Practice Lead – Aged Care Services

About the role

Mercy Community are on the search to find an experienced Practice Lead to join our Aged Care Services team based in Nudgee on a Permanent Full-time basis. The successful applicant will be required to travel to our Aged Care Services in Townsville and Rockhampton.

This Practice Lead is responsible for providing clinical leadership and guidance to aged care staff including playing a crucial role in developing and implementing clinical training resources, reviewing policies and procedures, promoting best practices, and supporting the delivery of exception care. 

Salary commensurate with experience plus superannuation plus salary packaging available

This role involves but not limited to -

• Support and advise staff during critical incident reviews and root cause analysis and assist in implementing recommendations
• Conduct a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for major or frequent high-risk incidents that need detailed evaluations of complex cases and collaborate with quality and governance teams to resolve issues
• Lead or support complex care discussions and facilitate practice discussions to promote reflective practice, learning, and ongoing guidance for individuals and teams
• Identify opportunities for improvement in clinical practice and contribute to the development and implementation of quality improvement initiatives

About you

As the successful applicant, you will possess -

• 5 year+ post-graduate experience
• Registered Nurse with a current APHRA registration
• Proven leadership experience including 3+ years’ experience in management role within Residential Aged Care
• Strong knowledge of aged care standards and rights
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (desirable)

Why Mercy Community

Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit that provides a wide range of services supporting families, young people, and the elderly. All our work is driven by our core values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity & Empowerment.

Being part of the Mercy Community team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as:

• Increase your take home pay through the use of generous salary packaging - up to $18,550 per annum of your salary is available as a tax-free component
• Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need – saving you up to $144 if you need both cards!
• Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services including specialised First Nations counsellors
• Free annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
• Benyfits – is an employee benefits program designed to help you save money on living costs 

We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development. This includes making sure you have access to a range of other career pathways and opportunities across Mercy.

Please note we will review applications as they are received and we may interview and appoint prior to closing date, do not delay in applying.

For any queries, please contact MCSCareers.Mailbox@mercycs.org.au. We do not accept applications via email so please ensure you apply online.

Mercy Community is a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every applicant.