Registered Nurse – Aged Care Clinical Governance & Care Management
Position: Registered Nurse – Aged Care
Employment Type: Part-Time / Full-Time / Contract
Location: Victoria – Home & Community Care
Reports To: General Manager / Clinical Governance Lead
Salary: Negotiable based on qualifications and experience
About the Organisation
We are a growing registered aged care provider delivering high-quality, person-centred care to older Australians in their homes and communities.
Our organisation is committed to providing safe, respectful and clinically appropriate services that support older people to remain independent, healthy and connected to their communities.
As our aged care services expand, we are seeking an experienced Registered Nurse with strong aged care clinical leadership and governance experience to join our team.
This is a key clinical position with responsibility for supporting the organisation's clinical governance framework, overseeing clinical care, developing and reviewing care plans, managing clinical risks and supporting our workforce to deliver safe and high-quality care.
The successful candidate will ideally have experience working within CHSP, Support at Home, Home Care Packages or similar government-funded aged care programs.
About the Role
The Registered Nurse will provide clinical leadership across our home and community aged care services.
The role will involve a combination of:
- Clinical assessment and care planning
- Comprehensive nursing assessments
- Clinical care and monitoring
- Care coordination
- Clinical risk management
- Clinical governance
- Quality assurance
- Incident and clinical event management
- Staff supervision and clinical support
- Competency assessment
- Policy and procedure development
- Continuous improvement
- Liaison with GPs, allied health professionals, hospitals and other healthcare providers
- Support for the organisation's compliance with aged care legislation, standards and program requirements
The successful candidate will be expected to take an active role in developing and maintaining a strong clinical governance culture across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities1. Clinical Assessment & Care Planning
- Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments of older people receiving services.
- Identify clinical, functional, psychosocial and environmental risks.
- Develop, implement and regularly review individualised care plans.
- Develop clinical management plans where required.
- Monitor changes in health and functional status.
- Identify deterioration and escalate concerns appropriately.
- Coordinate referrals to GPs, specialists, allied health professionals and other healthcare services.
- Support hospital discharge and transition-of-care processes.
- Ensure care plans reflect the person's goals, preferences, needs and identified risks.
- Ensure care is delivered within the appropriate clinical scope of practice.
2. Clinical Governance
Take a leading role in maintaining and improving the organisation's clinical governance framework.
Responsibilities include:
- Implementing and monitoring clinical governance systems.
- Identifying and managing clinical risks.
- Monitoring clinical quality and outcomes.
- Reviewing clinical incidents and adverse events.
- Identifying trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Providing clinical reports to management and the governing body.
- Supporting evidence-based clinical practice.
- Reviewing clinical policies, procedures and protocols.
- Monitoring compliance with clinical requirements.
- Supporting continuous quality improvement initiatives.
- Participating in internal audits and quality reviews.
- Maintaining appropriate clinical documentation and records.
Clinical governance should be integrated into the organisation's broader corporate governance framework, consistent with the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission's expectations.
3. Clinical Risk Management
The RN will assist in identifying, assessing and managing clinical risks, including:
- Falls
- Medication management
- Pressure injuries
- Nutrition and hydration
- Continence
- Wound care
- Infection prevention and control
- Deteriorating health
- Hospitalisation
- Chronic disease management
- Manual handling risks
- Cognitive impairment
- Dementia-related risks
- Palliative and end-of-life care
- Emergency situations
- Safeguarding and suspected abuse
- Other risks identified through clinical assessment
4. Incident Management
- Review and assess clinical incidents.
- Provide clinical advice following incidents.
- Ensure appropriate escalation and reporting.
- Participate in incident investigations and root-cause analysis where required.
- Identify corrective and preventative actions.
- Monitor implementation of corrective actions.
- Identify trends in incidents and report these to management.
- Assist with continuous improvement arising from incident data.
5. Staff Clinical Support & Leadership
- Provide clinical advice and guidance to support workers and care staff.
- Provide clinical education and mentoring.
- Assist with induction and orientation of clinical and care staff.
