Personal Care Worker

Bolton Clarke; Geelong; On-site; AUD 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging benefits

Private health insurance

Gym discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Bolton Clarke is seeking a Personal Care Worker to support residents at our Geelong location. You will attend to personal care needs, assist with daily hygiene, and provide compassionate care tailored to each resident’s needs, including those with frailty or chronic conditions.

You will report changes to senior staff and collaborate with families and the care team to ensure wellbeing and person-centred support. Desirable to be studying Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing).

Qualifications

• Experience in providing personal care services to elderly or chronically ill patients.
• Proficient in activities of daily living, medication administration & monitoring.
• Excellent analytical thinking, communication, customer experience and planning skills.
• Desirable: studying Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing).

Responsibilities

• Attends to the personal care needs of customers with a focus on those requiring additional support.
• Provides manual handling assistance and daily hygiene routines.
• Reports changes in customers' conditions to senior staff and advocates for residents' wellbeing.
• Assists with medication reminders and administration as prescribed.

Skills

ADL proficiency

Medication administration

Patient care

Communication

Empathy

Education

Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing)

Job description

Bolton Clarke is Australia's largest independent, not-for-profit aged care provider shaping the future of positive ageing. With RSL Queensland and the Royal District Nursing Service at the heart of our DNA, we have been caring for Australians since 1885. Today, our exceptional teams support more than 130,000 people to live independently at home and across our 43 retirement living communities and 88 residential aged care homes. Everything we do is dedicated to enabling, celebrating and supporting older Australians to live and age positively.

About this location:

Tannoch Brae, located in St Albans Park Geelong, has been designed to ensure comfort and quality care in a home-like environment, for every resident. Our home offers an atmosphere of community and family. Residents can relax and enjoy the peaceful enclose

About the Role:

As a Personal Care Worker, you will attend to the personal care needs of customers, with a focus on those requiring additional assistance due to physical limitations or frailty. You will provide manual handling support, deliver activities to enhance the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of customers, and supervise daily hygiene routines. You will also report changes in customers' conditions to senior staff and advocate for residents' wellbeing through exceptional service and effective collaboration with families and the care team.

Responsibilities include:

• Focuses on customers and residents using person centered approach, demonstrates values of patience, empathy and listening and respects the customer's diverse and unique needs.
• Attends to the personal care needs of customers, with a focus on those requiring additional support due to specific physical limitations or frailty.
• Identifies and reports changes in customers' circumstances and capacity to more senior staff members, monitors and record clients' vital signs and assist with medication management, including reminders and administration as prescribed.
• Provides manual handling assistance to customers with daily tasks, supports customers with daily hygiene routines, including showers or baths, shaving, and nail care. Assists customers with their aids, such as applying surgical/support stockings or operating a tens machine.

About You:

To be successful in this role, our preferred candidate will have:

• Studying towards Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) is desirable.
• Previous experience in providing personal care services to individuals with physical or mental disabilities, elderly or chronically ill patients.
• Proficient in activities of daily living, person centered practice, medication administration & monitoring and providing medical and personal support and care to patients/residents.
• Excellent analytical thinking, communication, customer experience, emotional intelligence, planning and prioritisation and results orientation skills.

Why Work For Bolton Clarke:

• Excellent work/life balance with shifts that suit your personal needs
• A caring team environment with strong clinical and allied health support
• Career progression and development opportunities
• Generous salary packaging and not-for-profit tax benefits - claim up to $18,550 tax free
• Private health insurance and gym discounts
• An Employee Assistance Program for staff and family

Our commitment to diversity: At Bolton Clarke we expect our staff to respect and value differences in age, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status and family or marital status.

Appointment to this position and ongoing employment is subject to your commitment to supporting diversity and inclusion.