About our facilityBased in beautiful Port Macquarie on the NSW mid-north coast, Uniting Mingaletta is a newly built aged care home that offers superior comfort and care. With 6 separate households, each with between 16-20 residents, including a secure Memory Support Unit for people living with dementia. Your Uniting Homemaker ensures that the community is thriving and doing things that are meaningful and enjoyable.What you'll be doing in this roleOur Uniting Household Model of care empowers our residential care teams with freedom to support our residents in ways that help them maintain a sense of meaning and purpose in their day. As a Carer in a household, you'll provide care, companionship, and emotional support to residents to help support their independence and improve their quality of life. Uniting seeks Care Workers to work at Uniting Mingaletta in Port Macquarie for varioius casual shifts. Chose from AM, PM, Weekday or Weekend Shifts.Join one of Australia's leading residential aged care service providers for a career filled with heart and purpose. We'd love to hear from you.Your care work may include:
- Providing daily living assistance with showering, personal hygiene, dressing, help at mealtimes and with general mobility
- Assisting with medication and simple wound dressings
- Laundry and cleaning and
- Supporting residents in community-based recreational and social activities.
- Ideally, you'll have a Certificate III/IV in Aged Care or Individual Support or an equivalent qualification. If you're not currently qualified and would like to be, then we can help you get there You'll have previous experience in aged or community care, or a passion to begin your career in aged care if you're studying or have recently become qualified.
- You'll be adaptable, empathetic, and resourceful and be able to live Uniting's everyday values of being compassionate, respectful, imaginative, and bold.
- A National Police Check
- Reference checks
- Other pre-employment screenings