Home Care Worker

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Location:
Western NSW - Dubbo and Central West NSW
Closing:
December 9, 2024
  • Permanent Part-time Position Available! 
  • Orange, Manildra, Cudal & Surrounding Areas
  • $28.94 – $34.76 per hour + 99c per km 
  • Great employee benefits & Supportive work culture! 

 

About the Opportunity

Join us as a Uniting Home Care Worker, where you’ll play a crucial role in maintaining continuity of care for our elderly clients. Based in Orange, Manildra, Cudal or Surrounding areas, you’ll provide essential support to empower independence and enhance the quality of life for our clients in their own homes.

 

What you will be doing in this role: 

  • Help at home: Assist with housekeeping, grocery shopping, and meal preparation.
  • Transport for wellbeing: Escort clients to appointments, shopping trips, and social activities.
  • Personal Care: Support with personal hygiene, toileting, showering, dressing, meal assistance, and medication administration.

 

Who we are looking for: 

  • Previous experience in aged or community care preferred, or a strong desire to begin a career in aged care.
  • Empathetic and resourceful, embodying Uniting’s values of compassion, respect, imagination, and boldness.
  • Flexibility to accommodate the evolving needs and schedules of our clients.
  • A provisional or full Australian driving license and access to a comprehensively insured, reliable vehicle.
  • Certificate III/IV in Aged Care, Individual Support, or equivalent qualification.

 

About Uniting Aged Care: 

When your part of Uniting NSW & ACT, your part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them.

We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.

Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders – past, present, and emerging – and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work.

Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing, and inclusion of children and young people.

 

Employee Benefits! 

  • A rewarding career with a leading human services organisation.
  • Up to $18,550 NFP salary packaging available.
  • Access to our U rewards program with exclusive discounts.
  • Access to Fitness Passport – Live your best life.
  • A supportive, inclusive, and collaborative work environment
  • A commitment to offer opportunities to grow your career  
  • Purchase of additional leave

 

Click here to learn more about our great benefits: Benefits of working at Uniting 

 

What to expect? 

Please know that employment with Uniting requires:

  • A National Police Check
  • First Aid Certificate
  • Working Rights Check

 

How to apply: 
If you see yourself in this role, we’d love to hear from you. Just click on the ‘Apply now’ button, fill out your details and submit. Once you apply, we’ll keep you up to date on how your application is progressing. We encourage applications from people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

 

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December 9, 2024
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