Clinical Nurse

Clinical Nurse | BlueCare | Yeppoon Capricorn Aged Care Facility

• Employment Term: Permanent Full Time, Monday to Friday
• Location: Capricorn Aged Care Facility in Yeppoon
• Remuneration: $59.43 – $60.70 per hour + Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + Penalties & Allowances 

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• Relocation assistance of up to $5,000*
• Rental assistance of up to $2,500*

*Available to eligible candidates relocating from more than 250km away. Terms and conditions apply.

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 (Essential)

• 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 contact_hr@ucareqld.com.au.

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 reconciliation@ucareqld.com.au

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.

Join the UnitingCare family

UnitingCare is the second-largest Queensland employer, with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of UnitingCare, BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital.

When you join the UnitingCare family, you are part of something bigger. We are a proud not-for-profit with a compassionate and inclusive team who are committed to the work we do. People who want to make the world a little better through small moments that leave big impacts.

For more than 100 years we’ve been inspired by our mission to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities.

www.unitingcareqld.com.au

Why work with us?

We’re on a mission to make a meaningful difference every day, working with thousands of Australians to ensure they live life in all its fullness.

We want people who are great as individuals, and even better in a team. People who stand up for what is right. Who are open to new ideas. Who champion innovation. Who lead through learning, and lead by example.

So, if you’re looking for an opportunity to make a meaningful difference, to grow, thrive and to be rewarded, it’s time you joined our UnitingCare familiy.

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