About us
For over 150 years, Anglicare Southern Queensland has been walking alongside Queenslanders, offering care, support, and dignity to those who need it most. By providing a range of support services, including aged care, foster care, family support, homelessness services, youth support and counselling, our mission is to make a lasting impact by fostering hope, independence, and inclusion.
At the heart of everything we do is a simple belief: everyone deserves to be treated with dignity, respect, and care. Join our team today, and make a difference today, tomorrow and together. Be where you’re needed. Belong right here.
The Role
We are seeking an accomplished and values-driven clinician to join us as Head of Clinical & Care Governance. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, ACS, this is a career-defining opportunity to lead meaningful change by strengthening and embedding an established Clinical & Care Governance Framework, ensuring it is consistently applied and continuously improved across all services, while driving excellence in safety, quality, and risk management.
The role is also pivotal in supporting the leadership team to deliver Anglicare’s strategic priorities, aligning care delivery with a rights-based approach and the expectations of older Australians, and directly influencing improved clinical outcomes, stronger governance, and the overall lived experience of care for the people we serve.
Your role in supporting Anglicare will include:
- Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the organisation's clinical governance framework with a focus on risk management, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure adherence to the Aged Care Quality Standards, Aged Care Act and all other relevant regulatory requirements.
- Oversee clinical policies clinical care policies, procedures, and protocols to ensure consistency, compliance and best practice.
- Foster a culture of safety, clinical excellence, accountability and continuous improvement in clinical services, ensuring alignment with organisational values and goals.
- Lead organisation‑wide incident management, ensuring timely reporting, effective investigation and translation learnings into practice improvements.
- Ensure compliance with Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) requirements and other regulatory requirements
- Liaise with regulatory bodies and manage organisational responses to compliance requirements.
About you
You are a senior clinical leader with deep expertise in governance, quality, and risk, with significant experience in aged care and in a senior clinical governance role. You have a proven track record of driving system-wide improvement, embedding accountability, strengthening frameworks, and delivering measurable outcomes aligned to strategic priorities and rights-based care. You lead with integrity and influence, and are resilient, decisive, and purpose-driven—focused on elevating safety, quality, and the experience of care at scale.
What you will bring to the role:
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.
- The ability to meet the requirements of a Responsible Person Check for the purposes of the Aged Care Act (2024)
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing or medical
- Current registration with AHPRA
- Postgraduate qualification in Quality, Risk Management, Governance, or related field (desirable)
- Current Queensland Driver Licence
- Senior management experience in clinical and/or care governance and quality improvement within the healthcare or human services sector
- Demonstrated success in leading quality assurance and accreditation programs that achieve sustainable compliance and continuous improvement outcomes in complex service environments.
- Strong working knowledge of clinical and care governance frameworks, relevant legislation and policy, and the ability to lead organisational responses to sector and government reform.
- Proven ability to analyse risk, performance, and quality issues across multidisciplinary services and implement effective, system-wide solutions.
Why you’ll love working with Anglicare Southern Queensland
- Voted Reader’s Digest Most Trusted Brand in Aged Care seven consecutive years in a row.
- Know your role is making a real difference supporting Queenslanders in need.
- Value-driven organisation rooted in Love, Care, Hope & Humility.
- Flexible Working Environment and work from home possibilities.
- Not for Profit Salary Packaging (Reduce your taxable income by up to $18,550).
- Novated Lease – pay for your car and running costs with pre-tax dollars!
- Corporate Health Insurance Discounts with Bupa and Medibank.
- Benefits App – discounts and cash back at retailers (Woollies, Big W, Myer & much more!).
- Referral App – $1 for each time you share job and up to $300 for a successful referral.
- Wellbeing App – Mental, Physical and Financial wellbeing support.
- JB HiFi Friends & Family Discount
- A culture of recognition with our Annual People Awards.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program & Pastoral Care Support.
Interested?
Click apply and send us your current resume.
For further information please contact [email protected]
Anglicare Southern Queensland is committed to the health and safety of our workforce. Shortlisted Applicants will be asked to complete a Pre-Employment Assessments that requests the sharing of information regarding pre-existing injuries, illnesses or conditions that could reasonably be aggravated by performing the duties of this position.
Anglicare is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, those from cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ communities, people with disabilities and people with a lived experience of mental ill health. We promote a child-safe environment and are committed to providing on-going care and protection.
