Enrolled nursing jobs in Melbourne

Sanctuary Recruitment is an aged care recruitment consultancy that specialise in providing recruitment services for professionals within the aged care sector. Through our extensive and well connected network across Australia, we are able to assist with any recruitment and career needs that you have and employ staff on a temporary, contract and permanent basis.

We are actively hiring enrolled nurses in Melbourne, into regional Victoria and across Australia. If you are interested in developing your career in aged care, are looking to break into the aged care market or need solutions to staff shortages please get in contact with us today.

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Enrolled nurse jobs in Melbourne FAQs

Enrolled nurses are part of a clinical team that are on the frontline, delivering essential medical care to patients and residents. Their duties and responsibilities extend further than a care worker, but are lesser than of a registered nurse.

 

Through our commitment to the aged care industry, we have work available across the country in a variety of homes.

Get in touch if you are open for opportunities in Melbourne, across Victoria in:

  • Ballarat
  • Bendigo
  • Chirnside Park
  • Clayton
  • Geelong
  • Mildura
  • Ringwood
  • Wodonga

Enrolled nurses are paid by the Aged Care and Nurses Award. These are dependent on your experience, location, job title and work setting. The average enrolled nurse casual pay rates are between $31 - $76 per hour.

Contract assignments allow you to earn bonuses, incentives and allowances depending on the placement. According to the aged care reform roadmap, more changes are coming, alongside the 2023 aged care pay rise to increase workforce retention and attraction.

As a rule of thumb, our enrolled nurses need a minimum of 6 months Australian aged care experience for our metro and casual enrolled nurse pool. Get in touch today if you sit under this, as some of our clients accept new grads.

Enrolled nurses are required to have obtained a Diploma of Nursing, and to be AHPRA registered.

You can work as an enrolled nurse on both a temporary/casual and contract basis. You have the option to gap fill last minute cancellations or sick calls, as well as block book yourself for full time hours in a location across the country for 4 - 12 weeks.

We have a Learning Management System (LMS) that gives you access to modules that educate and refresh your knowledge, ready for work. This is regularly updated to reflect legislation and is role specific, at no cost to you.

Short term and ad-hoc work allows you to:

  • Determine your own work day/week
  • See various areas of the country whilst getting paid for it, with free travel and accommodation included.
  • Set a work/life balance that works for you
  • Receive a higher hourly rate that changes depending on the shifts that you work

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