Wattletree Health Group provides exceptional home nursing services in Cottles Bridge (postcode 3099), a small rural locality in Melbourne’s outer north-east within the Nillumbik Shire, about 40km north-east of Melbourne’s CBD. Our experienced, AHPRA-registered nurses support clients in Cottles Bridge and neighbouring St Andrews, Arthurs Creek, Nutfield and Panton Hill, whether the need is short-term after a hospital stay or ongoing, long-term clinical care.
Cottles Bridge is a small rural locality in the Nillumbik Shire, named after the bridge that crosses Arthurs Creek near the old township site — a reminder of the road and bridge infrastructure that shaped early settlement patterns across the Nillumbik plateau. The locality sits in the broad valley of the Arthurs Creek and its tributaries, in a landscape of farming paddocks, stringybark bush, rock outcrops and remnant native vegetation that has been protected from urban development by the Nillumbik Shire’s longstanding green wedge planning policy. The nearby St Andrews community is famous across Victoria for its beloved Saturday alternative market — one of the oldest and most authentic community markets in Australia, drawing thousands of visitors each week for handcrafted goods, organic produce, music and community culture. The Arthurs Creek corridor and the broader Nillumbik green wedge provide important ecological links and outdoor recreational opportunities for residents and visitors alike. Receiving care at home in Cottles Bridge means staying in this peaceful Nillumbik locality, close to family and the quiet of the green wedge countryside. Wattletree Health Group‘s home nursing care is tailored to each client’s needs, helping reduce the need for hospital or GP visits while keeping care personal and consistent.
We work with all Support At Home (SAH) providers and can invoice home care packages directly. We’re registered NDIS providers, and approved providers for TAC and WorkSafe.
Referrals are simple and welcome from self-referral, family and friends, GPs, hospitals, My Aged Care Home Care Package (HCP) and Support At Home (SAH) providers, NDIS Support Coordinators, allied health professionals, and other healthcare organisations. Getting started is easy — simply complete our referral form.
Our nurses provide flexible, compassionate, and clinically competent care for children and adults needing:
- Wound care (VAC dressings, drain tubes, staple/suture removal, acute & chronic wounds)
- Wellbeing checks and general health assessments
- Illness and injury support
- Palliative care and symptom management
- End of life care (EOLC)
- After hospital discharge care
- Night & day respite for carers of family members with high care needs (adults and children)
- My Aged Care Home Care Package (HCP) and Support At Home (SAH) clinical nurse visits
- NDIS clinical nurse visits (we are registered NDIS providers)
- TAC nursing at home (we are approved TAC providers)
- WorkSafe nursing at home (we are approved WorkSafe providers)
- Private nursing (wholly self funded nursing, independent of other provider/government funding)
- Medication administration and management (tablets, injections, syringe drivers, IV infusions)
- Post surgery care
- Pain management
- Stoma care
- Continence assessments and continence management
- Catheter care and management (including suprapubic catheters [SPC], indwelling catheters [IDC] and trial of voids [TOV])
- Diabetic care and diabetes management
- Nursing assessments
- Cognitive assessments
- Showering and personal hygiene support
- Clinical transport and chaperone to medical appointments and community access
- Pathology collection
- Respiratory care (including home ventilation, tracheostomy care)
- Health system navigation and My Aged Care referral assistance
- Service provider and carer/worker training
- Travel/holiday support (local/interstate/overseas)
- Alternative & complementary therapies support (faecal microbial transplant enemas, IV vitamin infusions etc)
- Workplace flu vaccination services
- Health & wellness coaching
Need something not on this list? Have a look at our full range of services, or get in touch — we’re happy to help.
For more on how we work, see our services, or contact us to find out more about home nursing care in Cottles Bridge and the wider area, and discover the Wattletree Way.
Wattletree Health Group — exceptional home nursing services in Cottles Bridge, postcode 3099.