Registered Nurse | BlueCare | Community Care
Employment Status: Permanent Full Time
Location: Mareeba & Surrounding Areas
Remuneration: $43.03 – $54.63 per hour + 12% Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging (increases your take‑home pay) + Allowances & Travel Reimbursement (km’s) + Employee discounts
Other Benefits:
- Relocation Opportunity: up to $5,000 relocation allowance for candidates who need to relocate to Atherton
- Additional retention bonuses: up to $27,500 over 24 months (only available to RNs who remain in a permanent full‑time capacity)
- Access up to $15,900 per year tax‑free with an additional $2,650 per year for meals and entertainment
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.
About the role
As a Registered Nurse, you will provide person‑centred care to clients in the community, ensuring a safe environment and applying your clinical skills to improve their quality of life through activities that include:
- Assess, plan and implement client care within your scope
- Consider physical, social and psychological requirements
- Create and update care plans to reflect developing needs
- Ensure clinical quality compliance standards are met
- Work collaboratively with other multidisciplinary team members
With no two days ever the same, you’ll spend the majority of your day on the road, completing your scheduled community visits.
We encourage our team to be creative and enjoy themselves while contributing to our success. Come join one of the most trusted community and residential care providers in Australia.
Role requirements
- Full, unrestricted AHPRA registration and unlimited work entitlements
- Excellent communication and clinical problem‑solving skills
- Current Australian Driver’s Licence (Green Provisional minimum) – Essential
- Roadworthy & insured (Third‑party Property minimum) vehicle to use for work – Essential
- Confidence in managing time effectively, including the ability to work autonomously
Employee Benefits
- Salary packaging of everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum to save tax and increase take‑home pay
- 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: paid gender‑affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for celebrations such as Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
- Career development opportunities to grow and make a meaningful difference
BlueCare is proudly part of the UnitingCare Family
Joining the state’s largest network of aged care workers with over 8,000 strong, blue‑branded staff, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. With more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands (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 is compassionate, inclusive and committed to 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, protected & 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
Diversity & Inclusion
Our approach is simple: everybody is welcome. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of 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, we strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position. For additional support and to meet our RAP Team, email
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.
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