About this Clinical Nurse role at UnitingCare Queensland
Clinical Nurse | BlueCare | Yeppoon Capricorn Aged Care Facility
Employment Term: Permanent Full Time
Location: Yeppoon Capricorn Aged Care Facility
Remuneration: $59.43 – $60.70 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 a Clinical Nurse, you'll play a key leadership role in delivering safe, high-quality, person-centered care to residents. Working closely with the Residential Service Manager and wider care team, you'll provide expert clinical guidance, support complex care needs and help create positive outcomes that enhance residents' quality of life. You will:
Lead and support the delivery of safe, high-quality, person-centered care for residents.
Provide expert clinical guidance and support for complex care needs and clinical decision-making.
Complete comprehensive clinical assessments and oversee effective care planning and reviews.
Mentor, coach and support nursing and care teams to deliver best-practice outcomes.
Champion infection prevention and control initiatives across the home.
Build strong relationships with residents, families, allied health professionals and other key stakeholders.
Support quality improvement, clinical governance and compliance with aged care standards and funding requirements.
Maintain accurate clinical documentation and contribute to positive resident outcomes and quality of life.
Role Requirements:
Full, unrestricted AHPRA registration and unlimited work entitlements.
Minimum three years' experience as a Registered Nurse, ideally within aged care.
Strong clinical assessment, critical thinking and decision-making skills.
Experience supporting residents with complex care needs, including dementia and palliative care.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and support multidisciplinary teams.
Knowledge of aged care quality standards, funding requirements and clinical governance practices.
Strong communication, documentation and stakeholder engagement skills.
IPC Lead training, or willingness to complete the training.
Confidence to satisfy the relevant probity checks required by legislation or policies.
NDIS Workers Screening Clearance or willingness to obtain.
How to apply
Click APPLY to submit your application.
For more information, please contact: Dani, Talent Acquisition Advisor via email at [email protected].
We warmly encourage applications from First Nations peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people living with disability, and people of all genders and identities.
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 programs
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
BlueCare is proudly part of the UnitingCare Family, we’d love you to be too
Joining the state’s largest network of aged care workers with its over 8,000 strong, bright team in blue, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. With more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, you are part of something bigger. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.
Child safe, Child friendly
UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:
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
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 [email protected]
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 in 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 in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.
