Clinical Nurse Manager | Aged Care | Breaking the Rules
* Circa $130,000 + Super + Salary Packaging
* Large NFP Residential Aged Care Provider
* Relocation Assistance to Regional NSW (coastal location)
Rule 1 of being a recruiter: don't make it obvious who your client is in your advert. We're taught this from day one. There's several reasons to this but here are the two main ones:
1. You don't want your competitors hounding your client.
2. You DO want candidates to speak with you first.
I think I'm going to have to break this rule as it's going to be REALLY difficult to contain my enthusiasm and hide who my client is. To the point where I'm considering just naming them.
Because if I wrote a typical advert, the kind that you see plastered across 99% of SEEK, I wouldn't be doing my client justice. I wouldn't be able to convey how gosh darned excited I am to have been engaged by their P&C team to find a Care Manager for their facility in Regional NSW (coastal).
So here's the deal. I'll craft an application inspiring advert, leaving enough clues as to who they are. But all I ask is that if you're interested, don't do what the super savvy CEO of this organisation did to get his own job, which was to (and here's your first hint as to who my client is):
1. Read a recruiter written job ad in the newspaper,
2. Make an application but hearing nothing back,
3. Figure out who the organisation was
4. Call them directly to cheekily ask when his interview was taking place
To be fair, if he never took matters into his own hands, I wouldn't have been able to interview him on my podcast (second hint).
And what I learned from that CEO during that podcast interview, and from everyone else I've spoken to at this organisation, is exactly why I'm willing to break the rules for them. It's because they don't just talk about their history but they live by it.
Their whole philosophy, going back 145 years (third hint), is that you look after your own.
I know what you're thinking. Every provider under the sun says they're "a family." But this organisation has put their money where their mouth is on a scale that is genuinely unheard of.
In one of their locations, they have built apartments exclusively for their staff. Not as a temporary perk, but as a home you can live in at a heavily subsidised rent.
And here's the crazy part, the part that brought me to literal tears during the podcast (seriously, go to the episode and you'll see me snotting away. Also, fourth hint). You can continue to live in that home, at that same affordable rent, even after you retire
Mind.
Blown.
To be clear, they don't have this scheme available where this specific vacancy is. This is just to show you what type of organisation they are.
Having said that, while this has only been rolled out in one location, the CEO also stated "I went to the board and I said… let's do it everywhere else. So our plan is to build staff housing at our other locations."
That's just crazy to me. In this day and age, with soaring property prices and cost of living.
I couldn't help but feel emotional.
So now you know why I'm a huge fan of this client and why I'm taking the risk in being circumvented in the process. Because my client really does deserve the best of the best and I'll do everything in my power to ensure they get the greatest Care Manager possible.
So if you:
* Like what you read above
* Have significant experience in Residential Aged Care
* Are a Clinical Nurse Manager / Clinical Care Manager
* Are an AHPRA Registered Nurse
* Have full working rights in Australia
* Are willing to relocate to Regional Australia
Then apply to this advert. Or send your CV to or call me on for confidential enquiries.
Anthony Nguyen | Founding Director of Aged Care Recruitment Experts (ACRE) | Host of the Pioneers in Aged Care Podcast | Co-Host of All Things Aged Care Weekly Live Stream |
If you haven't heard of the Pioneers in Aged Care Podcast, check out the episode list below for guests I've interviewed so far:
EP#1: Stephen Becsi, CEO of Apollo Care
EP#2: Emma Newman, Senior Ops Manager at MercyCare
EP#3: Tim Lo, Head of Training at Amana Living Training Institute
EP#4: Catherine Stoddart, CEO of Brightwater Care Group
EP#5: Hasan Shoeib, GM RAC & HomeCare at Amaroo Villages
EP#6: Aarav Kumar, CEO of KeenCare
EP#7: Paul Sadler, Principal at Paul Sadler Consultancy
EP#8: Richard de Haast, CEO of Scalabrini
EP#9: Sarah Saeedi, GM at Bolton Clarke
EP#10: Michael Mouyis, COO of Infinite Aged Care
EP#11: Kirrie Hall, Hospitality Manager at Juniper
EP#12: CEO of Global Talent Agency
EP#13: David Cox, CEO of Curtin Heritage Living
EP#14: Justin Chadwick, Director at NewDirection Care
EP#15: Nick Ryan, CEO of Lutheran Services Australia
EP#16: Nick McDonald, CEO of Prestige Inhome Care
EP#17: Nilesh Bansal, Founder of Aurelia Legal
EP#18: Chris Deed, Director of The PureFood Co
EP#19: Tara Chandrasegran, Regional Ops Manager VIC
EP#20: Julie Hogarth-Williams, CEO of The SeniorsChannel
EP#21: Frank Price, CEO of RFBI
EP#22: Phil Mackney, COO of BUPA Villages & Aged Care
EP#23: Dane Mitchell, MD of Optimum Allied Health
EP#24: Belinda Sutherland, GM Health & Well-being at Wesley Mission QLD
EP#25: Peter Williams, CEO of OneCare
EP#26: Jennie Hewitt, GM Research & Reablement at Whiddon
EP#27: Dr Tim Henwood, Founder & Principal of AgeFit Solutions
EP#28: Dr Rebecca Bilton, Director Program & Research at ARIIA
EP#29: Craig Carter, CIO of ACH Group
EP#30: Daniel Waldron, GM of Strategy & BI at Mercy Health
EP#31: George Margelis, Chief Technology Advisor at Ageing Australia
EP#32: Robert Covino, Founder & CEO of Mirus Australia
EP#33: David Martin, Executive Chef Manager at St Vincent's Care
EP#34: Shane Roulston, Founding Director of NeuronsVR
EP#35: David Moran, CEO of Southern Cross Care SA, NT & VIC
EP#36: Lachlan Henderson, CEO of hopstep
EP#37: Charles Moore, CEO of BaptistCare
EP#38: Linda Mellors, MD & CEO of Regis Aged Care
EP#39: Fabio Maya, CEO of For Purpose Aged Care
EP#40: Sandra Hills, CEO of Benetas
EP#41: Cara Williams, Head of Business Partnering at Bolton Clarke
EP#42: Jason Binder, CEO of Respect
EP#43: Marie Alford, GM of Innovation at HammondCare
EP#44: Tom Symondson, CEO of Ageing Australia
EP#45: Jo Boylan, former CEO of Clayton Church Homes
EP#46: Archie Mursalin, CEO of Salveo HomeCare
EP#47: Lincoln Hopper, CEO of St Vincent's Care
This advert only took me 4 hours and 48 minutes to write so if you made it all the way to the end, thank you