Melbourne's Facility-Focused Nursing Agency
Dedicated nursing and care staff for aged care facilities and hospitals across Melbourne and regional Victoria. Not a revolving door of strangers — a team that knows your facility.
Why Melbourne Facilities Choose Barton Care
Barton Care is a nurse-led healthcare staffing agency headquartered in Oakleigh, Melbourne. We provide registered nurses (RNs), enrolled nurses (ENs), personal care assistants (PCAs), and facility support assistants (FSAs) to aged care facilities and hospitals across Melbourne and regional Victoria.
What sets us apart from every other nursing agency in Melbourne is our facility-focused model. While most agencies treat staff as interchangeable bodies to fill shifts, we assign dedicated teams to each client facility. Your residents see familiar faces. Your staff understand your routines, your residents' preferences, and your facility's culture. The result is better care, fewer incidents, and genuine continuity.
With a team of over 600 healthcare professionals and operations spanning Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, and the ACT, Barton Care is one of Australia's largest and most trusted nursing agencies. But our roots are in Melbourne, and Melbourne remains our heartland. We work inside aged care facilities and hospitals across this city every single day — we don't just supply staff, we understand the environment they work in.
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— Melbourne's highest-rated nursing agencyComprehensive Staffing Services
From emergency backfill to permanent recruitment, we cover every staffing need your facility has.
Staff We Provide
Every healthcare professional placed by Barton Care is screened, trained, and credential-verified.
Registered Nurses (RNs)
- AHPRA-registered with current practising certificate
- Clinical governance and care plan management
- Medication administration and wound care
- Essential for aged care minutes compliance — 40 RN minutes per resident per day
Enrolled Nurses (ENs)
- AHPRA-registered under RN supervision
- Medication management and clinical observations
- Wound care, catheter care, and PEG feeding
- Critical support for RNs in both aged care and hospital settings
Personal Care Assistants (PCAs)
- Certificate III in Individual Support (or equivalent)
- Personal care, mobility assistance, and meal support
- Social engagement and daily living activities
- The largest workforce segment in residential aged care
Facility Support Assistants (FSAs)
- Food services, cleaning, and laundry operations
- Kitchen hand and hospitality-trained staff
- Food safety certified through Learn2Care
- Essential to facility operations and resident wellbeing
The Barton Care Difference
Four things that make us different from every other nursing agency in Melbourne.
Facility-Focused Model
We assign dedicated teams to your facility. Your residents see familiar faces, not a revolving door of strangers. This means better care, fewer incidents, and real continuity.
Learn2Care Certified
Every Barton Care worker completes mandatory training through our in-house eLearning platform — 27 courses across 4 care streams — before their first shift at your facility.
Staff Compliance Portal
Client facilities get real-time access to every worker's credentials, checks, and training certificates. Verify compliance instantly and generate audit-ready reports.
ReadiCare Compliance Tools
Our AI-powered compliance platform helps facilities assess themselves against the Strengthened Quality Standards, prepare for audits, and generate board-ready reports.
Every Worker Trained Through Learn2Care
Most agencies rely on self-reported credentials and hope for the best. At Barton Care, every single healthcare professional completes mandatory training through our proprietary eLearning platform, Learn2Care, before they set foot in your facility.
Learn2Care offers 27 purpose-built courses across 4 care streams — aged care, home care, NDIS, and core compliance. Mandatory modules include Code of Conduct, Elder Abuse Awareness, Infection Prevention and Control, Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) Fundamentals, Fire Safety, Food Safety, Privacy and Confidentiality, and Workplace Health and Safety.
This isn't a checkbox exercise. Learn2Care is one of the reasons leading aged care providers and hospitals across Melbourne trust Barton Care with their most important asset — the people who care for their residents and patients.
Areas We Service Across Melbourne & Victoria
From the CBD to regional centres, Barton Care supplies nursing and care staff across the entire state.
Don't see your area listed? Contact us — we likely cover it.
Licensed, Compliant & Audit-Ready
Barton Care holds Victorian Labour Hire Licence VICLHL06651, ensuring full compliance with the Labour Hire Licensing Act 2018. We are a registered NDIS provider and meet all requirements set by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission for agency staff.
Every worker we place undergoes comprehensive screening: AHPRA registration verification, National Police Checks, Working with Children Checks, vaccination records, working rights confirmation, and reference checks. All credentials are tracked in real time through our Staff Compliance Portal — accessible to client facilities 24/7.
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