Lead Excellence in Aged Care – Assistant Director of Nursing!

Step into a senior leadership position managing nursing operations at Redland Residential Care. Drive quality, compliance, and innovation in a complex aged care environment while supporting a large, multidisciplinary team!

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About your role

As Assistant Director of Nursing, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for Redland Residential Care. You will be responsible for ensuring safe, effective, and person-centred care across four specialised units encompassing 126 beds.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading clinical and corporate governance, workforce planning, and fiscal management
• Managing service delivery and performance against state and national benchmarks
• Ensuring compliance with Aged Care Act 1997, NDIS requirements, and Medicines & Poisons Act
• Driving continuous quality improvement, clinical innovation, and change management
• Providing expert advice on models of care and operational requirements
• Building and mentoring a capable, motivated nursing workforce (approx. 150+ FTE)

About you

You are a transformational nursing leader with proven experience in residential aged care or similar complex care environments.

You bring:

• Extensive knowledge of aged care legislation, NDIS safeguards, and clinical governance
• Expertise in operational management, financial accountability, and workforce leadership
• Demonstrated ability to lead change, redesign services, and improve care outcomes
• High-level interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
• A commitment to evidence-based practice, research, and continuous improvement
• Possession of a relevant post graduate qualification (highly desirable)
• A commitment to participating in an on-call roster

What we can offer you:

• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Community and Oral Health Services:

Community and Oral Health Services deliver a broad range of quality community-based care and support services to help people improve and maintain their wellbeing and independence as well as oral health services to adults and children.

We deliver a myriad of services across Metro South including Hospital in the Home, Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease, Acute Care, Dementia Outreach, Oral Health, and specialist residential care along with delivering numerous other vital community health services.

Our services are delivered by multidisciplinary teams of nursing and allied health staff with the skills and experience to treat a full range of health needs.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 978KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MS10661817 Role Description (PDF, 494KB)
  Role Description