- Develop and monitor clinical competencies.
- Conduct or coordinate competency assessments.
- Identify staff training requirements.
- Ensure workers understand their scope of practice.
- Support staff to safely manage complex care needs.
- Escalate concerns regarding staff competency or clinical practice.
The Commission expects providers to have systems for verifying qualifications, registrations, training and experience and ensuring clinical workers work within their defined scope of practice.
6. Medication Management
- Review medication management arrangements.
- Support medication risk assessments.
- Review medication incidents.
- Liaise with GPs, pharmacists and other health professionals.
- Monitor compliance with medication-related policies and procedures.
- Support staff education and competency relating to medication assistance.
- Identify and escalate medication-related risks.
7. Care Management & Coordination
- Support the delivery of person-centred care.
- Monitor participant/consumer outcomes.
- Coordinate services across multiple providers where appropriate.
- Maintain communication with families, carers and nominated representatives.
- Liaise with hospitals, GPs and allied health professionals.
- Participate in case conferences.
- Support transitions between hospital, home and other care environments.
- Ensure relevant clinical information is appropriately documented and communicated.
8. Quality Improvement
- Participate in quality improvement projects.
- Develop clinical quality indicators.
- Review clinical trends and performance data.
- Analyse complaints, incidents and feedback from a clinical perspective.
- Recommend improvements to clinical systems.
- Assist with internal audits.
- Monitor implementation of improvement actions.
- Promote evidence-based practice.
9. Policy & Procedure Development
Assist management with the development, review and implementation of:
- Clinical governance framework
- Clinical risk management policy
- Medication management policy
- Wound management procedures
- Falls prevention and management procedures
- Infection prevention and control procedures
- Deteriorating health escalation procedure
- Clinical incident management procedure
- Care planning procedures
- Assessment procedures
- Palliative care procedures
- Continence management procedures
- Nutrition and hydration procedures
- Hospital discharge and transition procedures
- Clinical documentation standards
- Delegation and scope-of-practice procedures
- Clinical competency frameworks
10. Regulatory & Compliance Responsibilities
The RN will assist the organisation to maintain compliance with relevant:
- Aged Care Act 2024
- Aged Care Rules
- Aged Care Quality Standards
- Support at Home requirements
- Commonwealth Home Support Program requirements where applicable
- Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission requirements
- Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency requirements
- Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia requirements
- Relevant state and federal legislation
- Infection prevention and control requirements
- Work health and safety requirements
- Privacy and information management requirements
Support at Home providers must meet their obligations under the aged care legislation and are subject to oversight and assurance arrangements.
Essential Selection Criteria
The successful applicant must have:
- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA.
- Minimum 5 years' post-registration nursing experience.
- Minimum 5 years' experience in aged care, preferably predominantly in community/home care.
- Demonstrated experience in clinical leadership, clinical governance or senior nursing responsibilities.
- Strong understanding of person-centred aged care.
- Demonstrated experience undertaking comprehensive clinical assessments.
- Demonstrated experience developing and reviewing care plans.
- Strong clinical documentation skills.
- Experience in clinical risk management.
- Experience managing and reviewing clinical incidents.
- Understanding of medication management.
- Strong understanding of scope of practice and clinical delegation.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and make appropriate clinical decisions.
- Ability to work collaboratively with GPs, allied health professionals, hospitals, families and care workers.
- Strong understanding of privacy, confidentiality and professional boundaries.
- Commitment to evidence-based practice and continuous improvement.
Highly Desirable Experience
Preference will be given to candidates with experience in:
- Support at Home
- Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP)
- Home Care Packages (HCP)
- Community nursing
- Home and community aged care
- Aged care care management
- Complex care coordination
- Clinical governance
- Clinical auditing
- Quality improvement
- Accreditation and regulatory audits
- Aged care compliance
- Palliative care
- Dementia care
- Chronic disease management
- Wound management
- Medication management
- Falls prevention
- Hospital discharge planning
- Multidisciplinary case conferencing
Note: Experience in Support at Home is particularly desirable given the current aged care environment. Support at Home commenced on 1 November 2025, while CHSP remains in transition and is expected to move to Support at Home no earlier than 1 July 2027.
