Work Type: Fixed-term - Part-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Medicine, nursing and midwifery
Location: Melbourne - Northern suburbs
Reference: 4057
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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About Residential InReach (RIR) Team
The Residential InReach (RIR) team is dedicated to delivering the highest standard of person-centered care to our patients. The team is composed of clinical nurse consultants, aged care advance trainees, and geriatricians who provide rapid response services to residents within residential aged care homes (RACH). Their goal is to optimise residents' health and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.
About the role
As the clinical nurse consultant in the RIR team, you will be responsible for delivering evidence based expert advice and clinical support for residents within aged care homes to optimise patient outcomes and minimise presentations into the emergency departments.
A regular day will involve you:
About you
As the RIR CNC, you will be someone with a high level of assessment skills, excellent communication skills, with a strong commitment to excellence in acute patient care.
You’ll further have:
Our benefits
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
Work with us!
We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Cath Byrne, Nurse Unit Manager at [email protected].
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: 1 October 2025