Wattletree Health Group provides exceptional home nursing services in Smiths Gully (postcode 3760), a small rural locality in Melbourne’s outer north-east within the Nillumbik Shire, about 35km north-east of Melbourne’s CBD. Our experienced, AHPRA-registered nurses support clients in Smiths Gully and neighbouring Christmas Hills, Diamond Creek, Watsons Creek and Kangaroo Ground, whether the need is short-term after a hospital stay or ongoing, long-term clinical care.
Smiths Gully is a small rural locality in the Nillumbik Shire, set in the green wedge landscape between Diamond Creek and the Christmas Hills ranges, where native bushland, hobby farms and acreage properties create a genuinely rural character within reach of Melbourne’s northern suburbs. The locality sits in gully country — the undulating terrain of creek gullies and ridgelines that typifies the Nillumbik landscape — with Diamond Creek and its tributaries flowing through native vegetation corridors that support excellent birdlife, echidnas, lizards and local wildlife. The Nillumbik Shire, known as Melbourne’s “Green Wedge” shire, has actively protected the rural and environmental values of the area from suburban encroachment, and localities like Smiths Gully retain a sense of genuine countryside despite their proximity to Melbourne. Diamond Creek township — with its shopping centre, medical facilities, schools and train station on the Hurstbridge line — provides the nearest full range of services for residents. Receiving care at home in Smiths Gully means staying in this peaceful green wedge locality, close to family and the natural landscape. 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 Smiths Gully and the wider area, and discover the Wattletree Way.
Wattletree Health Group — exceptional home nursing services in Smiths Gully, postcode 3760.