Business Manager

**Job description**
**Business Manager***:

- Aged Care Services | Aged Care
Closing date: 26/08/2025

When you join MercyCare, you join something bigger. A community of staff that make a difference at the heart of the community. As a leading Western Australian not-for-profit provider of aged care, family, community, early learning and disability services we support people throughout life’s journey. We invest in our people by building rewarding careers, offering training and development opportunities and a values-driven culture where our people can belong and thrive.

**About the role**

Our **Rockingham** Residential Aged Care Home is seeking a dedicated Business Manager to lead a diverse team, from administration staff to cooks, ensuring everything runs smoothly so our clinical team can deliver exceptional patient care. This position offers you the chance to make impactful changes and build a culture of excellence and dedication within our organisation. This is a Permanent Part time position of 45.6 hours per fortnight.

As the Business Manager, you will inspire, coach, and mentor your team, fostering a high-performing and collaborative environment. You will work closely with the Service Manager and Clinical Nurse Manager to develop workforce plans, manage staff contracts, and ensure compliance with care minute obligations. Your role will involve implementing successful recruitment and retention strategies to meet workforce needs, along with overseeing budgets, planning, rostering, and reporting to maintain operational excellence.

We are looking for someone who thrives on challenges and is driven to achieve? If you're bored in your current role and looking for a change, this is the opportunity for you As the song goes, we don’t care who you are or where you’re from as long as you get the job done You’re a natural fixer, someone who dives in and finds solutions wherever there's a need. With strong business skills (budgets, planning, rostering, and reports), you’ll love getting to know your team and drawing out their best qualities.

**About you**

You will build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including contractors and suppliers, and participate in continuous improvement processes. While also possessing:

- Significant experience in a similar role or a Diploma in Business (or similar)
- Strong organizational, planning, and business skills
- Proven leadership and relationship-building abilities
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- National Police Clearance (obtained within the last six months)

**About the benefits**

You'll become part of an inclusive, diverse, and welcoming Western Australian organisation passionately committed to making a meaningful impact in the local community. Our MercyCare Promise is focused on ensuring our people are connected and empowered to make a positive difference in the heart of our communities**.**

**As a valued team member, you’ll also enjoy access to**:

- Not for profit Salary Packaging options up to $18,000
- Childcare discounts for your little ones
- Options to purchase additional leave
- Career Pathways, Professional Development and Training
- Comprehensive Wellbeing Program including discounted health insurance and free flu vaccinations

**To Apply**

**_At MercyCare, every person matters._**
- With our 175-year legacy extending back to the Sisters of Mercy, today we stand proud to make a positive difference in our local communities. We live by our values - respect, integrity, compassion, justice, excellence, and courage._