Carinity
Residential Aged Care Manager
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Lead a Residential Aged Care Home
Responsibility for quality, workforce, compliance, and operational performance.
Thrive in a Progressive and Caring Not-for-Profit Environment
- Drive high-quality, individualized care and operational excellence
- Make a real impact in residents’ daily lives
About The Opportunity
An exciting leadership opportunity awaits at Carinity Brownesholme in Highfields. As the Residential Aged Care Manager, you will provide operational, clinical, and strategic leadership of the home, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, person-centred care that upholds residents’ dignity, choice, and independence.
Reporting to the General Manager – Residential Aged Care, you will be accountable for overall home performance, including workforce leadership, financial management, quality and compliance oversight, occupancy outcomes, risk management, and continuous improvement. This is an opportunity to lead a dedicated multidisciplinary team within a values-based organisation committed to creating communities where people are loved, accepted, and supported to reach their full potential.
Your Day-to-day Will Involve
- Leading day-to-day operations of the home, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, person-centred care aligned with Carinity’s Mission, Vision, and Values.
- Providing leadership and oversight to multidisciplinary teams including nursing, care, hospitality, lifestyle, chaplaincy, administration, and support services.
- Driving compliance with the Aged Care Act 2024, Aged Care Quality Standards, Aged Care Code of Conduct, and all relevant legislative regulatory requirements.
- Managing workforce planning, staffing, rosters, care minutes, performance development, employee engagement, and retention initiatives.
- Leading quality, safety, and risk management activities including incident management, complaints resolution, audits, continuous improvement programs, and accreditation readiness.
- Managing home budgets, occupancy performance, resource allocation, and funding optimization strategies to achieve operational and financial objectives.
- Oversight of clinical governance, resident wellbeing, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, and service quality outcomes.
- Building strong relationships with residents, families, staff, community stakeholders, and regulatory bodies to foster trust, transparency, and excellent resident experiences.
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About You
- Demonstrated experience managing a Residential Aged Care home, with responsibility for operational, workforce, quality, and financial outcomes.
- Strong knowledge of the Aged Care Act 2024, Aged Care Quality Standards, governance, risk management, and compliance requirements.
- Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop multidisciplinary teams while fostering a positive, accountable, and values-driven workplace culture.
- Experience managing budgets, occupancy targets, workforce planning, care minutes, and resource allocation within a residential aged care environment.
- Strong understanding of clinical governance, continuous improvement, incident and complaints management, and accreditation processes.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with residents, families, staff, and external partners.
- Registered Nurse (Division 1) qualification with AHPRA registration (preferred)
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Clearance (or ability to obtain)
- Current Driver’s Licence
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The Benefits Of Joining The Carinity Team
- Appealing not-for-profit (PBI) salary packaging options.
- Access to an employee assistance program (professional counselling).
- At Carinity we acknowledge the need to balance your work and personal life and are genuinely committed to this.
- Monthly Rostered Day Off (RDO)
- On-going professional development and training.
- Legitimate chance to make a real difference to the community, every day.
How Do I Apply?
Click “Apply” and you will be redirected to Carinity’s website, which will contain more information on Carinity and this position, including the Position Description. We look forward to receiving your application.
Carinity actively encourages and invites applications from people with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for all our positions.
Due to the inherent requirements of this role and legislative requirements under the Child Employment Act, applicants must be 18 years of age or older.
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