Registered Nurse Agency for Aged Care
When your roster is short a registered nurse, everything else gets harder. Chris Barnard Nursing Agency supplies experienced, qualified registered nurses to aged care homes across Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales, so your residents keep receiving safe, quality care and your team isn’t left stretched. We’ve been a trusted registered nurse agency since 2010. From a single night shift to a month of block bookings, we’ll help you fill shifts with nurses who know aged care and arrive ready to work.
A nursing agency that understands aged care
Aged care is our focus. Our agency nurses are used to busy residential aged care settings, complex clinical needs and the realities of handover at 7am. They step in calmly, work alongside your existing staff and keep resident safety front of mind.
As part of Chris Barnard Health, our nursing agency is backed by an ISO 9001 certified quality system and a dedicated aged care allocations team. You’ll always speak to a real person who knows your facility.
When aged care providers call us
Most aged care providers come to us when something unexpected happens. Others use our agency nursing service to keep their rosters steady all year round. We regularly cover:
- Staff absences, including sick leave and annual leave
- Roster gaps on night shifts, weekends and public holidays
- Short notice cover when a resident’s needs change
- Ongoing staff shortages while you recruit permanent staff
Flexible staffing solutions
Every residential care home runs differently, so our staffing solutions are flexible. Choose the kind of support that suits your rosters and budget.
What our registered nurses do
Our RNs provide the full range of clinical care expected of a registered nurse in residential aged care, including:
- Clinical assessment, care planning and monitoring of residents
- Medication management and administration
- Wound care and pain management
- Dementia care and supporting residents with changed behaviours
- Palliative care and end-of-life support
- Leading and supporting enrolled nurses and personal care workers
- Clear clinical documentation and handover to the next shift
Above all, they deliver person centred care. That means respecting each resident’s preferences and treating older people with dignity, so they feel known, not just cared for.
Supporting your 24/7 registered nurse requirement
Under current rules, residential aged care homes must have a registered nurse on site and on duty 24 hours a day. When an RN calls in sick overnight, the 24/7 registered nurse obligation doesn’t pause.
Our agency nurses help you meet it, and help protect your care minutes, so residents keep receiving the direct care and clinical care they need. Every RN we place contributes to registered nurse care minutes while they’re on shift.
Credentialing and compliance
Every registered nurse goes through our nursing agency credentialing process before their first shift, so you can be confident they’re qualified and ready for your facility.
Orientation and continuity of care
Before a first shift, each nurse receives an orientation brief covering your facility, systems and key resident needs. Where we can, we send the same registered nurses back, building continuity of care and trust with your residents and staff, so agency staff settle in quickly. If a nurse isn’t the right fit, tell us and we’ll change it.
Where we work
We supply registered nurses across Victoria, including metropolitan Melbourne and regional areas, throughout Tasmania, including Hobart, and across New South Wales, including Sydney. Our head office is at 508 Waverley Road, Malvern East.
Whether you run a small regional residential care home or a large metropolitan group, our registered nurse agency gives you access to experienced registered nurses who are ready to step in. We work with aged care facilities and aged care homes of every size and give you the support you need from the very first call.
How to Request a Nurse
- Call 1300 602 469 or book online, telling us the shifts, location and skills you need.
- We match an experienced RN from our workforce and confirm the booking.
- Your nurse arrives oriented and ready to work, and we follow up after the shift.
For urgent requests, call our allocations team directly. We’re used to filling shifts at short notice.
Why aged care providers partner with us
- Aged care specialists: our healthcare professionals know aged care inside out
- Our own workforce: one of the largest in-house care workforces in Victoria
- Real people: a reliable allocations team that answers the phone
- Quality you can trust: multi-award-winning and ISO 9001 certified, with compliance built in
Choosing a nurse agency is about trust. Our agency nurses are carefully screened, well supported and committed to the residents they care for, which is why so many providers book with our nursing agency again and again.
We see ourselves as a partner to every facility manager and director of nursing we work with, not just a supplier of agency staff.
Are you a registered nurse? Register with us
Looking for flexible agency nursing work in aged care? Join our workforce of healthcare professionals and choose shifts that fit your life, doing work that makes a real difference to older people. We’ll support you with orientation, ongoing training in communication, cultural awareness and best practice, and people who value your skills. Register with us today.
Frequently asked questions
Need a Registered Nurse?
Talk to the Chris Barnard Health team about registered nurses for your facility. Call 1300 602 469 or request a nurse online, and we’ll help you keep quality care on every shift.
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