Residential Portfolio Manager

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remote type : Onsite

locations : Brisbane

time type : Full time

posted on : Posted Today

time left to apply : End Date: July 24, 2026 (30 days left to apply)

job requisition id : JR122019

Residential Portfolio Partner | BlueCare

• Employment Term: Permanent full-time opportunity
• Location: This role requires flexibility to travel and work across North Queensland, Sunshine Coast, North Brisbane, South Brisbane, and the Gold Coast. The successful candidate can be based from Sunshine Coast, North Brisbane, or South Brisbane
• Remuneration: Attractive industry salary package + Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + Penalties & Allowances

Make a meaningful difference with BlueCare

An integral part of our big-hearted BlueCare team, as a Residential Portfolio Manager you’ll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about.

About the role:

As a Residential Portfolio Partner, you’ll provide flexible leadership and operational support across a portfolio of residential aged care homes, ensuring continuity, stability and excellence in service delivery.

Working closely with the Portfolio Manager, Residential Service Managers and support teams, you’ll step into services requiring interim leadership support, assist during leadership transitions, and provide targeted operational, clinical and compliance guidance where additional expertise is needed.

Through your experience, you’ll support homes to achieve high standards of quality, safety and compliance while ensuring a positive resident experience and strong operational performance. You'll work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to drive continuous improvement, strengthen workforce capability and support sustainable occupancy and financial outcomes.

Your ability to quickly build relationships, assess priorities and adapt to different environments will be key to your success as you travel across residential homes within your portfolio.

What makes this role unique?

As a Residential Portfolio Partner, no two days are the same. You'll have the opportunity to work across a variety of residential homes, sharing your expertise, supporting service leaders, strengthening teams and helping maintain exceptional care for residents during periods of change, growth or transition.

Your leadership will play a critical role in ensuring residents continue to receive safe, person-centred care while supporting teams to succeed and thrive across the portfolio.

Role requirements:

• Demonstrated experience as a Residential Service Manager or equivalent senior leadership role within aged care or a related health sector
• Nursing qualification with current AHPRA registration
• Strong leadership capability with the ability to quickly engage, support, coach and develop teams across multiple locations
• Proven experience leading operational, clinical and compliance outcomes within residential aged care
• Strong understanding of aged care legislation, quality standards, accreditation requirements and continuous improvement practice
• Demonstrated financial and commercial acumen, including experience managing budgets, occupancy and operational performance
• Current Queensland Driver Licence and willingness to travel regularly across residential aged care homes across Queensland.
• NDIS Workers Screening Clearance or willingness to obtain
• Full, unrestricted AHPRA registration and unlimited work entitlements

Employee Benefits:

• 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
• 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 with one of the most trusted community and residential care providers in Australia to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference

BlueCare is proudly part of the UnitingCare Family, we’d love you to be too

Joining the state’s largest network of aged care workers with its over 8,000 strong, bright team in blue, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. With more than 16,500 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, you are part of something bigger. 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 & 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. For additional support and to meet our RAP Team, email [email protected]

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.

Join the UnitingCare family

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.

www.unitingcareqld.com.au

Why work with us?

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.

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