Love leading with heart? mecwacare is looking for a dedicated and experienced Facility Manager to lead our 62-room residential aged care home, mecwacare Flora Hill, located in the vibrant regional city of Bendigo.

As Facility Manager, you'll lead the daily operations of our home, ensuring exceptional care, comfort, and lifestyle for our residents. Reporting to the Head of Service Operations, you will lead frontline teams, ensure staffing resources align with client needs, oversee the neighbourhood's financial performance, and support the resolution of client and service escalations with the Manager, Service Operations. Additionally, you will play a critical role in overseeing quality, safety and compliance within your neighbourhood, while building trusted relationships within the local community.

What you bring:

- Current and ongoing registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse (or an Allied Health qualification).
- Previous experience as a Facility Manager or in a similar leadership role within residential aged care.
- A minimum of 3 years' experience in a residential aged care setting in a clinical management role.
- Demonstrated ability to provide strong leadership, guidance, motivation, and strategic direction to employees, and create partnerships to achieve agreed objectives.
- Experience managing teams, budgets, resources, and operational performance.
- Proficient knowledge of aged care funding models, the Aged Care Quality Standards, AN-ACC documentation requirements, and relevant legislative requirements.
- Demonstrated skills in root cause analysis and implementing solution-focused improvements.
- Satisfies the ongoing requirements of Key Personnel as defined under the Aged Care Act 2024.
- Exceptional interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and negotiation skills.
- Current First Aid, CPR, and Working with Children Check (WWCC) certifications.
- Ongoing commitment to personal and career development,



with the ability to adapt to the evolving needs of the aged care industry.

Desirable

- Tertiary management and/or business qualification or working towards same.
- Extensive experience in aged and/or Residential based services.
- Experience with continuous improvement and risk management systems and processes.
- Post graduate qualification related to aged and/or Residential services.
- Advanced skills in tender preparation and writing.
- Experience with change management processes.
- Demonstrated ability to manage service growth and expansion

Why join us:

- Enjoy Not-For-Profit benefits that can help increase your take-home pay
- Relocation assistance may be considered for the successful candidate
- Access our Employee Assistance Program for extra support when you need it
- Be recognised through Board Scholarships and Employee Awards that celebrate the great work of our people
- Be part of an organisation that genuinely values work-life balance
- Work alongside like-minded people who are passionate about making a difference.

About us:
mecwacare is a leading not-for-profit organisation that has been supporting Victorians for more than 65+ years. We are a values-based, care-driven organisation that provides residential, community and in-home nursing, care and support services for the elderly and people living with a disability. mecwacare supports more than 20,000 people each week across greater Melbourne and regional Victoria. We are a rapidly growing organisation with a diverse workforce of more than 4300 employees and 500 volunteers, representing 89 nationalities and speaking 100 languages.
We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all ages, genders, abilities, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
To apply: please submit your application and attach your CV.
Apply early! This role may close sooner than the listed closing date if we find the right candidate – so if interested, please apply early.
All successful candidates must be willing to undergo and pass a National Police Check and other relevant compliance checks.

📌 Facility Manager- Bendigo (Kennington)
🏢 Mecwacare
📍 Kennington