Community Aged Care Manager

Carinity; Sunshine Coast Regional; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging options

Fully maintained vehicle and fuel

Employee assistance program

Work-life balance

Professional development

Job summary

Carinity on the Sunshine Coast is seeking a capable leader to oversee a community aged care hub, delivering person-centred services that empower older people to live safely and independently at home.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team, ensure compliance with the Aged Care Act and Quality Standards, manage budgets, and build strong relationships with clients, families and health professionals. This role blends operational oversight with strategic service improvement.

Qualifications

• Qualifications in Aged Care, Nursing, Allied Health or Community Services.
• NDIS Worker Screening Clearance, Fiduciary check, Driver’s Licence
• Strong working knowledge of aged care legislation, Quality Standards and funding programs
• Proven experience leading community or home care services and multidisciplinary teams
• Demonstrated financial and operational management capability
• Ability to drive change, continuous improvement and service growth

Responsibilities

• Overseeing day-to-day operations, including rostering, service delivery, care planning and documentation standards
• Managing and mentoring a team of clinical staff, care partners, carers and support staff to deliver exceptional care
• Ensuring compliance with the Aged Care Act, Quality Standards and funding program requirements
• Monitoring budgets, utilisation and financial performance, identifying and addressing variances
• Building strong relationships with clients, families, health professionals and community stakeholders
• Driving continuous improvement, implementing change and embedding best practice across the service

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Financial management

Compliance knowledge

Education

Qualifications in Aged Care, Nursing, Allied Health or Community Services

Job description

Lead high quality community aged care services that empowerolder people to live safely, independently and with dignity intheir own homes.

About the opportunity:

This pivotal leadership role is responsible for deliveringhigh-quality, person-centred home care services that empowers olderpeople to live with dignity, safety and independence in their ownhomes. Leading the day-to-day operations of a community aged carehub, the role oversees the planning and coordination ofindividualised care, ensuring services align with each client’sgoals, preferences and needs. At the same time, it provides strongleadership and support to a multidisciplinary team, fostering apositive and high-performing culture focused on safe, high-qualityperson-centred care outcomes.

Blending operational oversight with a genuine commitment topeople, the role brings together client advocacy, team leadership,financial management and stakeholder engagement. Working closelywith clients, families and health professionals, it ensures everyinteraction is respectful, responsive and outcomes focused. With astrong focus on continuous improvement, service quality andsustainable performance, this role plays an important part inshaping the future of community aged care within the region.

Your day-to-day will involve:

• Overseeing day-to-day operations, including rostering,service delivery, care planning and documentationstandards
• Managing and mentoring a team of clinical staff, carepartners, carers and support staff to deliver exceptionalcare
• Ensuring compliance with the Aged Care Act, QualityStandards and funding program requirements
• Monitoring budgets, utilisation and financial performance,identifying and addressing variances
• Building strong relationships with clients, families,health professionals and community stakeholders
• Driving continuous improvement, implementing change andembedding best practice across the service

About you:

You are a confident, compassionate and resilient leader whothrives in a fast paced, people focused environment. You bring astrong understanding of community aged care, balanced withcommercial awareness and the ability to lead teams through sectorchange. You bring proven leadership skills with experience insupervising and developing high performing teams. Above all, youare values driven, with a genuine commitment to delivering safe,high quality care and improving outcomes for older people to remainat home in the community.

• Qualifications in Aged Care, Nursing, Allied Health orCommunity Services
• NDIS Worker Screening Clearance, Fiduciary check, Driver’sLicence
• Strong working knowledge of aged care legislation, QualityStandards and funding programs
• Proven experience leading community or home care servicesand multidisciplinary teams
• Demonstrated financial and operational managementcapability
• Ability to drive change, continuous improvement and servicegrowth

The benefits of joining the Carinity team

• Appealing not-for-profit (PBI) salary packagingoptions
• Fully maintained Vehicle and fuel provided as part of yoursalary package for both personal and work use
• Access to an employee assistance program
• Carinity is genuinely committed to supporting work-lifebalance and employee wellbeing
• On-going professional development and training
• Legitimate chance to make a real difference to thecommunity, every day

Carinity actively encourages and invites applications frompeople with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanderpeople for all our positions.

Due to the inherent requirements of this role andlegislative requirements under the Child Employment Act, applicantsmust be 18 years of age or older.

Attachments:

- Carinity Community Aged Care PD - Community Aged Care Manager.docx