Care Manager

Are you a seasoned Care Manager seeking your next leadership opportunity to drive clinical and operational excellence in a dynamic healthcare environment?

**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 our team based in Hobart, Tasmania, on a full-time basis. 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 to plan, allocate and delegate duties and facilitate the delivery of care according to documented policies and procedures. The Care Manager will contribute to the effective administration of human, material and fiscal resource management according to budgetary requirements.

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) for all aged care facilities.
- 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**:

- 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.