Clinical Manager

About the Role

Seeking a Clinical Manager role where you can actively shape and influence the clinical direction of the care home? Make this role yours!

Welcome to ABC Stokeswood, where warmth and compassion fill every corner of our 87-Bed Care Home. Providing comfort and support across various levels of care: Rest Home, Hospital, and Dementia Care.

As the leader of our team, you'll immediately jump in and guide approximately 12 skilled nurses and 50 caregivers to provide exceptional care to every resident. Your initial assignment with be identifying your clinical teams unique needs and crafting tailored training plans. Alongside this assignment, you'll be required to pinpoint any existing risks and establish procedures to alleviate them. Your expertise in the aged care field, including its regulatory standards and compliance, will be crucial in this space.

But ABC Stokeswood is more than just clinical care. It's a community built on trust and connection, where residents, families, and our team form bonds that transcend walls. Join us in making a difference every day in this extraordinary place.

About You

You're perfect for this role because of these 4 important things about your way of managing:

- Bringing People Together: You love making everyone feel like they belong, whether they're residents, staff, families and the wider community.
- Making Residents' Lives Better: You're always doing things to keep residents healthy and happy, which means fewer trips to the hospital, better movement, and feeling mentally good.
- Helping Staff Grow: You're great at finding and teaching new staff, and you keep helping them learn and get better at their jobs.
- Making Things Better: You've made changes before to make patient care better, like implementing quality improvement initiatives, monitoring performance metrics, and implementing best practices.

Skills and Qualifications

You’ll help us make a real difference through your Clinical Leadership experience, personal passion, and empathy.

- Hold a current APC and NZ Nursing Council Registration.
- Excellent clinical skills in adult care and ideally have aged care experience.
- Passion for leading a team to mentor, develop and support others.
- Internal audit management and leading continuous quality improvements.
- Confident communication, interpersonal, and teamwork abilities.

Extra Reasons to Belong:

- Temporary Accommodation and Relocation Package on Offer.
- Fully subsidized Southern Cross health insurance to our eligible permanent NZ employees and a discount on insurance cover for eligible family members.
- Wellbeing discounts and advice, EAP counselling services, study support, and cultural leave.
- Paid parental leave - in addition to standard parental leave, ABC offers 12 weeks of paid leave for primary carers and 2 weeks for secondary carers.
- Opportunities to participate in broader quality activities aligned with the clinical services team.
- Professional Development – in-house and external training and development.
- Industry-competitive remuneration and benefits, and internal reward and recognition programmes.
- No matter who you are or where you come from, we encourage you to ‘Be You at ABC’.
- An accredited employer with Immigration NZ that values its diverse employees.

Through vision, passion, and sheer hard work, we’re now New Zealand’s largest aged care and dementia care provider. As one of New Zealand’s leading healthcare organizations, we employ more than 4,000 people: we’re brave, caring, and responsible. All united by one purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

To express your interest, please submit an online application with your CV and we’ll reach out to chat about how you can progress your career with ABC.