Support Worker, Home & Community Care - Casual
Working with a leading disability services provider to support participants with their daily living in their home and within the community.
Summary about this job
Aged & Disability Support
Company: Knoxbrooke Inc
Location: Melbourne
Work type: Casual/Vacation
Salary: n\a
Phone: +61-2-7366-4674
Fax: +61-7-6804-2876
E-mail: n\a
Site: n\a
Detail information about job Support Worker, Home & Community Care - Casual. Terms and conditions vacancy
- Casual - variable hours in Melbourne’s outer-east
- Great values based culture, awesome team, work life balance
- Above award wages, salary packaging available
Knoxbrooke offers a broad range of programs and opportunities designed to meet the expressed needs of people with a disability that enhances their independence and maximises their quality of life.
Responsibilities include:
- Support participants in their showering, dressing, grooming, personal hygiene, meal preparation, meal assistance, planned shopping, (including groceries) and accompanying on chosen outings within community and recreational activities
- Administer and record participant medication correctly as per their individual's guidelines
- Domestic assistance
- Maintain log of duties undertaken (daily)
- Hours include working on weekdays, afternoons, evenings, Saturdays, Sundays, Public Holidays and sleepover shifts
- Inform the Services Coordinator of any specific participant issues from the individual themselves, their family, carers or advocates
- Follow each participant's Individual Care Plan (ICP)
- Responsible for entering a support log within Knoxbrooke's database system
- Provide immediate verbal and/or written reports of any significant changes to a participant's circumstances to the Services Coordinator and document these in the individual's participant database file
- Ensure privacy and confidentiality principles are always maintained
- Be responsible for the upkeep, maintenance and recording of all participant information and records
- Have a proactive approach in supporting participants with their Behaviours of Concern through Behaviour Support Plans
- Be an active and effective team member
- Abide by the organisations' Staff Code of Conduct Policy and Procedure
- Represent the organisation in a positive manner at all times
For enquiries or a POSITION DESCRIPTION, please e-mail [email protected]
To apply, please e-mail [email protected] and type in the subject line CASUAL SUPPORT WORKER APPLICATION and you must attach:
- A covering letter and
- Your resume
APPLICATIONS CLOSE AT 5.00PM ON MONDAY 2 JULY 2018