Aged Care Manager
What the work is
Plans, organises, directs, controls and coordinates the day-to-day operations and clinical services in community and aged care homes.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Manages and oversees the operational management of home care and aged care home services
- Controls administrative operations such as budget planning, report preparation and expenditure on supplies, equipment and services
- Develops and oversees care programs of community and aged care facilities
- Monitors adherence to policies, compliance, quality of care and clinical outcomes in aged care
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a fictional residential aged care home with about sixty residents, run by a not-for-profit. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A resident who had stopped joining in laughs her way through the garden afternoon
- A family writes to say their father was treated like a person and not a patient
- Your care team handles a hard week calmly, and you can tell they trust one another
Hard days
- A family who loves their mother, disagrees with your team and is not wrong about everything
- Funding that does not stretch as far as the care your residents deserve
- A review of the home where every small gap gets written down
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 141331, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.