Nurse Educator

Nurse Educator

Company: Cultura Location: Geelong Work Type: Part-time (15 hours per week, with flexibility) Salary: $59.91 per hour + Salary Packaging Work Setting: Onsite

Cultura is seeking a Nurse Educator to oversee, manage, and document in-service education, formal training programs, and other educational sessions as required. This role is crucial in enabling Cultura Residential to deliver high-quality care and services to its residents and home care consumers. Responsibilities include the induction and orientation of new staff to organisational policies, procedures, and relevant skill sets, which encompasses an introduction to Work Health and Safety.

Duties:

• Collaborate with managers and staff, individually and collectively, to identify education requirements within Residential services.
• Develop user-friendly practices for maintaining existing and initiating new partnerships with education and training organisations.
• Clearly document education and/or training undertaken by individual staff using prescribed systems.
• Facilitate students and trainees attending for placement as part of their formal course of training.
• Understand, comply with, and ensure staff compliance with essential legislation and policies.
• Identify and support staff emotional needs by working with managers, staff, and volunteers.
• Ensure education and training records are available to authorised assessors and meet any reasonable requests.
• Initiate, manage, organise, record, and evaluate the organisation’s annual mandatory in-service education program for all Residential staff, including Bella Chara.
• Organise and deliver additional practical education sessions and workshops for groups.
• Deliver snack/toolbox education sessions for residential staff.
• Foster a positive work culture that promotes ownership, commitment to best practice principles in service delivery, and where all staff support each other respectfully and courteously.
• Contribute to monitoring professional practice and reviewing educational needs for individuals within the organisation’s continuous improvement framework, including regular data collection to identify skills gaps.
• Participate in program budgeting, as required.
• Ensure sufficient supplies and equipment are available to facilitate training.
• Ensure that a culture of dignity, privacy, and confidentiality is maintained at all times.
• Ensure staff and volunteers for whom English is not the first language have equitable access to education and training.
• Participate in and encourage all staff and volunteers to attend required professional development activities to maintain and improve their skills.
• Assist managers to access external training opportunities that will help staff manage any allocated portfolios of responsibility.
• Review and update policies and procedures.
• Deliver Basic Life Support annual competency to Cultura staff.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Essential:
• A relevant Bachelor qualification in Nursing and AHPRA registration.
• A Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment (or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience educating in an aged care and/or hospital setting.
• Demonstrated ability to network effectively with education and training service providers.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including computer literacy (keyboard skills, ability to learn new software programs, effective internet usage).
• Desirable:
• Relevant post-graduate qualifications in nursing, gerontology, education, or a related field.
• Recent experience in, and awareness of, contemporary issues in residential and home services aged care and care of individuals with dementia.
• Understanding of education and training incentives/schemes relevant to workers in the aged care industry.
• COVID-19 vaccination within the last six months.
• Understanding of the migrant experience, with empathy and sensitivity to the needs of the elderly from different cultural backgrounds, and staff of different cultural backgrounds.
• Proficiency in languages other than English will be highly regarded.

How to Apply:

Respond to the application questions and submit your resume after reviewing the position description. Applications close on Wednesday, 15 July 2026, at 5:00 pm. For further information, please contact careers@cultura.org.au.

Employment may be subject to the satisfactory completion of a Police Criminal Record Check, NDIS Worker Screening Check, and Pre-Employment Health Declaration. Cultura will cover the costs of these checks upon commencement of employment.

Cultura welcomes applications from all diverse backgrounds, including individuals who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTIQ+, and individuals with disabilities or culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.