Relieving Clinical Manager
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Relieving Clinical Manager at Bupa NZ is a permanent, full-time roving leadership role overseeing clinical care across 40 care homes and 36 retirement villages, with 40 hours/week, Monday to Friday plus on call, travel across New Zealand. You’ll lead and mentor care teams to deliver person-centred clinical care, set and monitor quality standards, drive continuous improvement, and balance commercial goals with compassionate care. Requirements include extensive aged care clinical management experience, current APC and Nursing Council registration, and strong communication. Tips: tailor your CV to show multi-site leadership, travel flexibility, on-call resilience, and tangible quality outcomes; highlight mentoring, teamwork, and success in elevating resident outcomes; apply with a concise, outcomes-focused cover letter and concrete examples.
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Description & Requirements
Relieving Clinical Manager: Be at the Heart of Aged Care!
Every day, in every way, we bring real heart to work. It is what drives us to deliver our refreshingly different person-first commitment to care. That is why we are seeking a Roving Clinical Manager for Bupa NZ. You will enrich the lives of our society’s most vulnerable and be part of an inclusive culture where you can make a difference while growing your career. With 40 care homes and 36 retirement villages across Bupa NZ, you can make a true impact.
About You
You will be a good fit for the role if your values and goals align with Bupa as a Clinical Leader:
- Provide person-centred clinical care for residents in our care homes across the country
- Ability to go into new environments and effectively lead a team of caregivers and nurses to provide the highest quality clinical care
- Customer Focus: Anticipate residents’ needs and build a culture of continuous improvement
- People Focus: Create a positive, motivated, and empowered work environment through a culture of accountability and performance within the team
- Clinical Quality Focus: Set, monitor, and manage a team to maintain high clinical standards to exceed customer expectations, and invite input from your team
- Commercial Focus: set ambitious goals and high standards, and pursue this with energy, drive, using innovation and partnership with others
This is a permanent, full time role working 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday with an on-call component. This role is a great way to see different parts of beautiful New Zealand, as you will travel the country for various lengths of time at a particular site.
Your Person-First Approach
- You will help us make a real difference through your Clinical Leadership experience, personal passion, and empathy
- Have extensive experience in aged care Clinical Management
- Hold a current APC and NZ Nursing Council Registration
- Engaged clinical leader who enjoys mentoring and supporting staff, while ensuring your team feels that their contributions are visible and valued
- Lead continuous quality improvements that achieve measurable outcomes for our residents and people
- Excellent clinical skills in adult care and ideal aged care experience
- Confident communication, interpersonal, and teamwork abilities
Extra Reasons to Belong
- Build upon your expertise and gain further experience across different aged care home sites
- Fully subsidised Southern Cross health insurance to our eligible permanent NZ employees and a discount on insurance cover for eligible family members
- Be part of a strong national and regional support network, including Clinical Managers in the region, regional quality partners, and our national clinical services improvement team to support your success in this role
- Values-led organisation that care about its people, community, and the planet
- Wellbeing discounts and advice and EAP counselling services
- Paid parental leave - in addition to standard parental leave, Bupa offers 12 weeks of paid leave for primary carers and 2 weeks for secondary carers
- Refer-a-friend programme
- Professional Development, in-house and external training and development
- Industry-competitive remuneration and benefits, national forums, and internal reward and recognition programmes
- Nursing Council-Approved PDRP
For the opportunity to join the Bupa community and to make a difference to the lives of our residents, please submit your application today – we would love to hear from you.
About Bupa
Through vision, passion, and sheer hard work, we’re one of New Zealand’s largest aged care and dementia care providers. As one of New Zealand’s leading healthcare organisations, 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.
Our Values | Ā mātou ūara
Brave | Māiatanga Caring | Manaakitanga Responsible | Haepapa
Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and therefore may result in the role closing early if the right applicant is found.