Lawn And Home Maintenace Worker

Peppercorn Services is looking for motivated Lawn and Home Maintenance Workers to join our well-respected organisation.  Roles available across Greater Western Sydney (Blacktown, Hawkesbury, The Hills, Blue Mountains and Penrith regions)

Peppercorn Services is a Community Services organisation that has provided services to a wide demographic of people since 2001.  Peppercorn’s purpose is to enrich lives, through opportunities, connections, and partnerships.  Our services are underpinned by our value of trust, care, respect, agility, and continuous improvement.

About the Role

The purpose of the Lawn and Home Maintenance Worker is to provide client-centric support services to that focus on repairs or maintenance of the home and garden to improve safety, accessibility and independence within the home environment client, by minimising environmental health and safety hazards.  The support service assists people with have disability or who are ageing take care of their homes. This includes home and yard maintenance and repairs that mitigate or remove identified risks to a client’s health and safety and/or services targeted at maintaining a home environment which supports a client’s safety goals.

You will be required to:

• Carry out Lawn and garden maintenance, clean ups, gutter cleaning, pressure washing etc to ensure safe access 
• Undertake basic home repairs such as changing light bulbs, test and tagging (with training), installing smoke detectors
• Support clients to achieve their goals as per their agreed support plan to maintain home safety, 
• Maintain the access areas of the home to a safe standard that enables clients to remaining living in their homes independently.
• Minimise the risks associated with natural disasters such as bushfires and heat waves through risk management of the home environment

What you will Need (Essential Criteria)

The successful applicants will have:

• Certificate III in Horticulture or Individual Support (or willingness to commence within the first 3 months of employment)
• Experience in working with customers 
• Demonstrated competence in reversing a trailer
• Test and tag licence (or willingness to attend 1 day training to complete)
• Demonstrated ability to self organise
• Knowledge of safe use of Lawn and garden tools
• Willingness to travel around Greater Western Sydney to worksites
• Current NSW drivers’ licence and a vehicle with third party property insurance 
• A NDIS Worker Screening Check and Working with Children Check must be completed and cleared before employment may commence. These must be maintained and current throughout employment.
• Current First Aid and CPR Certificate (or willingness to obtain)

Please ensure you have attached a covering letter which addresses the essential criteria and your resume.

Please send your application to *********@peppercorn.org.au  

For more information contact 02 4587 0*** or go to our website:  www.peppercorn.org.au/work-with-us