Compliance Officer – Aged Care

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Assist operational teams in fulfilling their obligations related to aged care regulations, compliance, and quality standards.

• Provide secretariat assistance for governance committees, compliance meetings, and working groups.

• Prepare meeting agendas, document minutes, track action items, and perform follow-up activities.

• Coordinate audit, accreditation, and assurance initiatives.

• Gather evidence, engage stakeholders, organize meetings, prepare reports, and facilitate remediation.

• Maintain compliance frameworks, registers, policies, procedures, and related documentation.

• Support compliance monitoring and reporting, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.

• Assist with governance and compliance systems, including document control, risk registers, and obligation tracking.

• Implement and monitor corrective actions resulting from audits, reviews, incidents, and regulatory findings.

• Enhance compliance processes, reporting, and governance practices through ongoing improvement and innovation.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to promote safe, effective, and person-centered care.

⛳️ Requirements

• Previous experience in an administration, coordination, governance, compliance, quality, risk, or project support role.

• Familiarity with aged care, healthcare, clinical governance, regulatory compliance, accreditation, or quality management settings.

• Understanding of the Aged Care Quality Standards and the wider aged care regulatory framework.

• Excellent organizational and time management abilities.

• Capability to manage multiple priorities and adhere to deadlines.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.

• Comfortable working across various systems and reporting tools.

• Skilled in preparing reports, meeting documentation, and compliance records.

• Strong skills in stakeholder engagement.

• Ability to establish effective working relationships at all levels within the organization.

• Proactive in problem-solving, continuous improvement, and achieving high-quality outcomes.

• Must have the ability to work from any location in Australia.

🏝️ Benefits

• Permanent work-from-home arrangement.

• Full-time employment.

• Flexible working options.

• Support for inclusion, accessibility, and wellbeing.

• Adjustments or alternative formats available during recruitment or employment.

• Supportive Clinical Governance team.

• Opportunities to build expertise in a highly regulated environment.

• Meaningful work that contributes to quality, safety, and care outcomes.

• Employee networks for connection, advocacy, and allyship.

• Immunization support/encouragement, with vaccination status declaration or evidence potentially requested based on the role.