Registered Nurse

Residential Aged Care | Gunnedah, NSW

📍 Location: Gunnedah, NSW
🕒 Employment Type: Full Time / Part Time / Casual
💰 Pay Rate: $57.80 per hour (base rate) + Super + Salary Packaging up to $18,900

💙 The Opportunity

At McLean Care, we’re passionate about delivering exceptional care to older Australians.
We’re seeking dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurses to join our team at Mackellar Alkira and Mackellar Apex Road Residential Aged Care facilities in Gunnedah.

While direct aged care experience is highly valued, we also welcome nurses with strong clinical foundations from other healthcare settings. Above all, we value your skills, professionalism, and person-centred approach to care.

🩺 Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and oversight to care teams

• Supervise Enrolled Nurses, Team Leaders, and Care Service Employees

• Allocate duties to ensure safe, effective, and efficient service delivery

• Champion clinical excellence and support continuous improvement initiatives

🙋‍♀️ About You

Essential Criteria:

• Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse (minimum 12 months)

• Preferably at least 12 months’ experience in Residential Aged Care

• Strong clinical knowledge and understanding of relevant aged care legislation

• Sound understanding of Aged Care Quality Standards and accreditation 

• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills

• Empathetic, respectful, and collaborative approach to care

• Flexibility to work across a variety of shifts (morning, afternoon, night)

• Current Australian driver’s licence and access to a registered/insured vehicle

🏥 About McLean Care

McLean Care is a well-respected, not-for-profit aged care provider, offering Community, Retirement, and Residential Aged Care services.
We are committed to ethical, person-centred care and fostering a supportive environment where both residents and staff thrive.

🎁 What’s in it for You

• Attractive hourly rate – $57.80 per hour (base rate)

• Sponsorship opportunities – for eligible candidates

• Relocation incentives – for eligible candidates

• Salary packaging – up to $18,900 net to increase your take-home pay

• Discount benefits – access to Blue Light Card (retail, goods & services)

• Employee support – Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Career growth – ongoing professional learning and development

🌟 Ready to Make a Difference?

If you’re a compassionate and dedicated nurse ready to make an impact in aged care, we’d love to hear from you. Join McLean Care and become part of a team that truly makes a difference every day.

📋 To be eligible, you must have the right to work in Australia and be willing to undertake a Criminal Record Check and NDIS Worker Check in accordance with the Aged Care Act 1997.