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South Australia State Manager - Nursing Workforce

Lead a high-performing team. Grow key partnerships. Shape the future of healthcare workforce delivery.

Be Executive is proud to be exclusively representing Lumia Care in the recruitment of this critical role.

Lumia Care has been supporting Australians to live independently for more than 65 years. Today, we continue to evolve and grow across aged care, disability and healthcare services, delivering workforce solutions that make a genuine difference to communities and the people we support.

We're now seeking an experienced and commercially minded leader to join our Nursing Workforce division as State Manager – South Australia.

This is more than an operational leadership role. It's an opportunity to lead a critical part of our business, influence strategy, strengthen client partnerships and drive sustainable growth across the South Australian market.

Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer – Nursing Workforce, you'll play a key role in leading our state operations, ensuring exceptional service delivery, developing high-performing teams and identifying opportunities to expand our impact.

Why This Role? You'll have the opportunity to:

• Lead an established and experienced workforce team
• Partner with some of South Australia's leading healthcare providers
• Drive operational excellence and service quality
• Influence business growth and market expansion
• Join a values-driven organisation with a strong reputation and ambitious plans for the future
• Be part of a collaborative and supportive national leadership team

What You'll Be Doing
Leadership & Team Performance You'll inspire and develop a team responsible for workforce allocations, bookings and recruitment, creating a culture of accountability, collaboration and high performance.
Key responsibilities include:

• Leading, coaching and developing team members
• Driving performance against operational KPIs
• Building capability and succession within the team
• Creating an engaged and positive team culture aligned to Lumia Care values

Client Partnerships
You'll be the face of Lumia Care across South Australia, building trusted relationships and ensuring clients receive outstanding service.
This includes:

• Managing strategic client relationships
• Responding proactively to client needs and feedback
• Ensuring service delivery consistently exceeds expectations
• Identifying opportunities to strengthen and grow partnerships

Workforce & Operational Excellence
You'll oversee the end-to-end workforce function, ensuring high standards across recruitment, bookings and compliance.
Responsibilities include:

• Maintaining workforce compliance requirements
• Supporting best-practice recruitment and onboarding
• Ensuring workforce availability aligns with client demand
• Protecting and enhancing Lumia Care's reputation in the market

Growth & Commercial Performance
We're looking for someone who enjoys identifying opportunities and helping a business grow.
You'll:

• Identify opportunities to expand services and market share
• Support business development activities
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to deliver sustainable growth
• Contribute to strategic planning and operational decision-making

About You You are a confident leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys balancing people leadership, client engagement and commercial outcomes.
You may come from workforce solutions, healthcare, aged care, disability services, labour hire or another service-driven environment where operational excellence and customer relationships are critical.

You'll bring:

• Proven leadership experience managing high-performing teams
• Strong operational and workforce management capability
• Experience managing and growing client relationships
• A track record of delivering results through people
• Commercial acumen and a growth mindset
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• A commitment to delivering exceptional customer outcomes

Most importantly, you'll align with Lumia Care's values of being:
Caring. Collaborative. Responsive. Driven by Integrity.

Join Us If you're looking for a leadership role where you can genuinely influence outcomes, develop people, strengthen client partnerships and contribute to the growth of a respected healthcare organisation, we'd love to hear from you.

Contact me now for a confidential discussion.

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