Registered Nurse: Community SIL and Oversight

About the role

Empowering Connection is a registered NDIS provider on the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. We were founded on lived and family experience of disability — and that shapes everything about how we work.

We are seeking a Registered Nurse to join our team in a specialist clinical oversight role, supporting a participant with high-complexity care needs in a Supported Independent Living (SIL) and community setting.

This is a casual position combining direct clinical oversight responsibilities with a small number of hands-on support shifts. You will serve as the clinical governance lead for a dedicated support team — ensuring all High Intensity Daily Activities (HIDPA) are delivered safely, competently, and in line with NDIS Practice Standards.

Our mission is to empower individuals to connect and thrive — living the life they choose. If you share that purpose, we want to hear from you.

What you’ll do

• Provide clinical oversight and governance for a participant with complex health, mobility and medication support needs
• Deliver and document competency training and sign-off for support workers across all HIDPA tasks — including rescue buccal/IM administration, SZEP protocol, complex feeding and positioning, bowel management, skin integrity monitoring, and compression/lymphoedema pump operation
• Develop, review and maintain HIDPA Care Plans, Mealtime Management Plans and nursing documentation in line with NDIS Practice Standards for High Intensity Supports
• Oversee a complex polypharmacy profile including medication reconciliation and administration records
• Provide clinical direction for manual handling sign-off
• Liaise with allied health, treating GP, specialists and families as the clinical point of contact
• Support incident escalation, clinical incident reviews and mandatory NDIS reporting
• Complete contemporaneous clinical documentation in ShiftCare
• Participate in a small number of direct support shifts alongside the team

What you’ll bring

• Current AHPRA registration as Registered Nurse — no conditions or undertakings
• Experience in community, disability, or aged care nursing
• Demonstrated competency in High Intensity Daily Activities (HIDPA) or High Complexity Personal Activities (HCPA)
• Complex medication management experience
• Competency in enteral and modified texture feeding support
• Manual handling and complex transfer experience
• Confidence delivering hands-on staff training and formal competency sign-off
• Strong clinical documentation skills
• NDIS Worker Screening Clearance (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)
• Current First Aid and CPR (HLTAID011 or equivalent)

Desirable

• Experience with lymphoedema and compression therapy
• Epilepsy emergency protocol (SZEP) experience
• Familiarity with NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission standards
• Experience in SIL or 24/7 community support environments
• Post-graduate qualifications in disability or community nursing

Why join us

• Values-driven culture — respect, kindness, choice, inclusion and excellence guide everything we do
• Small team where your clinical voice genuinely shapes how we operate
• Meaningful, high-impact work with real professional autonomy
• Opportunity to help build EC’s clinical governance framework as we grow across South Australia
• EAP support
• Competitive casual rates commensurate with experience

Conditions of employment

• NDIS Worker Screening Clearance — mandatory prior to commencement
• Current AHPRA registration as Registered Nurse, no conditions
• Working with Children Check (WWCC) — South Australia
• Current First Aid and CPR
• Right to work in Australia