Your Care Choice - Home Support Worker

26501 - Applications open until position is filled

Located across the Latrobe Valley, Baw Baw Shire, Bass Coast, Wellington, and East Gippsland LGA's - Casual and Part-Time positions available

• Access to discounted Private Health Insurance (part time only)
• Qualified work available
• Paid kilometers travelled (all employment types) and paid travel time (part time only) between all clients
• Qualified - $28.00 - $35.00 per hour

At Latrobe Community Health Service you'll be part of a positive and passionate workplace. We're dedicated to providing you with career opportunities through work that is rewarding and meaningful within the community.

We have continued work in our community to meet the demand for both our HCP and CHSP consumers and as a result, we are after more Your Care Choice Home Support Workers to support our clients to remain living in their own homes.

As a Your Care Choice Home Support Worker you shall provide high quality domestic support, meal prep and unaccompanied shopping support, personal care and respite care. This work involves flexible roster arrangements in which the workplace is primarily the private homes of clients.

For all workers in this role, you will be paid for kilometres travelled in between shifts you have on a given day.

Our large service delivery area means that you will be able to work in the township / LGA as to which you live, which means there is not a large amount of travel!

To be successful, you will require;

• Certificate 3 in Aged Care/Home and Community Care, Cert 3 - Disability Studies (or equivalent qualification)
• Current First Aid and CPR Certificate or willingness to complete (must maintain a current CPR and First Aid Certificate during employment).
• Ability to travel across the service delivery area.
• Be physically fit to undertake the requirements of the role.
• Current Victorian Driver's Licence.
• Ownership of a registered and insured vehicle.
• Current Smartphone device.
• Latrobe Community Health Service complies with infectious disease control and immunisation requirements under legislation. This position is classified as a Health Care Worker A. Evidence of immunisation history and any mandated government vaccinations e.g. COVID 19 must be provided prior to confirmed appointment unless otherwise medically exempt (evidence of medical exemption must be supplied).

For more information please contact Lisa Robinson, Manager Your Care Choice, on 0419 366 594.

If you are interested in providing support work and live in the Bass Coast, Wellington or East Gippsland shire regions, then we want to hear from you! To see the full position description and to apply, click the Apply Now button.

We are an equal opportunity employer and therefore, we will consider all qualified applicants for employment. We are partnered with Job Access and pledged to Soldier On. We are a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and identities, LGBTIQ+ people, people with a lived experience of disability and service personnel and their families to name a few. We will make reasonable adjustments when required. We are a child safe organisation. Successful applicants will be required to obtain a satisfactory security clearance and an Employee Working with Children Check before we can make any offer of employment.