We’re a Māori/Polynesian family based on the Gold Coast looking for the right registered nurse (RN) or enrolled nurse (EN) to join our son’s dedicated long-term home care team.
We’re particularly keen to connect with nurses already living in Australia, planning the move across the ditch, or looking for an opportunity to build a life on the Gold Coast.
About our son
Our son sustained a significant acquired brain injury at birth and now lives with profound neurological and medical complexity.
His treating consultant paediatrician has described his care requirements as being equivalent to high-dependency nursing care within the home environment.
Over many years, we’ve worked alongside Queensland’s tertiary paediatric services and a multidisciplinary clinical team to develop a participant-specific model of care centred around continuity, consistency, trust and collaborative practice.
We’re proud of the team we’ve built.
Now we’re looking for the right person to grow with us.
Why this role Is different
This isn’t traditional community nursing where you’re travelling between multiple participants. You’ll work exclusively with one child as part of an established, deliberately small care team.
Over time, you’ll develop a detailed understanding of our son’s individual presentation, recognise subtle clinical changes and build genuine participant-specific expertise.
For us, continuity matters.
We want nurses who genuinely enjoy getting to know the person behind the diagnosis and becoming part of something long term.
What does the care involve?
Our son’s care includes:
- Airway assessment and secretion management
- Suctioning and respiratory support
- Medication administration
- Transpyloric feeding
- Seizure recognition and emergency management
- Clinical observations and recognition of deterioration
- Positioning and pressure care
- Manual handling and hoist transfers
- Overnight clinical monitoring
- Infection-control practices
- Clinical documentation and team communication
Because our son cannot verbally communicate pain, discomfort or deterioration, careful observation and learning his individual baseline are extremely important.
Never worked in complex paediatrics?
Don’t automatically rule yourself out.
Previous paediatric, disability or high-dependency experience is highly regarded, but we’re also interested in nurses with a strong clinical foundation, the right character and a genuine willingness to learn.
Successful applicants undertake structured participant-specific:
Orientation → Shadowing → Training → Supervised Practice → Competency Development → Independent Practice.
You’ll work alongside experienced team members while learning our son’s established care model.
We don’t expect you to know our son on day one.
We expect you to be willing to learn him.
Who are we looking for?
Qualifications matter, but after years of building our son’s team we’ve learned that character matters just as much.
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Reliable
- Honest
- Consistent
- Accountable
- Professional
- Calm under pressure
- Curious and willing to learn
- Comfortable asking questions
- Able to receive feedback professionally
- Team-oriented
- Interested in long-term continuity rather than simply picking up occasional shifts
Trust and consistency sit above everything else for our family.
We’re a small team. Every person matters, and every person is depended upon.
Essential requirements
You must have:
- Current AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) registration as an RN or EN, or be eligible to obtain the required Australian registration before commencing.
- Current First Aid and CPR.
- Australian working rights.
- Current driver’s licence.
- Ability to participate in a rotating roster, including overnight shifts.
Experience in paediatrics, complex disability, respiratory support, airway/secretion management, enteral feeding, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, high-dependency nursing or one-to-one care is highly regarded.
Get in touch
Please email your CV and a short cover letter to: [email protected]
In your cover letter, we’d particularly like you to answer in your own words
- What do consistency, professionalism and reliability mean to you?
- How long did you remain in each of your last three positions, and what influenced your decision to move on?
You don’t need to write us the perfect corporate cover letter. We’d much rather hear your genuine story, experience and reasons for wanting to join our son’s team.
If you’re a Kiwi nurse looking at making the move to Australia, already living on the Gold Coast, or know someone who could be the right fit, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re not trying to build the biggest team.
We’re trying to build the right team.
One Child • One Whānau • One Purpose
$120,000+ per year based on experience & roster.
Bradley (last name withheld by request),
Gold Coast, Australia