Clinical Care Partner | Aboriginal Home Health

Australian Unity Limited; Central Coast; Hybrid; AUD 105,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Community Leave

Wellbeing Leave

Flexible work options

LinkedIn Learning

Staff discounts

Fitness Passport

Novated Car Leasing

Parental Leave

Job summary

Australian Unity is seeking a Clinical Care Partner | Aboriginal Home Health in NSW. The role offers a permanent full-time position across Tuggerah, Warners Bay or Maitland with a hybrid work model and flexible hours.

Salary ranges from $105,000 to $120,000 TFEC per year, reflecting senior clinical responsibilities and culturally safe practice. The role focuses on leadership, risk management, and coordination of care with multidisciplinary teams to improve outcomes for higher-need customers.

Qualifications

• Clinical leadership and escalation support for high-complexity customers.
• 4+ years of community or subacute care experience.
• AHPRA registration where applicable.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and escalation support for customers with complex or changing needs.
• Support Care Partners to identify and respond to clinical risk and deterioration.
• Undertake clinical reviews to optimise outcomes.
• Apply clinical judgement for safe, timely decisions.
• Support transitions of care including hospital admissions and discharges.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration across Care Partnering and external providers.
• Contribute to governance, risk, and quality improvement activities.
• Coach and mentor to build capability and workforce success.
• Support proactive care planning and clinical oversight for high-risk cohorts.
• Ensure accurate documentation and proper use of clinical systems.

Skills

Culturally safe practice

Clinical leadership

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Team collaboration

AHPRA registration

Nursing or Allied Health

4+ years experience

Clinical assessment

Risk management

Education

Nursing or Allied Health qualification

Job description

Clinical Care Partner | Aboriginal Home Health

We are looking for a Clinical Care Partner | Aboriginal Home Health to support safe, coordinated, and proactive care for customers with complex or changing needs.

This role is a key clinical position within the Neighbourhood Care Partnering model, providing clinical leadership, escalation management, and decision support to Care Partners and the broader multidisciplinary team. The Clinical Care Partner plays a critical role in identifying and managing clinical risk, supporting customer outcomes, and ensuring customers receive the right care at the right time.

• This is a Permanent Full-Time opportunity which can be based in either Tuggerah, Warners Bay or Maitland NSW offering flexibility and a great work-life balance
• Flexible work hours: 8:30am - 4:30pm or 9:00am - 5:00pm, Monday to Friday
• Remuneration ranges from $105,000 to $120,000 TFEC
• Hybrid work model combining client visits, office days & work from home opportunities

About the role

In this role, you will support customers with higher complexity needs while providing clinical guidance and capability uplift across Care Partnering teams.

You will:

• Provide clinical leadership and escalation support for customers with complex, unstable, or changing needs
• Support Care Partners to identify, assess, and respond appropriately to clinical risk and deterioration
• Undertake clinical reviews and interventions to optimise customer outcomes
• Apply clinical judgement to support safe and timely decision making
• Support transitions of care, including hospital admissions, discharges, and changes in customer needs
• Facilitate collaboration across Care Partnering, Service Delivery, Clinical Services, and external healthcare providers
• Assist with clinical governance, risk management, and quality improvement activities
• Contribute to workforce capability through coaching, mentoring, and sharing clinical expertise
• Support proactive care planning and clinical oversight for higher-risk customer cohorts
• Ensure accurate documentation and appropriate use of clinical systems and escalation pathways

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, with a strong commitment to culturally safe and respectful practice
• You are a clinically experienced professional who enjoys improving customer outcomes, supporting others, and working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary environment
• Tertiary qualifications in Nursing or Allied Health with current AHPRA registration where applicable
• Demonstrated 4+ years' experience supporting older people in community, subacute or complex care settings
• Strong clinical assessment, reasoning, and decision-making capability
• Experience managing customer risk and responding to clinical deterioration
• Ability to coach and support others to build confidence and capability
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams
• Understanding and adherence to clinical governance, quality, and risk frameworks
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment
• A customer-centred approach focused on safety, wellbeing, and positive outcomes

Why work for Australian Unity?

• Additional Leave benefits including Community, Wellbeing & Deep Listening Leave
• Flexible Work Options in line with company policy
• Career development with full access to LinkedIn Learning & internal opportunities
• Staff discounts across our insurance products as well as our travel and retail partners
• Fitness Passport offering discounted access to 1,500+ gyms & facilities
• Novated Car Leasing options through our partners Maxxia or Flair Cars
• 14 weeks paid Parental Leave

Australian Unity is an Equal Opportunity employer, and we encourage applications from all members of the community, including people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and, mature, aged people. To view our Reconciliation Action Plan, please click https://www.australianunity.com.au/about-us/reconciliation-action-plan