Home Care Worker

Help us focus on providing an independent lifestyle within their own homes in the Blue Mountains.

• Permanent Part-time, position
• Up to $33.61 per hour plus benefits
• Development opportunities and a supportive, inclusive team
• Comprehensively insured car needed

What you’ll be doing in this role

As a Uniting Home Care Worker, you will help us ensure continuity of care for our clients as you provide support and companionship for older people living in the Blue Mountains. You will empower independence and improve the quality of life for our clients in their own homes.

With a focus on supporting our clients to stay independent for as long as possible, duties and responsibilities may include:

• Help at home: housekeeping, grocery shopping or meal preparation
• Personal Care: personal hygiene, toileting, showering, dressing, helping at mealtime or with medication administration
• Transport for wellbeing: appointments or shopping trips or accompanying clients on social support activities

Qualifications and experience:

• Certificate III in Aged Care, Individual Support or equivalent  
• Similar experience providing person-centred care
• Current First Aid certificate 
• Driver’s license and access to a comprehensively insured vehicle 

At Uniting, we welcome and celebrate everyone regardless of lifestyle, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation and gender identity and proudly create a safe and inclusive environment for staff and clients.

We are bold, imaginative, respectful and compassionate.

Further to this, we offer:

• Hands-on training, development and mentoring as a leading provider
• Join an organisation that has a positive impact on our clients and the community
• Not-for-profit salary packaging entitlements
• Paid travel time and reimbursement of kilometres