• 4 days per week, 52 hours per fortnight
• Location: 25 Bushlands Ave, Gordon, NSW, 2072
• Focus on Medication rounds
• Supportive Team, Competitive Pay, Ongoing Training

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Provide a leading role in clinical care to residents.
• Support Care Manager in providing information, advice, referral and direct support services to residents in meeting their identified care needs.
• Provides direction, support and guidance to team leaders to ensure their teams are effectively engaged in the delivery of person centred care to residents, and monitors activities against specific performance requirements.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Responsible for the medication rounds for the assigned section;
• Ensures safe medication management systems in line with legislative guidelines and standards;
• Provide support and mentoring to team members, and acts as a resource as required;
• Maintains efficient and effective documentation systems where required;
• Conducts care recipient assessments either as scheduled or when a change in care recipients health status indicates;
• Attends to complex wound procedures;
• Oversees care delivery to care recipients with complex and chronic health problems;
• Develops and evaluates care plans to improve care recipients care in consultation with care recipients and their representatives;
• Creates and maintains positive relationships with care recipients, colleagues and visitors;
• Maintain close observation daily on the condition and behaviour of the residents;
• Organise and attend medical practitioners’ or allied health professionals’ visits as required;
• Carry out and supervise the daily treatment for residents as ordered;
• Ensure all observations are carried out as scheduled or as when necessary and maintain in the records;
• Participate in continuous improvement activities in maintaining a high standard of care;
• Maintain optimal standard of care for all care recipients and take initiatives to attend to care recipients’ care needs with a supportive and respectful manner;
• Follow all administrative protocols as required.