Care Manager

**Job: Care Manager** **Location**: Mitchell House, Morwell, Victoria **Hours**: Full-time Monday - Friday short term contract until December 2025. Are you an experienced Care Manager or Registered Nurse looking for your next opportunity to work in a dynamic leadership role, driving clinical and operational excellence? If you're driven by the desire to make a meaningful impact on the lives of residents in a residential aged care home, this key leadership role could be your perfect fit. Join our team in Morwell, Victoria and take on the responsibility of ensuring the highest quality of care for our residents. **Who we are**:As a proud not for profit organisation since 1922, Respect Aged Care serves older residents through our high standard of care and community. Our focus is on giving back to older adults by fostering communities of belonging. Headquartered on the northwest coast of Tasmania, our philosophy is: _Everyone deserves the right to a life well-lived, with dignity and respect. _Our organisation is constantly growing, with many homes and thousands of residents and employees across Victoria, New south Wales and Tasmania. Respect also has home care services in multiple states, and more than 700 units in different retirement villages and independent living communities. **The Opportunity**: We're on the lookout for a skilled and enthusiastic Care Manager to join the team at our facility in Morwell, Victoria on a full-time basis on a short term contract until December 2025. As a valued member of our dynamic clinical team, you'll be pivotal in delivering safe, competent, and contemporary clinical care to our residents. Moreover, you'll play a crucial role in providing supervision and support to registered nurses, enrolled nurses and personal carers, ensuring a resident-centric approach and high level of customer service. The Care Manager is responsible for planning, assigning, and overseeing duties, ensuring that care is delivered in accordance with established policies and procedures. In this role, you will play a key part in the efficient management of human, material, and financial resources, ensuring adherence to budgetary guidelines. The Care Manager will use their high-level clinical skills and knowledge as an experienced Registered Nurse to achieve best practice clinical standards, while providing strong leadership in a resident-focused care environment. They proactively contribute to building a workplace culture that embraces innovation and collaboration in order to support our residents to " live life as they choose". **Requirements**: **Essential**: - Successful completion of a minimum Bachelor Degree in Nursing (RN) - Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). - Minimum 3 years experience in residential aged care. - Working knowledge of the requirements of the Quality Agency Standards, Specified Care and Service Principles of the Aged Care Act, Documentation Standards, Residents Rights, Aged Care Funding Instrument and other relevant legislation, regulations and codes of practices. - Sound clinical knowledge and skills in accordance with contemporary practice. Current National Police Certificate (or ability to acquire). **Desirable**: - Previous nursing management experience. Experience and involvement in accreditation processes. **Benefits** **What we can offer you**: - Competitive remuneration and benefits, including the 15% Aged Care Work Value increase. - Attractive pay incentives, along with not-for-profit salary packaging. - The chance to engage in purposeful work within a values-driven organisation. - Long-term job security in an industry resistant to economic fluctuations. - A thriving, positive organisational culture that prioritises well-being. Abundant prospects for personal and professional growth through learning and development initiatives. **Our purpose**: To care for the elderly in our communities in an environment of respect, value, and belonging. **Our Values**: **Respect -**Treat all people with fairness and dignity **Care -** Look after and protect the elderly, and each other **Teamwork -** Encourage, cooperate, and build trust **Courage -** Do the right thing, even when it’s difficult **Integrity -** Be open, honest, and trustworthy **Innovation -** Think differently to solve problems. **Excellence -** Drive quality to continuously improve.