AddressAbout the Role
As a General Manager you will embrace and share our values of being Brave, Caring and Responsible. As a passionate, empathetic, and nurturing leader; you will lead our care home and the team to achieve its care, safety, financial, operational, customer and peopleobjectives. You will be provided witha strong supportstructure, including highly experienced and supportive operational and clinical management teams. You will be rewarded with a competitive salary package and management bonuses. Play a pivotal part in driving our purpose to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
About the Care Home
BupaWaratahisa modern care home set in the quiet residential suburb of Waratah, Newcastle. You will be close to the local community with Waratah village shopping centre, parks including Blackbutt reserve, Newcastle Harbour, local beaches and John Hunter and Mater Misericordiae Hospitalnearby.We'reproud that our care homes strong commitment to a happy, quality Home is reflected in our most recentindependently verifiedteam engagement score of 80+, which is considered world class against global benchmarks.
Benefits
- Range of discounts on Bupa products – Healthcare, Optical, Dental
- ‘People First’ wellness program that can be accessed by all employees.
- Bupa Online Leadership Development, available on demand.
- Clinical learning opportunities and more, through online and face to face training.
- Internal transfers across our care homes.
- Employee Networks for you to get involved in an area you are passionate about, have your voice heard and be you at Bupa.
Duties
- Create a positive and engaged culture in the Care Home for all employees to thrive in.
- Provide strong leadership to your Care Home employees, leading with Bupa’s Values to ensure your team is supported to perform at their best
- Support your leaders to have frequent team and individual performance and development conversations, to help employees be successful in their roles
- Ensure a person-first approach is taken at the Care Home to support our residents and their families, enabling and respecting residents to make informed decisions about their care
- Ensure Aged Care Standards are embedded within the Home.
- Diagnose and solve business problems, drawing on your key business insights to develop and executeappropriate interventionsat pace
- Deliver the required commercial outcomes
Skills & Experience
- Experience leading a customer-centric culture in a B2C business, focused on enhancing customer engagement, experience and acting on customer feedback.
- Leadership roles in highly regulated sectors withstrong performancestandards, risk and capital management, and sense of purpose / brand identity (profits reinvested in the business for customers).
- Capacityto actively learn through experimentation,pivotand apply experience to new roles and industry.
- Has developed or driven continuous improvement efforts in large organisational settings.
- Experience leading others through high-pressure situations or adversity.
- Solid commercial understanding of budgets, resource management and key levers for profitability – to allow for better care outcomes and re-investment opportunities.
- Considers differences in stakeholder perspectives to reachoptimalsolutions and ensure organisational responsiveness to stakeholders.
- A track recordofmaintainingservice delivery and customer satisfaction within health or other service industry,in accordance withstrict regulations and standards.
Culture
We all share the same purpose at Bupa Aged Care. Helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We take pride in delivering high-quality care witha personal touch. Bupa champions a unique agile culture, one that adapts to your needs as a member of our team. Our focus is not limited to our residents but also your wellbeing and career growth. We aim to support you with tools you need to achieve a fulfilling career.
How to Apply
Click Apply to be taken to our online application process. As part of your application, you will be asked to complete pre-employment checks.
Bupa Villages and Aged Care is a NDIS approved provider. As part of the NDIS scheme, employees working within a NDIS facility, in a risk assessed role, must have a completed NDIS check. This is part of compliance and needs to be completed prior to commencement.
To learn more about working at Bupa please visit our website:https://careers.bupa.com.au
Bupa are committed to providing equal opportunity and access to employment and career pathways to First Nations peoples across Australia. We have a dedicated team that supports First Nations candidates through our recruitment process.
We aim to provide a culturally safe workplace where First Nations peoples knowledge, education and lived experience is seen as a strength. Bupa have publicly committed toa holistic approachto First Nations engagement,developmentand celebration through a partnership with Reconciliation Australia who have endorsed our second Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan (2023-2026).
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their ongoing culture and connection to lands,watersand skies.
