Clinical Care Manager

RSL LifeCare Limited; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax benefits

Meal/Entertainment benefits

Staff discounts

Leave loading 17.5%

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

RSL LifeCare is seeking a Clinical Care Manager at our Narrabeen aged care home to lead clinical care delivery for 75 residents, ensuring high-quality care plans and strong clinical governance. You will supervise nursing and care teams, advance quality improvement initiatives, and build relationships with health and community partners to elevate resident wellbeing.

Full-time role with relocation support, a supportive, inclusive culture, and opportunities to mentor staff and contribute to

Qualifications

• AHPRA registration required.
• 5+ years postgraduate clinical experience in healthcare or aged care.
• Regulatory compliance management experience.
• Strong person-centred care approach with compassion and empathy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Budget management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical care delivery and care planning for 75 residents.
• Supervise nursing and care teams and manage the clinical governance framework.
• Drive the quality improvement cycle for the facility.
• Deliver clinical care across medical/rehabilitative, dementia, and restorative needs.
• Promote resident wellbeing, social connection and inclusive culture.
• Support and enable development of Clinical and Care teams through education and training.
• Build relationships with health and community groups to raise the facility's profile.
• Assist Facility Manager with labour cost-management initiatives.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Team motivation

Budget management

Communication skills

Person-centered care

Empathy

Education

AHPRA registration

Job description

Full-time position - relocation support available. Stunning lakeside location - Narrabeen, NSW. Friendly, supportive team.

About Us

RSL LifeCare is a leader in senior living, providing high-quality retirement villages, aged care homes (nursing homes) and personal home care throughout NSW and ACT. Proudly serving Australia for over 100 years, RSL LifeCare is a successful and growing not-for-profit organisation.

About the Role

As the Clinical Care Manager at our Aged Care home in Narrabeen, you will assume clinical leadership responsibility for the delivery of high-quality care and care planning for our 75 residents. You will be accountable for the supervision of nursing and care teams, management of the clinical governance framework and play a key role in the quality improvement cycle for our facility.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to:

• Deliver exceptional clinical care - medical/rehabilitative, dementia and restorative
• Elevate lifestyle, wellbeing, social connection, and care for our residents
• Demonstrate leadership in embedding quality and safety as a key focus
• Establish operating rhythms with team members to create an open and inclusive culture
• Support and enable the development of Clinical and Care teams by providing hands-on education and training and identify opportunities for growth
• Promote the profile of RSL LifeCare in the local area by building relationships with health and community groups
• Support the Facility Manager to ensure Clinical and Care labour cost-management initiatives are fully adopted

About You

To be considered for this position, we are seeking people who have:

• A current AHPRA registration
• A minimum 5 years’ postgraduate clinical experience within health care, aged care, or another relevant environment
• Experience managing compliance with regulatory standards
• Sound understanding of person-centred approaches to clinical care and support
• Demonstrated compassion, empathy, and ability to build meaningful relationships
• Demonstrated ability to make good decisions which balance commercial outcomes with customer experience
• Experience in motivating teams, managing performance, and delivering on accountabilities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Sound financial acumen as evidenced by prior budget management experience

Our Benefits

RSL LifeCare offers a range of benefits including:

• Not-for-profit tax benefits - salary packaging of up to $15,900 per year.
• This allows you to reduce your taxable income by receiving part of your salary as tax-free benefits like super contributions, car leasing, and more.
• An extra $2,650 tax-free salary packaging benefits for meals and entertainment
• Staff discounts across 700 select retail stores
• Leave Loading - 17.5% pay top up on paid leave.
• Future career growth opportunities across Residential Care homes, Retirement Living Villages and Home Care Services

Our commitment to diversity

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.

To find out more about RSL LifeCare, visit our website at www.rsllifecare.org.au

Location RC Narrabeen Peter Cosgrove

RSL LifeCare is a leader in senior living, providing high quality retirement villages, aged care homes (nursing homes) and personal home care throughout NSW and the ACT. Proudly serving Australia for over 100 years, RSL LifeCare is a successful and growing not-for profit organisation which began as a haven for war veterans and today is open to all Australians.