About the Role

UnitingCare Hospitals | Fixed term (6 months) Full-Time | Level 3 Registered Nurse Shape the future of clinical capability across UnitingCare Hospitals Are you passionate about clinical education, workforce capability, and creating cutting-edge systems that support safe, high-quality patient care? UnitingCare Hospitals is seeking a Clinical Competency Design Lead to drive the design, standardisation, and implementation of clinical competency frameworks across our hospital network. This fixed term role (6 months) role offers a unique opportunity to influence the capability of our workforce at scale, working across The Wesley Hospital, St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, and St Stephen's Hospital. As the lead for competency design and development, you will partner with educators, clinical experts, quality leaders, and operational teams to develop sustainable, evidence-based competency systems that strengthen workforce capability, support accreditation requirements, and improve clinical assurance.

About the Role Reporting to the Senior Education Manager, you will: Lead the review, consolidation, and standardisation of clinical competency frameworks across UnitingCare Hospitals. Design contemporary competency assessment models aligned to clinical governance, accreditation standards, organisational policy, and professional requirements. Embed competencies within the Grow Learning Management System, ensuring robust assessment, evidence collection, and tracking processes. Partner with subject matter experts, educators, and quality teams to ensure competencies are clinically relevant, practical, and sustainable. Drive organisation-wide adoption and implementation of competency frameworks across multiple hospital sites. Monitor effectiveness through workforce capability data, utilisation metrics, compliance reporting, and stakeholder feedback. Act as a recognised subject matter expert in competency design, assessment methodologies, and workforce capability development. This is a highly collaborative and influential role that will shape how clinical competence is assessed, validated, and maintained across our organisation.

About You

You are an experienced clinical educator or workforce capability professional who enjoys creating systems and frameworks that improve practice at scale. You will bring: Essential Current registration as a Registered Nurse. Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent qualification. Demonstrated experience in clinical education and competency development. Experience leading large-scale education, capability, or change initiatives. Strong understanding of clinical governance, accreditation standards, and policy alignment. Ability to influence stakeholders across multiple sites and disciplines. Advanced communication, consultation, and relationship-building skills. Experience analysing data and evaluating program outcomes.



Robust project coordination and implementation capability. Highly Regarded Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and/or postgraduate qualifications in education, leadership, or a related field. Experience implementing competency frameworks within Learning Management Systems, particularly Grow. Experience leading standardisation projects across healthcare organisations. Formal project management experience.

What makes a difference for you?

Salary/Perks and Benefits

- NFP Salary Packaging: 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.
- Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
- 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
- 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme
- 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 to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
- A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others

We’d love you to be part of our UnitingCare family

By joining our Hospitals, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 17,500 staff and 9, 000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years. 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 and 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 is welcome 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. Safe workplace We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. 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. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare. UnitingCare 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, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital. When you join the UnitingCare family, you are part of something bigger. We are a proud not-for-profit with a compassionate and inclusive team who are committed to the work we do. People who want to make the world a little better through small moments that leave big impacts. For more than 100 years we’ve been inspired by our mission to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities. We’re on a mission to make a meaningful difference every day, working with thousands of Australians to ensure they live life in all its fullness. We want people who are great as individuals, and even better in a team. People who stand up for what is right. Who are open to new ideas. Who champion innovation. Who lead through learning, and lead by example. So, if you’re looking for an opportunity to make a meaningful difference, to grow, thrive and to be rewarded, it’s time you joined our UnitingCare familiy. UnitingCare - Join us We invite you to Introduce Yourself to assist us in finding a position that aligns with your interests and skills. Let's make a meaningful difference, together.

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📌 Competency Design Lead (Brisbane City)
🏢 UnitingCare Health
📍 Brisbane City