Clinical Leadership & Governance Experience
This is a key requirement of the position.
The ideal candidate will have previously held positions such as:
- Clinical Nurse
- Clinical Nurse Manager
- Clinical Care Manager
- Care Manager
- Clinical Governance Manager
- Quality & Clinical Manager
- Senior Registered Nurse
- Community Nurse Team Leader
- Aged Care Clinical Lead
- Nurse Unit Manager
- Clinical Coordinator
Experience should demonstrate responsibility for leading, monitoring or improving clinical systems, rather than solely providing direct nursing care.
The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate experience with:
- Clinical governance frameworks
- Clinical audits
- Quality improvement
- Risk registers
- Incident investigation
- Clinical incident trend analysis
- Clinical policies and procedures
- Staff competency assessment
- Clinical supervision
- Clinical documentation audits
- Care plan audits
- Medication audits
- Falls monitoring
- Wound monitoring
- Infection control
- Deteriorating client escalation
- Clinical reporting to management
- Regulatory compliance
- Accreditation preparation
- Continuous improvement programs
Mandatory Documents & Credentials
Applicants will be required to provide evidence of the following before commencement:
- Current AHPRA Registered Nurse registration
- Evidence of Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent qualification
- Current resume/CV
- Evidence of minimum 5 years nursing experience
- Evidence of aged care experience
- Evidence of clinical leadership/governance experience
- Professional indemnity insurance, where applicable
- Current Police Check
- Current Working with Children Check, if applicable to the role
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, if the role involves NDIS services
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Immunisation/vaccination records where required by organisational policy or role requirements
- Evidence of relevant clinical training and competency
- Two professional referees, preferably including a previous clinical manager
- Evidence of Australian work rights
All qualifications, registration, experience and clinical credentials will be verified as part of the recruitment process.
Desirable Additional Qualifications & Training
The following would be highly regarded:
- Graduate Certificate/Diploma in Gerontology
- Graduate Certificate/Diploma in Aged Care
- Graduate Certificate/Diploma in Clinical Leadership
- Graduate Certificate/Diploma in Health Management
- Clinical Governance qualification
- Wound care certification
- Palliative care training
- Dementia care training
- Medication management training
- Infection prevention and control training
- Continence management training
- Chronic disease management experience
- Advanced clinical assessment training
- Quality improvement/auditing qualifications
Key Performance Indicators
Performance will be assessed against agreed clinical and organisational KPIs, including:
- Quality and completeness of clinical assessments.
- Timeliness and quality of care plans.
- Clinical documentation compliance.
- Clinical incident management and follow-up.
- Clinical risk identification and mitigation.
- Medication management compliance.
- Clinical audit outcomes.
- Staff competency and training compliance.
- Quality improvement activities.
- Consumer/participant clinical outcomes.
- Compliance with organisational policies and procedures.
- Regulatory and aged care compliance.
- Effectiveness of clinical governance reporting.
- Feedback from consumers, families, staff and health professionals.
Personal Attributes
We are seeking a Registered Nurse who is:
- Clinically confident
- Professional and accountable
- Compassionate and person-centred
- Highly organised
- Strong in clinical decision-making
- Detail-oriented
- An excellent communicator
- Comfortable working autonomously
- Confident providing clinical leadership
- Comfortable challenging unsafe clinical practices
- Committed to continuous improvement
- Strong in documentation and compliance
- Able to build positive relationships with older people, families and healthcare professionals
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity for an experienced aged care Registered Nurse to take on a senior clinical leadership role within a growing home and community aged care organisation.
The successful candidate will have an opportunity to help develop and strengthen our clinical governance systems, influence quality and clinical practice, mentor staff and contribute to the delivery of high-quality care to older Australians.
If you are an experienced Registered Nurse with strong aged care and clinical governance experience and are looking for a role where your clinical expertise can have a genuine organisational impact, we would like to hear from you.
Pay: $40.00 – $80.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
