Aged Care Home Services Lead | Impactful Team Leader

UnitingCare Queensland; Rockhampton Regional; In loco; AUD 75.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

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UnitingCare Queensland is seeking a Home Services Lead for the Yeppoon Capricorn Aged Care Facility. This position defines leadership in delivering person-centred, high-quality services across home environments, focusing on food safety and compliance.

As a leader, you’ll cultivate a positive culture within your team, ensuring operational performance aligns with essential service standards. The role offers both full-time and part-time options, enhancing flexibility for the right candidate.

Benefits include competitive remuneration and unique salary packaging options to maximize your take-home pay.

Competenze

• Proven leadership capability in service operations.
• Experience in aged care or healthcare environments.
• Strong problem-solving and organizational ability.

Mansioni

• Lead food services, cleaning, and laundry delivery.
• Coach and develop the team for high performance.
• Ensure compliance with food safety standards.

Conoscenze

Food safety knowledge

Leadership capabilities

Effective communication

Continuous improvement

Formazione

Certificate IV in Leadership & Management

Food Safety Supervisor Certification

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Home Services Lead | BlueCare | Yeppoon Capricorn Aged Care Facility

• Employment Term: Permanent Full Time (Mon-Fri)
• Location: Yeppoon Capricorn Aged Care Facility
• Remuneration: $39.21 per hour + Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + Penalties & Allowances
  
  

Relocating for the right opportunity? We've got you covered.

• Relocation assistance of up to $5,000*
• Rental assistance of up to $2,500*
• Available to eligible candidates relocating from more than 250km away.
  
  

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 our Home Services Lead, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, person-centred services across home environments—ensuring every interaction reflects care, safety, and excellence. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll guide your team, oversee daily operations, and drive service performance, creating a positive experience for residents, families, and stakeholders alike.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead the day-to-day delivery of food services, cleaning, and laundry services
• Coach, support, and develop your team, building a strong, accountable, and engaged culture
• Ensure services are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a consistently high standard
• Oversee workflow, rostering, and operational performance
• Maintain compliance with food safety, infection control, and quality standards
• Build positive relationships with residents, families, and internal stakeholders
• Identify opportunities to improve service delivery and enhance the customer experience
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, quality, and care
  
  

Role Requirements

As an experienced service operations leader, ideally within aged care, healthcare, or a similar environment, you’ll be self-motivated, proactive, and bring strong leadership capability. You’ll empower your team to deliver safe, high-quality, person-centred services, while reinforcing the importance of food safety, compliance, and continuous improvement. You’ll demonstrate:

• Strong knowledge of food safety, infection control, and service standards, supported by experience in a regulated environment
• Experience leading teams across kitchen operations, cleaning and/or laundry services
• Proven leadership capability, including coaching, rostering, and building a positive team culture
• A proactive approach to problem-solving, organisation, and continuous improvement
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with residents, families, and stakeholders
  
  

Essential Qualifications & Licences

• A relevant trade or operational qualification (e.g. Certificate III Commercial Cookery or similar), or equivalent supervisory experience
• Diploma or Certificate IV in Leadership & Management or willingness to obtain
• Food Safety Supervisor Certification or willingness to obtain
• Confidence to satisfy the relevant probity checks required by legislation or policies
  
  

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.

For more information, please contact: Dani, Talent Acquisition Advisor, on 0455 999 237 or via email at [e-mail]

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 opportunitieswith 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 iswelcome 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 [e-mail]

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.