Wattletree Health Group provides exceptional home nursing services near La Trobe University (postcode 3083), in the Bundoora area within the City of Banyule, about 15km north-east of Melbourne’s CBD. Our experienced, AHPRA-registered nurses support clients in the La Trobe University precinct and neighbouring Bundoora, Heidelberg West, Macleod and Thomastown, whether the need is short-term after a hospital stay or ongoing, long-term clinical care.
La Trobe University’s Bundoora campus is one of Melbourne’s most significant university and health precincts, set across a sprawling bushland campus in Melbourne’s north-east. The campus is home to La Trobe University’s main Victorian campus and is closely associated with the Austin Hospital and Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre at Heidelberg — one of Melbourne’s major academic medical hubs. The Bundoora campus’s extensive wildlife reserves and Moat wetlands are extraordinary natural assets within a working university, supporting significant native vegetation and birdlife reserves that have been carefully maintained over decades. La Trobe University Wildlife Sanctuary on campus is home to a resident mob of eastern grey kangaroos — a remarkable sight for students and visitors. The nearby Plenty Road and Lower Plenty Road corridors connect Bundoora to Heidelberg’s hospital and retail precinct and to Greensborough in the north-east. Macleod and Bundoora stations on the Hurstbridge and South Morang lines provide rail connections to the city. Receiving care at home here means staying close to community, familiar surroundings, and everyday routine. 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 near La Trobe University and the wider area, and discover the Wattletree Way.
Wattletree Health Group — exceptional home nursing services near La Trobe University, postcode 3083.