Neighbourhood Leader | BlueCare | Community Care
Employment Status: Permanent Full time
Location: Bulimba & Surrounding Areas
Remuneration: Attractive Salary + Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging (Increases your take home pay) + Allowances & Travel Reimbursement (KM’s) + Employee discounts
Leadership position within Community Aged Care
Unique opportunity to manage your own Neighbourhood operation
Suit a commercially astute Health or Aged Care professional, seeking next career step
Your part in our BlueCare Community 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 not 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
We encourage our team to be creative and enjoy themselves while contributing to our success. Come join one of the most trusted community and residential care providers in Australia.
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.
Skills Required
- Experienced leadership within a health, community, or aged care environment
- Ability to provide leadership, coaching, and support to a team
- Experience coordinating care provision within a large team
- Ability to manage conflict, pressure, and competing priorities
- Qualification in health, community services, or another relevant discipline, or equivalent community sector experience
- Commercial astuteness and experience managing operational performance, KPIs, and reporting
What We Do
UnitingCare is a not-for-profit health and community services provider operating across Queensland and the Northern Territory. Through brands including BlueCare, Lifeline, hospitals and other services, it delivers aged care, disability support, hospital and broader health care, crisis response, and community programs. Its mission is shaped by compassion and a commitment to helping people live full, dignified lives across metropolitan, regional and remote communities.
