Registered Nurse – Medical Unit

Nursing

Posted: 1 Mar 2024

Location: Sydney NSW

We are searching for a Registered Nurse to provide acute care within a medical unit of an organisation for individuals affected by alcohol and other drug dependencies.

Non­prof­it Organ­i­sa­tion for Addiction 

Com­pet­i­tive Pay Rates and NFP Salary Packaging
• Con­ve­nient Loca­tion: Just a one-hour dri­ve from Sydney’s City Centre
• Impact­ful Work: Join a team ded­i­cat­ed to mak­ing a difference

About the Role

This role requires a Reg­is­tered Nurse with a ver­sa­tile skill set and an under­stand­ing of men­tal health and addic­tion to join our med­ical unit. In this role, you will sup­port the health and med­ical needs of indi­vid­u­als fac­ing sub­stance abuse, addic­tion, and men­tal health chal­lenges. Respon­si­bil­i­ties include pro­vid­ing ad hoc care, assist­ing with pri­ma­ry health­care tasks, and offer­ing with­draw­al man­age­ment support.

This oppor­tu­ni­ty will require you to:
• Pro­vide essen­tial health­care sup­port to res­i­dents with­in the med­ical unit
• Deliv­er ad hoc care and col­lab­o­rate with GPs to admin­is­ter pri­ma­ry health services
• Offer with­draw­al man­age­ment sup­port at our inpa­tient med­ical unit

Ben­e­fits
• Com­pet­i­tive remu­ner­a­tion with addi­tion­al benefits
NFP salary pack­ag­ing available
• Employ­ee assis­tance programs
• Sup­port­ive work envi­ron­ment with oppor­tu­ni­ties for men­tor­ship and collaboration

Skills and Requirements
• Full AHPRA registration
• Com­plete rights to live and work in Australia
• Min­i­mum 3 years acute nurs­ing experience
• Demon­strat­ed abil­i­ty to adept­ly nav­i­gate the com­plex med­ical chal­lenges asso­ci­at­ed with alco­hol and drug dependencies
• Desir­able qual­i­fi­ca­tions include expe­ri­ence in one or more of the fol­low­ing: work­ing with peo­ple with AoD depen­den­cies, men­tal health nurs­ing, com­mu­ni­ty nurs­ing, or expe­ri­ence with­in a non-gov­ern­ment AoD treat­ment program

About Evolve
Since 2004, Evolve Tal­ent has been sup­port­ing spe­cial­ized tal­ent in con­nect­ing Aus­tralian busi­ness­es nation­wide. As an award-win­ning agency in 2022 and a cur­rent 2023 final­ist, Evolve Tal­ent is renowned and award­ed for its Can­di­date Expe­ri­ence’ and ser­vice deliv­ery across its five spe­cial­ized divi­sions, includ­ing Design & Con­struct, Health­care, Man­u­fac­tur­ing, Min­ing & Resources, and Safe­ty & Environment.

How to Apply
Please con­tact Aine on 0431070967 or Aine.​Waters@​evolvetalent.​com.​au for a con­fi­den­tial dis­cus­sion. Evolve Tal­ent is com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing equal oppor­tu­ni­ties for all. Abo­rig­i­nal and Tor­res Strait Islander Peo­ple are encour­aged to apply.