Support Worker – Goonellabah and Ballina

Position: Permanent Part-time, Monday to Friday
Location: Goonellabah and Ballina
Salary: $28.94 – $34.76 per hour + 99c per km and travel time

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 Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, 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 you’re part of Uniting NSW & ACT, you’re 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.

What we offer you 

• Maximum allowable salary packaging to pay less tax (additional $18,550 tax-free plus regional benefits plus parking) 
• A range of shifts to suit your lifestyle 
• A commitment to offer opportunities to grow your career  
• Discounts and cash backs programs with major retailers 
• Wellbeing programs including confidential employee assistance program available to you and your family members 
• Paid travel time and reimbursement for kilometres travelled.

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

What to expect
Please know that employment with Uniting requires:

• A National Police Check
• Valid working with Children 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.