• Be the difference. Enjoy great rewards and benefits

  • Salary packaging to maximise your take-home pay

  • Employee well-being program with great discounts

• Permanent Position (Shifts: 13.30 - 21.06)

  • Week 1 - Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri & Mon

  • Week 2 - Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun
    
    

About the role

The core function is to complete admissions, ensuring a smooth transition for new residents into aged care, and to support the Care Manager/Admissions and Clinical Lead RN and clinical staff. This includes ensuring accurate AN-ACC classification for new residents and monitoring reclassification needs. The role also supports the Care Manager in daily staff and resource management to meet resident needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Person-Centred Philosophy and Admissions: Facilitating smooth admissions by listening to residents and families, developing safe and effective care plans, considering diverse needs, supporting informed decision-making, partnering with the Care options team, liaising with health professionals, acting as an advocate, and completing necessary assessments for AN-ACC classification.
• Health Promoting Services: Collaborating with staff to provide proactive, holistic, and person-centred care. This includes providing leadership, guidance, coaching, and mentoring to nurses and personal carers, assisting with high-priority tasks, reviewing progress notes, staying updated through email, monitoring various charts and care contracts, supporting referrals, assisting with clinically deteriorating residents, regularly reviewing and updating care plans (including 6-monthly reviews), monitoring care delivery and evidencing, assisting with wound management, being aware of fall risks, and monitoring risk management strategies.

For further details regarding the scope of the role, please refer to the position description.

About you

• Essential Qualifications: Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse with relevant postgraduate experience (3 years guideline), current First Aid Certificate (HLTAID011) & Current CPR Certificate (HLTAID009)
• Essential Experience: Previous experience as a Registered Nurse with high-level clinical skills, supervisory, leadership, and educational responsibilities in an aged care environment.
• Essential Skills: Demonstrated best practice clinical management, ability to analyse data and problem-solve, advanced clinical assessment and documentation skills, sound communication skills (including English literacy), ability to communicate with different staff levels, time management, excellent decision-making, negotiation, and problem-solving skills, physical and emotional ability to perform the job, manual handling skills, and computer skills (Google, PCS).
• Essential Knowledge: Sound understanding of health promotion and person-centred care, excellent knowledge of Aged Care Standards, knowledge of AN-ACC funding, and excellent contemporary best practice clinical knowledge in aged care.
• Personal Attributes: Commitment to SCC's Values and "Better for Life" model, ability to build positive relationships.
• Desirable Requirements: Postgraduate qualifications in gerontology, previous auditing and quality assurance experience.

About us

Southern Cross Care is one of Australia’s leading charitable aged care, health and retirement living service providers. We value the diversity in our team, live and breathe our values of Service, Courage and Compassion and offer salary packaging benefits to maximise your take-home pay.

When you work for us, we value you as an individual, care for your wellbeing and develop your skills to help you build your career. We reward creativity and provide the stability and flexibility you need. When you work for us, you work better for life.

Apply online: careers.southerncrosscare.com.au/jobs/search

Enquiries: suzelle.moolman@southerncrosscare.com.au

Applications close: 30 October 2025 at 4pm