Uniting Care Queensland

Who are Uniting Care Queensland?

Uniting Care Queensland (UCQ) is a leading provider of health services, aged, community, and disability care in Queensland. The health and community arm of the Uniting Church of Queensland, UnitingCare operates more than 5200 residential aged care beds and provides the equivalent of 1.5 million days of care each year.

What is the size of UCQ’s mobile workforce?

The UnitingCare team also make more than 3.3 million visits to Queenslanders each year, providing the same holistic care, service and companionship that’s been its hallmark since the organisation began delivering community nursing services in 1953. The UnitingCare workforce is altruistic and community-minded; their focus is on helping others and supporting the vulnerable within the community they operate in.

In the early days, community nurses used public transport to travel to clients’ homes. Today, UnitingCare’s fleet has grown to more than 2,200 vehicles that travel 34 million kilometres each year.

What does road safety mean to UCQ?

With a fleet of 2,500 vehicles on the road we are committed to providing our drivers with the safest possible vehicles and the skills to ensure that they are safe both themselves and to the other drivers they share the road with. Uniting Care Queensland’s driver safety programs are fully integrated with our Zero Harm at Work policy reinforcing our commitment to the safety of our drivers. This commitment includes our relationship with peak bodies and centres of learning in further developing road safety initiatives that will benefit our drivers.

Supporting actions delivered by UCQ

• UCQ is a founding partner of NRSPP and attended the launch of the program on the 5 May 2014
• Mark Stephens has been on the NRSPP Steering Committee Partner from 2013 to present.
• Hosted the 18th Steering Committee at their office in Sydney on 28 March 2019 and organised.
• In 2014 produced the Uniting Care Queensland (Formerly BlueCare) – Cutting accidents and reducing insurance premiums and the supporting webinar Uniting Care Queensland – Creating A Driver Safety Culture In The Not For Profit Sector – The Challenges and Benefit
• Mark Stephens was kind enough to feature as one of the experts in the NRSPP Business-to-Business Video which was kindly developed by IAG for NRSPP to pronote the Safe Vehicle Purchasing Guide.
• The Uniting Care Queensland webinar featured as part of the 2015 Safe Working Australia Virtual Seminar Series.
• Partner of the 2015 Driver Headspace Working Group.
• Uniting Care Queensland was part of the symposium on “How organisations are minimising work-related vehicle crashes and their consequences” was recorded at ARSC2015. It featured 7 NRSPP partner organisations exploring their approach to this question and the consequences internally and externally.
• Provided industry review and insights into NRSPP’s first organisational road safety campaign What’s on your mind? No distraction
• In 2020 produced UnitingCare Queensland: Sustained safety focus and risk management reduces crashes, insurance premiums and fleet costs and the supporting webinar Uniting Care Queensland’s Road Safety Journey
• UCQ contracted Fleet Strategy to develop a number of short road safety videos which have also been shared with the NRSPP, these include:
  • One Distraction Can Ruin Your Whole Day – Chapter 1
  • One Distraction Can Ruin Your Whole Day – Chapter 2
  • One Distraction Can Ruin Your Whole Day – Chapter 3
• UCQ provide NRSPP with its driver booklet which was built off the program’s content. UCQ has provided permission NRSPP the booklet to be personalised to any of the program’s partners when they sign up.