Clinical Education Manager

People and Culture | Administration

**Clinical Education Manager| Located at our newly built Oak Flats Office**

Join a 2024 award-winning Illawarra-based organisation celebrated for Excellence in Workplace Culture, Large Business, and Business of the Year. If you're ready to use your expertise in clinical education, strategic thinking, and workforce development to shape the future of aged care, we want you on our team.

**About Warrigal**

At Warrigal, our values - Integrity, Respect, Innovation and Compassion - guide our approach and our vision is simple yet profound: to create a world where older people feel known, loved, and connected. Guided by our purpose—Enabling older people live their best lives on their terms—we're dedicated to providing dignity, community, and belonging.

We believe in creating joyful experiences, lasting memories, and a society that celebrates aging. Every team member at Warrigal contributes to this legacy, ensuring it continues to inspire generations to come.

**The opportunity**

You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the quality of care at Warrigal by shaping and driving the clinical education strategy for our staff. In this role, you'll ensure that our team is equipped with the right skills, knowledge, and career development opportunities to deliver safe, high-quality care to our customers. By promoting a culture of continuous learning and growth, you'll help position Warrigal as a leader in aged care education, ensuring our workforce is prepared to meet the evolving needs of the organisation. In this role, you'll develop and implement training programs, collaborate with external education providers, and create clear career pathways for staff at all levels. Using data and insights, you'll identify areas for improvement and lead initiatives to upskill the workforce, ultimately enhancing the care we provide to residents and customers.

Based at Warrigal Central in Oak Flats, with travel to multiple sites across NSW and ACT, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact in a values-driven, award-winning organisation.

**The benefits | Recognising your value**
- Base salary of $136k
- $146k - based on experience + packaging benefits + super
- Not For Profit salary packaging benefits - pay up to $18,550 less tax per year, meaning more money for you
- Career break schemes, additional purchased leave and more
- Commitment to on-going professional and career development
- Subsidised access to your local gym and 200+ more across the country with a Fitness Passport
- 24/7 access to mental, physical, social and financial support via the EAP

**The requirements | What it takes to do this work**

**Essential**:

- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant clinical or education field and/or significant experience in both clinical practice and education.
- Proven experience in a supervisory, management, Clinical Nurse Educator, or Learning & Development role.
- Strong critical thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead strategic education initiatives using innovative, evidence-based learning approaches aligned with adult learning principles.
- Confident and skilled in delivering training and facilitating group learning.
- Solid understanding and hands-on experience with competency-based assessment in clinical care settings.
- Extensive experience in developing and executing complex clinical education strategies and workforce development plans.
- High-level business writing skills, with the ability to prepare professional reports and documentation.
- Proven ability to manage projects effectively, ensuring timely and successful delivery.
- Current driver's licence and willingness to travel across Warrigal sites.

**What our people love about working here**:
**Leaders who value you**: It's important you feel valued. To us, this is not a one-off task. But a commitment to creating an environment where you feel seen, heard and valued - every day. Leaders and managers go out of their way to understand you, respect your opinions and hear what you have to say. This creates greater unity and collaboration with each other.

**Time for a life that matters**: We want you to feel part of our community, to have a place to belong, while respecting your life outside work. You'll have the flexibility to fit work around your needs, take career breaks and purchase extra leave to make time for the people, places and life that matters to you.

**One team, united in our purpose**: We support older people to have great lives. We put older people first in everything we do. On an everyday level, we help them age with dignity, independence, happiness and connectedness. On a big picture level, we're challenging ageist thinking in Australia. This is the Warrigal Way.

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