Home Services Lead

UnitingCare Queensland; Rockhampton Regional; On-site; AUD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging options

Recognition and rewards platform

Paid parental leave

Career development opportunities

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Food safety knowledge

Leadership capabilities

Effective communication

Continuous improvement

Education

Certificate IV in Leadership & Management

Food Safety Supervisor Certification

Job description

Home Services Lead | BlueCare | Yeppoon Capricorn Aged Care Facility

Employment Term: Full time or part time

Location: Yeppoon Capricorn Aged Care Facility

Remuneration: $39.21 per hour + Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + Penalties & Allowances

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

• Certificate IV in Leadership & Management (or Diploma)
• A relevant trade or operational qualification (e.g. Certificate IV in Hospitality, Commercial Cookery or similar), or equivalent supervisory experience
• Food Safety Supervisor Certification
• Ability to satisfy all required probity checks in line with legislation and BlueCare policies

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 programmes
• 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 opportunities with one of the most trusted community and residential care providers in Australia to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference

Diversity & Inclusion

Our approach is simple–everybody is welcome 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]

Child Safe, Child Friendly

• 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

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 to 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 to preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.