Nursing Manager, Community Nursing Services
Key clinical leadership position.
Mentor and support regionally based clinical and care teams. Help maximise clinical team utilisation.
Responsibilities
* Provide direction, support and guidance to Registered Nurses in the field, ensuring a person‐centred approach that recognises each client's unique preferences and clinical needs.
* Develop, implement and monitor consistent, best practice policies and procedures across all teams and locations in collaboration with the Education team.
* Embed quality care and clinical governance systems and processes, aligned to RSL LifeCare's clinical framework.
* Manage clinical governance systems to meet and maintain accreditation requirements.
* Work with Area Managers, Regional Manager and care teams to identify, mitigate and resolve actual or potential risks and ensure lessons learned are shared.
* Model a culture and approach where clients are the focal point in decision making and the design of care delivery models.
* Participate in and contribute to incident management and investigations as required.
* Participate in an on‐call roster for clinical escalation during evenings and weekends as required.
* Demonstrate leadership through effective interaction with nursing and care teams, including travel to sites within your designated region.
Qualifications and Experience
* Registration as a registered nurse with no current conditions placed upon registration.
* Minimum 5 years' postgraduate clinical experience within health care, aged care, community or other relevant environment.
* Motivation for and demonstrated track record in effectively coaching and leading clinical and care teams.
* Experience managing compliance with regulatory standards.
* Sound understanding of person‐centred approaches to clinical care and support.
* Compassion, empathy, and ability to build meaningful relationships across a broad range of stakeholders.
* Demonstrated ability to make good decisions that balance commercial outcomes with customer experience, applying consideration to mitigate risk.
* Roster management experience.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Demonstrated understanding of the regulatory environment in aged care.
* Right to work in Australia.
* First Aid and CPR certifications (or willingness to obtain).
* Open to fortnightly regional travel to Central Coast and Dubbo.
* Valid Police Check or a valid National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) check, or both, as required for the aged care sector. Clearances must be verified prior to commencing employment with RSL LifeCare.
Benefits
* Not-for-profit tax benefits – salary packaging of up to $15,900 per year.
* An additional $2,650 annual meal allowance.
* Staff discounts across 700 select retail stores through Maxxia Rewards.
* Leave loading – 17.5% pay top‐up on paid leave.
Diversity and Equal Opportunity
We welcome and encourage applications from people across our diverse community, especially from Veterans, current serving ADF personnel, their families and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants. We believe everyone has the right to feel safe, respected, valued and heard regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or disability.
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