Clinical Manager – Residential Aged Care & Home Care (Full-time, Ongoing)

Location: Liscombe House (St Helena, VIC) + support across our Home Care and Retirement Living services

Want a role where your clinical leadership genuinely shapes how care is delivered across a whole continuum? We are looking for an experienced, values-led Clinical Manager to lead best practice nursing and care in our residential aged care home and provide clinical guidance and oversight to our Home Care team.

Who Are We?

Abound Communities, a leading not-for-profit provider of retirement living and aged care, offering a continuum of care from independent living to assisted living and residential aged care in Victoria, as well as home care. Our four villages across Victoria –St Helena, Fitzroy North, Berwick and Euroa are home to 500 older Victorians in need. We are a community based, not-for-profit organisation who put our residents and their families at the forefront of all we do.

If you want to make a real difference, apply now and become a part of our exciting journey! It really is our people and culture that set us apart, with our ongoing focus of working together as one team. 

What’s on offer

Abound Communities is focused on living our values, not just talking about them. You will find the culture at Abound Communities is one of genuine respect, support, and positive intention. Further, the successful candidate will receive:

• Attractive remuneration, plus access to the tax benefits of salary packaging and novated leasing.
• 5 weeks Annual Leave per year 
• Stability and career progression opportunities
• Professional development programs to develop your skills and capabilities
• Support from a highly trained, experienced and motivated operational team and a resident focussed Executive Team (including dedicated Executive overseeing Quality, Risk and Compliance)
• Opportunity to lead a service with strong community ties and located within a large Independent Living Village with strong connections and pathway to the residential aged care facility 
• Be part of an organisation and a team that is driven to make a difference to the lives of others

The opportunity

As our Clinical Manager, you will lead the clinical care model in residential aged care, drive compliance and quality, and uplift capability across clinical teams. You will work closely with the General Manager Residential Aged Care and step into operational leadership when required. You will also provide clinical guidance to our Home Care operations team and support clinical governance activity across retirement living.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead contemporary, compliant clinical practice and resident outcomes in residential aged care
• Drive care planning, clinical governance, audits, incident trend analysis and continuous improvement
• Build and mentor high-performing clinical teams (performance, skills uplift, annual training calendar)
• Partner with GPs, allied health and external stakeholders to strengthen resident care pathways
• Support Home Care with clinical guidance, care planning advice, quality improvement and incident review
• Contribute to organisational clinical strategy across residential, home care and retirement living

What you will bring (must-have)

We are only considering candidates who can demonstrate:

• Proven senior clinical leadership experience in a residential aged care facility (required)
• Proven experience providing clinical guidance/support to a Home Care program (required) 
• Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse
• Strong knowledge of aged care regulatory requirements, accreditation/quality standards and best practice
• A calm, confident leadership style with excellent communication, decision-making and problem-solving skills
• A genuine commitment to person-centred care and improving quality of life
• Strong computer literacy and confidence adopting/using clinical and reporting systems.
• Commitment to privacy, confidentiality and respectful, person-centred care.

Desirable

• Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Lead qualification (or willingness to attain).
• Post-registration qualifications in gerontology/advanced aged care nursing (or similar).
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.

Appointment is subject to satisfactory Police Check, required vaccinations (including COVID), maintaining right to work in Australia, and maintaining AHPRA registration.

To access the complete Position Description and learn about the remuneration package or if you have any questions regarding this position please contact Mila Hodgson, Manager People and Culture on at milah@aboundcommunities.org.au     

 To find out more about us and the wonderful work we do, please visit us at https://aboundcommunities.org.au/ 

 If this sounds like the role for you, click on APPLY NOW!

Click APPLY to submit your interest and we’ll be in touch shortly. Including a cover letter with your application addressing how you meet our selection criteria is strongly encouraged. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

Applications close on Sunday, 15 February 2026.

We will be short listing and interviewing candidates as we receive applications, so do not delay.  We look forward to hearing from you. We are not accepting applications from agencies.

Abound Communities reserves the right to remove advertising and/or commence the selection process before the application close date. Abound Communities is committed to equal opportunity