Advanced Practice Nurse for Immediate Care

Clinical Nurse | BlueCare | Mackay Aged Care Facility Employment Term: Full time or Part time

Location: Mackay Aged Care Facility

Remuneration: $59.43 – $60.70 per hour + Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + Penalties & Allowances

Your part in our BlueCare team The Clinical Nurse provides expert clinical leadership, guidance and support to care staff to ensure safe, high‑quality, resident‑centred care. The role plays a key part in complex clinical decision‑making, care planning, funding optimisation and continuous quality improvement, while ensuring care aligns with organisational values, best practice and accreditation standards.

Provide expert clinical leadership and advice in the management of complex resident care needs

Contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and review of resident care plans to promote health, wellbeing and quality of life

Support staff orientation, mentoring, clinical supervision and ongoing professional development

Promote a consultative and collaborative approach to resident care planning and quality activities

Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams, residents, families and external stakeholders

Participate in continuous quality improvement, risk management and workplace health and safety activities

Current Registered Nurse registration with AHPRA (Essential)

Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent qualification (Essential)

Extensive general nursing experience with strong clinical skills

Demonstrated experience and knowledge of the Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI)

Understanding of person‑centred, resident‑based care delivery

Intermediate computer skills and accurate clinical documentation capability

Employee Benefits: Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum

A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs

Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events

Career development opportunities With one of the most trusted community and residential care providers in Australia to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference.

BlueCare is proudly part of the UnitingCare Family, we’d love you to be too Joining the state’s largest network of aged care workers with its over 8,000 strong, bright team in blue, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. With more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, StStephen’s Hospital, and StAndrew’s War Memorial Hospital, you are part of something bigger. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.

Child safe, Child friendly UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

Provide welcoming, safe & nurturing services for children

Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services

Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur

Abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme

Diversity & Inclusion Our approach is simple–everybody iswelcome here.At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values.We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.

Commitment to Safeguarding We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. UncingCare is the second-largest Queensland employer With more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of UnitingCare, BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, StStephen’s Hospital, and StAndrew’s War Memorial Hospital. For more than 100 years we’ve been inspired by our mission to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities.

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