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Blue Care has been providing compassionate care to people in need for over 50 years and has grown from humble beginnings to become one of Australia’s largest providers of community health and residential aged care services. Each year we care for one in 30 Queenslanders through Blue Nursing, allied health services, respite care, disability services, residential aged care, community aged care packages, palliative care, and pastoral care and support. Blue Care provides the high quality care and is committed to being flexible and innovative in meeting client’s needs. With over 260 centres across Queensland and northern New South Wales and growing services to rural and remote communities Blue Care makes a significant contribution to the social infrastructure of Queensland.

Blue Care is one of the State’s largest non-government employers. Our dedicated and committed workforce of over 8,500 full time, part time and casual workers are employed in a wide range of occupations and professions. As a major not-for-profit organisation and an outreach of the Uniting Church in Australia, Queensland Synod, Blue Care is also assisted by over 3,000 volunteers, who generously give of their time, knowledge, and skills to make sure our clients come first.

 

Employment and Career Opportunities

Blue Care provides many career opportunities from direct care and clinical specialities to support roles and administration and management positions. We offer a dynamic and progressive approach to supporting our staff in the changing health care environment and attractive remuneration including salary packaging, a supportive work environment and ongoing education and professional development. Information on current positions is available from the Blue Care website – www.bluecare.org.au

 

Why Work for Blue Care?

 

Our staff list the major benefits of working for Blue Care as follows:

• Flexible working hours
• The organisation and its employees are respected in the community
• Staff have autonomy in the workplace
• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Working in a supportive environment
• Challenging and rewarding work which offers variety
• Advancement of skills and opportunity to further education
• Good career advancement and opportunities to broaden experience
• The organisation is a leading community health and residential aged care services provider
• Organisational philosophy aligns with personal beliefs and values
• Both the organisation and individual staff members are genuinely interested in client care
• The organisation strives to be the best

More information about Blue Care is available from our website at www.bluecare.org.au.