Relieving Clinical Manager
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Relieving Clinical Manager at Bupa NZ is a full‑time roaming leadership role spanning nationwide travel to support care homes. You’ll embed in services for weeks or months, partnering with General Managers and clinical teams to raise care standards, strengthen compliance, and drive clinical performance while ensuring continuity for residents and staff. The package starts from $124k with accommodation and travel provided, plus development and wellbeing benefits. The ideal candidate is an experienced Clinical Manager who thrives on problem solving, change leadership, and building capability across teams, with aged care or healthcare leadership experience. To apply, submit online with your CV and examples that demonstrate impact, travel readiness, and alignment with Bupa values.
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Description & Requirements
If you're an experienced Clinical Manager who thrives on leadership, accountability, and raising clinical standards, this is an opportunity that's different from the typical care home leadership role.
Bupa New Zealand is seeking a Roaming Clinical Manager to support care homes across the country. While travel is part of the role, this position is far more than visiting different locations. You'll step into services that need strong clinical leadership, work alongside General Managers and clinical teams, maintain high standards of care, support compliance, strengthen clinical performance, and help ensure continuity for residents and staff.
Unlike short-term relief positions, you'll have the opportunity to become embedded within a care home for a meaningful period. Depending on the needs of the service, you may support a home for several weeks or a few months, giving you the time to build relationships, understand the team, implement improvements, and see the impact of your leadership firsthand before moving on to your next assignment.
This role will suit someone who enjoys solving problems, building capability within teams, and confidently leading clinical services through periods of change or transition. We are also interested in speaking with experienced healthcare leaders from other sectors who have previous aged care experience and are looking for a more rewarding opportunity where their leadership has a visible and lasting impact.
With a starting salary from $124,000, accommodation and travel covered, and the opportunity to contribute across multiple communities throughout New Zealand, this is a unique role for a genuine clinical leader who wants both purpose and variety in their work.
Extra Reasons to Belong:
- 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.
- Wellbeing discounts and advice, EAP counselling services, study support, and cultural leave.
- 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
- No matter who you are or where you come from, we encourage you to ‘Be You’ at Bupa.
- An accredited employer with Immigration NZ that values its diverse employees.
Through vision, passion, and sheer hard work, we are now New Zealands largest aged care and dementia care provider. As one of New Zealands leading healthcare organisations, we employ more than 4,000 people: we are brave, caring, and responsible. All united by one purpose, helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
To express your interest, please submit an online application with your CV and we will reach out to chat about how you can progress your career with Bupa.
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