Home Care Worker

Mercy Health; Sale; On-site; AUD 52,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ongoing support from dedicated service

Job summary

Mercy Health in Australia is hiring a care assistant to support clients with daily living activities, including bathing, dressing, feeding and mobility. You will provide compassionate, patient-centered care and collaborate with the care team to monitor health status and report changes.

Requirements include an active NDIS Clearance and a Driver's Licence, along with vaccination status in line with public health orders.

Qualifications

• NDIS Clearance and Driver's License required or in progress.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients with daily activities such as bathing, dressing, grooming and toileting.
• Prepare meals and assist with feeding.
• Provide companionship and emotional support.
• Administer prescribed medications.
• Assist with mobility and exercises.
• Monitor health status and report changes to the healthcare team.

Job description

Where there's life, there's Mercy.
Where there's care, there's You.

Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be?

For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people when they need it most. Our people feel great pride in this, and they value the security and stability we offer. But it also means so much opportunity - to build on all that's gone before, to grow your impact and gain experience that's hard to find elsewhere.

At Mercy Health, it's all about taking what we have and making it better.
To do that, we need you.
Join us at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.

About the opportunity

• Assist clients with daily activities such as bathing, dressing, grooming and toileting.
• Preparing meals and assisting with feeding.
• Providing companionship and emotional support.
• Administering medication as prescribed.
• Assisting with mobility and exercises.
• Monitoring and reporting changes in health status to healthcare team.

The role offers

• Ongoing support provided by a dedicated service team.

What you'll bring

You're resilient, compassionate and have a whole lot of heart. Most importantly, you are committed to delivering exceptional patient-centred care.

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

• A current NDIS Clearance and Driver's License.
• Current proof of current influenza vaccination and other vaccination status consistent with public health orders.

Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?

Join us and make a meaningful difference in people's lives - and your career.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.

We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We're proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.