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Aged Care Manager resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what aged care managers actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most aged care managers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Aged Care Manager with experience leading residential aged care operations, clinical governance, and regulatory compliance. Skilled at balancing quality care, staff leadership, and financial performance across complex facilities. Known for building strong relationships with residents, families, and multidisciplinary teams while meeting Aged Care Quality Standards.
Key skills
- Operations management
- Regulatory compliance
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Aged Care Quality Standards
- AN-ACC funding and claims
- Staff leadership and rostering
- Incident management and quality improvement
- AlayaCare
- Manad
- Microsoft Excel
- Power BI
- Stakeholder and family communication
- Written communication
- Clinical governance
- Problem solving
Experience: example bullet points
- Led daily operations of a 120-bed aged care home, supervising a team of 70 clinical and support staff and coordinating care across nursing, allied health, and lifestyle services.
- Prepared the facility for three consecutive ACQSC accreditation audits, achieving full compliance with the Aged Care Quality Standards and no significant findings.
- Managed operational and clinical budgets, realigning rosters and reducing agency staffing costs noticeably while maintaining required care minutes.
- Implemented AlayaCare and Power BI dashboards to track occupancy, care minutes, and incident trends, cutting unallocated shifts from 14 per week to three within four months.
- Chaired monthly resident and family meetings, resolving 18 of 20 complaints within 10 days and improving satisfaction survey participation across the home.
Education
A bachelor degree in nursing, health management or a related field is the most common pathway, often supported by a Diploma of Leadership and Management (Aged Care) or postgraduate study in health administration.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Aged Care Quality Standards
- ACQSC
- AN-ACC
- My Aged Care
- Aged Care Act 2024
- AHPRA
- Police Check
- NDIS Worker Screening Check
- clinical governance
- care minutes
- Support at Home
- SIRS
- AlayaCare
- Manad
- Power BI
- rostering
- accreditation
- quality improvement
- resident-directed care
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.