Neighbourhood Leader

Neighbourhood Leader - Community Care

• Newly created leadership position within Community Aged Care
• Working across North & South Burnett Regions (this position will include Regional Travel)
• Unique opportunity to manage your own neighbourhood operation
• Suit a commercially astute Health or Aged Care professional, seeking next career step
• Competitive Base Salary on offer! + 11% Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging 

Your part in our BlueCare team

As Neighbourhood Leader you will autonomously manage your neighbourhood operation. You will be responsible for providing effective leadership to your team of clinical and care employees, as well as facilitating providing quality care based on our client needs, enhancing and promoting quality of life. 

Key responsibilities include but are limited to:

• Providing Leadership and coaching to your Neighbourhood team
• Managing the day-to-day operations, ensuring quality service delivery to our clients
• Driving the growth of the local portfolio, including service enhancements to ensure care offerings are appropriate to client needs.
• Performance management of the Neighbourhood, including adhering to KPIs and reporting 
• Driving team culture and wellbeing 

What makes a difference for us? 

You’ll be an experienced leader performing within a health, community or aged care environment. You’ll be an advocate for person-centred care, leading by example through exceptional communication and customer service. You’ll bring to the role:

• Ability to provide leadership, coaching and support to your team
• Experience coordinating care provision within a large team
• Confidence to manage conflict, pressures and competing priorities
• Qualifications in a health, community service or other relevant discipline or equivalent community sector experience.

What makes a difference for you? 

With a Blue Nurses legacy dating back to 1953, BlueCare is one of Queensland’s largest and most trusted not-for-profit providers of community and in-home care, residential aged care, disability services and retirement living.

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
• 12 weeks paid parental leave in addition to the government scheme
• Access to salary packaging, meal and entertainment benefits - up to $15,900 per year tax free as well as up to $2,650 of your pre-tax income to pay for meal and entertainment benefits
• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, a wellbeing program and employee assistance program
• A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others
• 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.

Start making a difference today

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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.  

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.