Home Care Worker
Job No:
S3344
Location:
Anglicare SQ - Community Aged & Disability - Toowoomba, QLD
About The Position
Anglicare’s Toowoomba Community Aged & Disability service offers a range of supports and assistance to a variety of local residents, including help at home, social inclusion and community connectedness. We are looking for people who can provide practical and emotional help to others, calling on their own real-life experiences to build rapport and relationships. Alongside a friendly, proactive manager your focus will be on supporting those with disabilities to enjoy life within a supported residential facility. We have several part time roles that will include sleep-over shifts, so flexibility is essential.
Our Home Care Workers provide personal care and support in a range of activities of daily living intended to meet the client’s defined goals. These can include hygiene, dressing and grooming, community access, social support, shopping, meal preparation, respite support and domestic assistance.
About You
To join our team, you will be dedicated, reliable and flexible, and offer the following traits:
- Passionate about working with people with particular needs and supporting them to be the best they can be
- Take pride in your work, and be comfortable maintaining, and working within, professional boundaries and guidelines
- Offer creativity, flexibility, patience and enthusiasm, and enjoy being part of a team
- Enjoy everyday living tasks including cleaning, cooking, showering and shopping
- Show sensitivity to emotional, social and spiritual needs
- Strong communication skills - both written and verbal
- Well organised, punctual, reliable and trustworthy
Qualifications will include:
- Certificate III in Individual Support, Aged Care, Disability, Community Services or equivalent
- Completion of “Assist with Medication” unit (preferred)
- Blue Card (Working with Children) with Yellow Card exemption
- First Aid Certificate with CPR
- A current National Police Certificate
- Current Queensland Driver Licence and your own, reliable vehicle
- Physically capable of meeting the requirements of the role
What We Offer
Anglicare is committed to building a highly skilled workforce, assisted by a dedicated management team. We support our staff with learning and development initiatives, an employee benefits program and progressive human resources management strategies, and are recognised as a leading employer in the non-profit sector. You will also enjoy:
- Working with a supportive team of passionate and dedicated professionals
- Flexibility of work and life balance with part time hours
- An increase in take home pay with salary packaging options
- Providing quality of life for people within your local community
- Ongoing training and support to assist with your personal and professional development
Show Your Interest
Apply now and be rewarded with a position that directly and positively influences the quality of life for our clients; working with an organisation that values your professional contribution and personal well-being. People of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island heritage are strongly encouraged to apply.
JOB NUMBER S3344
For further information please contact
Vijay Mor on 0439 354 479
Applications close Sunday 25th March 2018
Shortlisted applicants will be asked to complete a Pre-Employment Assessment that requires disclosure of pre-existing injuries, illnesses or conditions that could reasonably be aggravated by performing the duties of this position.
About Us
Anglicare Southern Queensland is a proud member of the Anglicare Australia network. We provide the support you need for the life you want in partnership with government and other support organisations in response to identified care needs throughout southeast Queensland.
For over 140 years our staff have connected with people on every step of their life path, responding with compassion, creativity, commitment and courage to the needs of the members of our community who require support.
Every day the passionate staff and volunteers of Anglicare Southern Queensland are working to respond to growing community demand for our services. Whether it is providing nursing care and domestic assistance in the home, physiotherapy to enable the return of mobility, emergency accommodation for victims of domestic violence, working with foster carers in the care of vulnerable children, a safe caring environment for the elderly, skills training for young unemployed people or parental education and counselling, Anglicare Southern Queensland is here, to offer the best quality support to enable you to live the life that you want.
We also offer a range of specialist services within indigenous, homeless, multicultural and rural and remote communities. The work of Anglicare Southern Queensland stretches from Cairns to Coolangatta, from Birdsville to Brisbane and reaches out to support to people of all ages with a variety of needs.
Anglicare Southern Queensland has a workforce of over 2500 people in Queensland across residential aged care, community care and a range of social services programs all working towards a happier, healthier community.