Clinical Care Manager - Residential Aged Care

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 Port Macquarie, you will assume clinical leadership responsibility for the delivery of high-quality care and care planning for our 80 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  

Join us today and see where it takes you tomorrow!

It is a mandatory requirement for a team member working in the Aged Care sector to have a valid Police Check or a valid National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) check, or potentially both, to undertake the inherent requirements of the role. Clearances must be verified prior to commencing employment with RSL LifeCare.

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. 

If you think you could make a positive difference in our residents' lives then apply now.  
 
To find out more about RSL LifeCare, visit our website at www.rsllifecare.org.au