potential.

Our values : Compassion - Integrity - Courage - Respect

MANDATORY FOR ALL NEW STAFF TO CABRINI

Employment with Cabrini Health will be based on satisfactory background checks such as professional references, National Police Check, vaccinations for annual Influenza plus a Working with Children Check (WWCC) may also be requested. Vaccination for COVID-19 is highly recommended.