Employer Bio:
Our client is a respected leader in the aged care sector, dedicated to innovation and quality across their network of facilities. With a strong focus on community and sustainability, they prioritise exceptional care, employee growth, and operational excellence. This forward-thinking organisation offers a supportive environment where ambitious professionals can thrive while making a significant impact on the lives of others. Join a team where your contributions truly matter.
The Job:
This role is more than a leadership position; it’s a pivotal opportunity to influence the future of the sector. In this key position, you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of five homes, where your main objective will be to ensure the delivery of outstanding care, uphold operational excellence, and foster a people-first culture across all facilities. Your responsibilities will include maintaining high standards of service, supporting your teams, and driving sustainable growth throughout the organisation. You’ll play a crucial role in enhancing the performance, resident experience, and operational efficiency of each facility. Promoting a culture of excellence, you will encourage best-practice sharing and continuous improvement initiatives. Additionally, you will manage risks, spearhead strategic business initiatives, and identify opportunities for growth. Leading and developing a high-performing team of Facility Managers will be fundamental to your success, as will collaborating with HR to enhance recruitment, retention, and succession planning. Moreover, you will be tasked with overseeing financial and operational KPIs to ensure the success and sustainability of each facility in your portfolio.
Benefits On Offer:
This role comes with several benefits aimed at improving your work-life balance and supporting your professional development. You’ll receive birthday leave to celebrate your day off, an annual allowance for learning and development to help advance your career, regular team lunches to keep things social, and convenient on-site parking.
Culture Snapshot:
You’ll be joining a dynamic team where autonomy is not just encouraged but integral to the culture. In this environment, continuous improvement is at the core of operations, blending high standards with an open-plan office. Here, the focus is on creating a productive and positive workplace, offering a refreshing approach to professional growth and teamwork.
Skills Required:
As the ideal candidate, you’ll have tertiary qualifications in Health, Business, or a related field and bring essential skills for overseeing multiple facilities. You’ll need to be an exceptional leader, capable of mentoring and developing Facility Managers and fostering a collaborative, high-performance environment. Your strategic planning and execution skills will be key in managing business initiatives and identifying growth opportunities to enhance care quality and operational success. Operational efficiency is critical in this role. You will be expected to identify and implement process improvements to enhance service delivery and the resident experience. Strong risk management skills are necessary to ensure compliance across facilities, and financial acumen is essential to manage and meet KPIs for financial health and sustainability. Your role also involves working closely with HR to support recruitment, retention, and succession planning. You must also be dedicated to fostering a culture of continuous improvement and best practice sharing, maintaining the highest standards of care and effectiveness in the sector.
How To Be Considered:
To apply, follow the links or email [email protected] with your CV. For further information on this opportunity or if you have a disability or medical condition and require alternative access application methods or would like to discuss access requirements/ reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact Lauren Hogan on [email protected] or 0439 351 629 to discuss.
Who Are We:
Fruition Recruitment is a Geelong based, and Geelong exclusive, boutique recruitment firm that specialises in talent acquisition, executive search and talent advisory. With a reputation for providing industry leading results, Fruition works hard to provide a fresh alternative to transactional sales-driven agencies and is a business that clients love working with and candidates trust. We are working on this vacancy on behalf of our client.
Having a workforce that reflects the community we serve is important to both us, and to the businesses with which we partner. Our clients want to attract and retain people of all genders, ages, religions, disability, sexual orientation, family and caring responsibilities, and cultures including people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage. If you are interested in a position, we encourage you to apply as we celebrate the benefit that diversity brings to organisations, and to our community.
Please note though, due to the large volume of applications responses we receive to our advertised roles, we’re only able to contact shortlisted candidates. If it has been more than 7 business days since the date of your application and you haven’t heard from us but would like some specific feedback on your application, please feel free to contact us directly and we’d be happy to discuss with you.