Clinical Manager | Blue Care | Bli Bli Aged Care Facility
Employment Term: Permanent Full Time
Location: Bli Bli Aged Care Facility
Remuneration: $68.95 - $70.43 per hour (Dependant on experience) + Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + Penalties & Allowances
Make a meaningful difference with BlueCare
We’re looking for someone who wants to build meaningful relationships and make a difference in the lives of others - through small moments that leave big impacts.
Your part in our BlueCare team
Working closely with your Residential Services Manager, you’ll provide visible, hands-on clinical leadership to deliver safe, high-quality, person-centred care. You’ll be accountable for driving clinical excellence across the service - supporting your team, strengthening governance and ensuring residents receive care that promotes dignity, independence and quality of life.
Provide day-to-day clinical leadership, ensuring care delivery aligns with best practice, legislation and quality standards
Lead, coach and mentor clinical and care teams, creating a capable, confident and high-performing workforce
Act as the escalation point for complex clinical issues, applying strong judgement and evidence-based decision-making
Oversee comprehensive clinical assessments and care planning, ensuring care is responsive to individual needs and goals
Drive clinical governance and risk management, including proactive management of key risks such as falls, wounds and infection control
Ensure accurate, timely documentation and compliance with internal processes, audits and regulatory requirements
Foster a strong culture of continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to enhance care quality and service delivery
Build strong relationships with residents, families, GPs and allied health professionals to support coordinated, holistic care
Partner with the Residential Services Manager to ensure clinical governance, AN-ACC funding integrity and sustainable service outcomes
What makes a difference for us?
You’ll be a highly experienced clinical leader with a strong background in aged care or a similar environment. You’ll be passionate about person-centred care and lead by example through your clinical expertise, communication and leadership capability.
You will bring:
Bachelor of Nursing (or equivalent)
Current AHPRA registration
Extensive clinical experience, ideally within residential aged care
Demonstrated leadership experience managing and developing teams
Strong clinical assessment, decision-making and problem-solving skills
Experience in clinical governance, quality standards and compliance frameworks
Knowledge of aged care funding models (AN-ACC) and regulatory requirements
Ability to manage competing priorities in a complex environment
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
NDIS Worker Screening Clearance (or willingness to obtain)
Postgraduate qualifications in aged care, clinical leadership or a related specialty will be highly regarded (desirable)
Ability to meet relevant probity checks and compliance requirements
How to apply:
Click APPLY to submit your application, you'll be redirected to our website to create a candidate profile, upload your resume and complete a questionnaire.
We warmly encourage applications from First Nations peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people living with disability, and people of all genders and identities.
Employee Benefits:
Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum
A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme
Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
Career development opportunities with one of the most trusted community and residential care providers in Australia to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
BlueCare is proudly part of the UnitingCare Family, we’d love you to be too
Joining the state’s largest network of aged care workers with its over 8,000 strong, bright team in blue, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. With more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, you are part of something bigger. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.
Child safe, Child friendly
UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:
Provide welcoming, safe & nurturing services for children
Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur
Abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme
Diversity & Inclusion
Our approach is simple –everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position. For additional support and to meet our RAP Team, email [email protected]
Safe workplace
We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.
Commitment to Safeguarding
We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.
