Clinical Lead

Mercy Community Aged Care Rockhampton supports and inspires people in need to live healthy lives within inclusive communities. Providing both high & low care, our residential facilities offer a range of services and believe a big part of what we do is to help our residents flourish, knowing what is important to them and their individual needs.  

As the Clinical Lead you will support the care and service team to ensure our residents are receiving excellent care. 

$45.75 - $48.30 per hour plus penalties plus superannuation plus generous salary packaging available depending on experience 

What you'll be doing

• Carrying out comprehensive nursing assessments for individuals and groups, and formulate care plans that provide optimal quality of life for the residents
• Coordinating and monitoring the planning, implementation and evaluation of service outcomes, liaising with the broader team on care needs
• Providing leadership and support to team members, assisting with orientation of new members, identifying learning needs and providing training and development.
• Participating in the identification and implementation of continuous improvement initiative

About you:

• Registered Nurse with current AHPRA registration
• Experience with Aged Care electronic care systems
• Sound understanding of the Aged Care Accreditation standards and AN-ACC processes
• Experience working with older people and their families or representatives

Why Mercy Community

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

At Mercy Community, we support our employees to reach for opportunities both within their area of expertise as well as in a new field. Build a career with us and explore the possibilities of moving upwards into leadership roles or discover a new location across our broad geographic footprint.

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

Depending on your role, you may also be eligible:

• For annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
• To receive pay bonus’ of $500 for successful employee referrals
• To cash out or purchase annual leave and to take advantage of extra leave entitlements

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.

APPLY NOW!  Please note we may contact applicants prior to closing date so not delay in applying.

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

For any queries, please contact MCSCareers.Mailbox@mercycs.org.au.