Competency Design Lead

UnitingCare Hospitals | Fixed term (6 months) Full-Time | Level 3 Registered Nurse

Shape the future of clinical capability across UnitingCare Hospitals

Are you passionate about clinical education, workforce capability, and creating innovative systems that support safe, high-quality patient care?

UnitingCare Hospitals is seeking a Clinical Competency Design Lead to drive the design, standardisation, and implementation of clinical competency frameworks across our hospital network.

This fixed term role (6 months) role offers a unique opportunity to influence the capability of our workforce at scale, working across The Wesley Hospital, St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, and St Stephen's Hospital.

As the lead for competency design and development, you will partner with educators, clinical experts, quality leaders, and operational teams to develop sustainable, evidence-based competency systems that strengthen workforce capability, support accreditation requirements, and improve clinical assurance.

About the Role

Reporting to the Senior Education Manager, you will:

• Lead the review, consolidation, and standardisation of clinical competency frameworks across UnitingCare Hospitals.

• Design contemporary competency assessment models aligned to clinical governance, accreditation standards, organisational policy, and professional requirements.

• Embed competencies within the Grow Learning Management System, ensuring robust assessment, evidence collection, and tracking processes.

• Partner with subject matter experts, educators, and quality teams to ensure competencies are clinically relevant, practical, and sustainable.

• Drive organisation-wide adoption and implementation of competency frameworks across multiple hospital sites.

• Monitor effectiveness through workforce capability data, utilisation metrics, compliance reporting, and stakeholder feedback.

• Act as a recognised subject matter expert in competency design, assessment methodologies, and workforce capability development.

This is a highly collaborative and influential role that will shape how clinical competence is assessed, validated, and maintained across our organisation.

About You

You are an experienced clinical educator or workforce capability professional who enjoys creating systems and frameworks that improve practice at scale.

You will bring:

Essential

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse.

• Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent qualification.

• Demonstrated experience in clinical education and competency development.

• Experience leading large-scale education, capability, or change initiatives.

• Strong understanding of clinical governance, accreditation standards, and policy alignment.

• Ability to influence stakeholders across multiple sites and disciplines.

• Advanced communication, consultation, and relationship-building skills.

• Experience analysing data and evaluating program outcomes.

• Strong project coordination and implementation capability.

Highly Regarded

• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and/or postgraduate qualifications in education, leadership, or a related field.

• Experience implementing competency frameworks within Learning Management Systems, particularly Grow.

• Experience leading standardisation projects across healthcare organisations.

• Formal project management experience.

What makes a difference for you? 

• NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: Salary Packaging Explained

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance 

• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs  

• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme  

• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events  

• Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference   

• A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others 

We’d love you to be part of our UnitingCare family   

By joining our Hospitals, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 17,500 staff and 9, 000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness. 

Child safe, Child friendly 

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:  

• provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children  

• implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services 

• appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur 

• abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme  

Diversity & Inclusion   

Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here.  At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.   

Safe workplace   

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.   

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.