Roving Home Manager

Overview
Roving Home Manager role at Calvary Health Care — Colac, VIC.
This is a permanent, full-time position covering the Surf Coast and Northwest Victoria region.
You will provide interim leadership across homes, oversee daily operations, ensure compliance with aged care standards, maintain financial performance, and champion a high standard of resident care.
Location
Colac, VIC, Australia, 3250
Employment type: Full-time
Closing on: Sep 12, 2025
Permanent full-time opportunity.
About the Role
As a Roving Care Home Manager, you'll step into homes that need interim leadership, extra support, or guidance through periods of change.
You'll oversee daily operations, ensure compliance with aged care standards, maintain financial performance, and champion a high standard of resident care.
You'll work closely with teams to boost morale, drive quality improvements, and keep our residents at the heart of every decision.
Reporting to the General Manager, the Home Manager leads a multidisciplinary team made up of clinical and support roles that ensure a holistic approach to care within the home.
The ideal candidate will ensure that the team responds to the whole person by partnering with our residents, families and carers on a daily basis to meet the individual needs and goals of our residents.
Key Responsibilities
Work collaboratively and cooperatively with Calvary's Vision and Mission in mind, creating a culture within the home that is resident-centric and treating everyone as an individual.
Provide leadership and direction of the quality of care and experience provided across the home
Ensure appropriate assessments, care planning and case conferencing is occurring throughout the home
Ensure that Care Plans are owned by the resident and are reviewed after any significant change - implement processes to regularly gain feedback and consultation from families and carers
Oversee and monitor the preadmission and admission processes to ensure appropriate seamless transition of care into the home
Create and maintain a culture where all employees are enabling residents to make informed decisions about their care
Be aware of, and understand the home's high-risk residents or residents with complex needs including but not limited to any form of deterioration, palliation or unmet needs
About You
Current registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA - No restrictions or conditions.
Ability to build rapport and maintain solid working relationships with identified key relationships
High level of understanding of the aged care sector with the ability to identify changing trends and to ensure best practice
Clear thinker with lateral problem-solving skills.
An ability to convert complex ideas into simple, understandable and workable actions to ensure positive outcomes
Project coordination skills and experience in successfully implementing projects
Sound operational knowledge of computerised systems used within the industry as well as the ability and willingness to learn and adapt to new systems introduced into the business from time to time
Understanding of and ability to manage human resource issues with effective negotiation skills.
Why work for Calvary?
At Calvary, our staff matter.
Join our team, learn with purpose and drive positive impact in one of Australia's largest healthcare providers across Public and Private Hospitals, Residential Aged Care and Home Care.
With over 130 years' experience and 18,000 staff and volunteers, we offer an inclusive and welcoming culture where you are valued, drawing on your own strengths, identity and background alongside a team of professionals who care for our patients, residents and clients.
Your benefits
NFP salary packaging benefits, discounted health insurance and gym memberships
Paid parental leave
Professional membership to APNA, paid for by Calvary
Training, development pathways and career opportunities
Apply now to start your career in an organisation that is making a positive difference in the community.
Please note the following:
As part of the application process, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which may include, but is not limited to reference checks, work rights, criminal history check, NDIS/WWCC/WWVP checks, and a health evaluation to ensure suitability for the role
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