AddressAre you a person who cares about the elderly in your community and wants to assist them to optimise their independence and remain connected to their community?
Mosaic Multicultural Connections (Mosaic) is growing its home care services throughout the Newcastle and Port Stephens Regions. We have multiple opportunities for permanent part-time and casual Care Support Workers to join our team and work with our diverse group of clients. If you have experience in the sector and are looking to work with a team of like-minded individuals, we have the role for you.
About the role
Our Support Workers provide direct assistance to our clients with a view to improving their quality of life at home. Common tasks in this role may include helping clients with regular daily activities such as medication, personal care, meal preparation, transport to appointments, and light domestic assistance to maintain a safe and clean environment.
To be successful in this role, you will:
- Have a commitment to making a positive difference in the life of our elderly clients;
- Be willing to travel locally between clients, and be flexible to work various shifts;
- Have genuine empathy and interest in working in a multicultural workplace;
- Hold a current driver’s licence;
- Have a reliable motor vehicle with registration and comprehensive insurance;
- Have a mobile phone with internet connectivity;
- Hold a current First Aid Certificate or be willing to undertake this qualification.
- Hold Cert III in individual support (Aged care) as a minimum requirement
- Willingness to obtain a fully vaccinated status against COVID 19 and Influenza.
- Willingness to obtain a National Police check.
We service clients across a whole range of backgrounds, so speaking another language is desirable but not essential.
Why work for us?
- Opportunity to advance your career in Support Work with on-the-job training
- Genuine career development opportunities
- Wide variety of clients from different backgrounds.
- A great place to work with like-minded individuals
- Flexible work hours
- Award rates
- Access to salary sacrifice as not for profit
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
About us
Mosaic is an independent not for profit organisation providing a range of services to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities across the Hunter, Central Coast and New England regions of NSW.
It is our mission to be the leading regional organisation providing services that strengthen and inspire people in an environment that is culturally sensitive and responsive to their needs and goals. In addition to settlement and families' services, we have a dedicated Aged Care Team that provides home care and support services in Newcastle and the Central Coast to aged people over 65 years from CALD backgrounds.
As an organisation dedicated to helping people from migrant and refugee backgrounds thrive in their lives in Australia, Mosaic strongly encourages applications from people with lived migrant and refugee experience and people with close personal and cultural connections to multicultural communities.
For further information about Mosaic, visit https://mosaicmc.org.au/.
How to Apply
If this sounds like you, click ‘Apply’ to submit your application.
