As Senior Clinical Lead – Palliative Care (Seniors Communities), you’ll play a pivotal role in advancing compassionate, high‑quality palliative care across our services. You’ll be welcomed into a respectful, values‑driven community where we don’t just talk about dignity and compassion — we live them.
Your Opportunity
We are recruiting a Senior Clinical Lead – Palliative Care, a specialist clinical leadership role focused on strengthening the delivery of high‑quality palliative and end‑of‑life care across our retirement villages and home care services. This is a permanent, full‑time, multi‑site role supporting services across the Sydney region, with head office based at Macquarie Park.
As the Senior Clinical Lead – Palliative Care (Seniors Communities), you will provide specialist clinical leadership to support comfort, dignity and choice at the end of life. You will lead the development, implementation and continuous improvement of palliative care models, ensuring care aligns with best‑practice evidence, clinical governance frameworks and regulatory requirements.
Working closely with operational leaders, Registered Nurses and multidisciplinary teams, you will act as a key escalation point for complex clinical matters including symptom management, advance care planning and end‑of‑life decision‑making. Through coaching, education and reflective practice, you will build capability across teams to deliver compassionate, consistent and person‑centred palliative care, while strengthening coordination with families, general practitioners and specialist palliative care services.
This role requires a genuine passion for palliative and end‑of‑life care alongside strong clinical expertise in the field, with a commitment to supporting people, families and teams through some of life’s most important moments with compassion and clinical excellence.
With integrity and resilience, you will:
- Lead best‑practice palliative and end‑of‑life care models across Seniors Communities
- Embed evidence‑based, person‑centred approaches that support comfort, dignity and choice
- Ensure high standards of care through clinical governance, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement
- Provide expert clinical advice and decision‑making support for complex palliative care matters
- Support advance care planning and high‑quality end‑of‑life decision‑making
- Coach and mentor Registered Nurses and Care Operations Managers, building palliative care capability
- Deliver hands‑on education and reflective practice across sites
- Collaborate with leaders to align palliative care frameworks with aged care reforms and organisational governance
- Strengthen partnerships with families, GPs and specialist palliative care services
- Represent palliative care priorities in governance forums and workforce capability planning
What You’ll Bring
You are a compassionate, strategic clinical leader with deep expertise in palliative and end‑of‑life care. You bring:
- Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse
- Demonstrated experience leading palliative or end‑of‑life care practice in aged care, home care or community settings
- Proven ability to coach, mentor and develop nursing and multidisciplinary teams
- Strong clinical credibility and commitment to person‑centred, dignified end‑of‑life care
- Strategic agility and operational insight, with the ability to influence outcomes across diverse teams
- Postgraduate qualifications in palliative care, gerontology, clinical education or healthcare leadership (strongly preferred)
- Experience translating policy, regulation and reform into effective palliative care practice
Why Anglicare?
We provide meaningful opportunities and choice — both for the individuals and communities we support and the dedicated people who make it happen.
At Anglicare, you’ll enjoy the security, stability and opportunities that come with a strong, well‑established organisation that’s ready for the future. You’ll belong to a community of kind, humble and respectful people of all faiths and backgrounds.
In addition, you’ll enjoy:
- Flexible work options to support work‑life balance
- Salary packaging — up to $15,900 tax‑free income plus $2,650 for meals and entertainment
- Ongoing professional development and leadership training
- Exclusive discounts to over 400 retailers
- Employee Assistance Program and Fitness Passport with discounts to over 800 gyms
Are you ready for a career that means more?
To apply for this role, click the HERE. All applicants will receive a response.
Anglicare is as wonderfully diverse as the customers and communities we support. While we are guided by our Christian‑based values, our team includes people of all faiths and backgrounds who share our commitment to serving others. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.
Application Close Date: May 04, 2026