Hospital in the Home - Visiting Nurse Grade 3

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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and  research across three campuses in the Northeast of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About Hospital in the Home & Virtual Care

The Hospital in the Home & Virtual Care program facilitates the shift of traditional acute care to the patient’s own home without compromising patient care. This care may take place via in-home nursing and support services, via video telehealth or via admission to the Hospital in the Home – Virtual Care, where higher acuity care can be provided in part through the utilisation of wearable technology. Hospital in the home is a supportive team, working collaboratively to ensure that people can have their care in the right place.

About the role

The HITH Visiting Nurse (Grade 3- YU15) provides high quality, evidenced based care to clients in a community setting. They can assess, treat, and escalate in the case of deterioration appropriately while managing the care of multiple patients independently. This person will be able to work collaboratively with the team in the provision of complex care in the home setting.      

They are able to assist with the facilitation of telemedicine reviews & virtual care and are able to communicate clinical information from the home to the care team in a highly effective way.      

A regular day will see you:

• Driving to visit admitted patients in their own home
• Conducting a wide range of care - from administration of IV medications via a PICC, assessing and treating people with heart failure, complex wound management, and assisting with virtual reviews.
• Assessing for deterioration at home, escalating to the case management and HITH medical teams to adjust treatment plans or handover for readmission
• Supporting discharge to the community beyond the HITH admission

About you

As the HITH Visiting Nurse, you will be someone who has excellent communication skills, with a strong commitment to excellence in patient care. You’ll bring energy and drive to your work, and have a keen interest in developing your skillset.

To be successful in this role, you'll bring with you:

• Excellent clinical assessment skills and experience, able to make decisions and escalate as needed
• A flexible approach - this role is growing and changing, with a broad range of skills required and new care types being added all the time. 
• An enjoyment for working independently, with the backing of a supportive team. 
• A comfort with using technology - you will be documenting on a number of clinical systems, and supporting patients under the Virtual model as needed.

Hospital in the Home & Virtual Care is a growing service finding innovative ways to support people to access acute admitted care from their own home. If you love working autonomously, but in a supportive team, are flexible and enjoy variation in your work day, and have excellent decision making and assessment skills - this might be the next step in your nursing career!

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:

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
• Mentoring and career development opportunities
• Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport and car parking

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. 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, Angela Sullivan at Angela.Sullivan@austin.org.au.

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.

Application closing date: Monday 7 April 2025