Personal Care Worker

RSL Care RDNS Limited; Mackay Regional; On-site; AUD 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Private health insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Gym discounts

Job summary

Bolton Clarke Group is seeking a Personal Care Worker to support residents in home and community settings. The role focuses on assisting with personal care due to frailty or disability and requires compassionate, patient handling and effective communication with families and the care team.

Responsibilities include describing changes to senior staff, maintaining hygiene routines, assisting with daily tasks, and promoting resident wellbeing through engagement and social activities.

Qualifications

• Experience providing personal care to elderly or disabled individuals.
• Cleaning experience relevant to home/community care settings.
• Police clearance or eligibility for clearance is required for the role.

Responsibilities

• Attend to personal care needs with a person-centred approach.
• Provide manual handling support and assist with daily hygiene routines.
• Monitor and report changes in residents’ conditions to senior staff.
• Maintain accurate care logs and care plans; support wellbeing and mental health.

Skills

Cleaning experience

Personal care services

Education

Certificate III in Individual Support (Disability)

Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing)

Job description

Bolton Clarke Group

Bolton Clarke Group one of Australia’s largest independent, not-for-profit providers of home care, retirement living and residential aged care, operating nationally and internationally. Bolton Clarke Residential group now has 87 Aged Care Homes across QLD, NSW, VIC, SA & WA, with the inclusion of the Allity, McKenzie & Acacia Living Group.

The Personal Care Worker is responsible for attending to the personal care needs of customers, focusing on those requiring additional assistance due to physical limitations or frailty. The role provides manual handling support, delivers activities that enhance physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development, and supervises daily hygiene routines. They report changes in customers’ physical and emotional conditions and advocate for residents’ wellbeing through effective collaboration with families and the care team.

Responsibilities

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 records clients’ vital signs and assists 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.

Maintains accurate and up-to-date records of clients’ care, including daily logs, incident reports, and care plans.

Provides emotional support and companionship to customers, engages in conversations and activities to promote mental well-being and encourages their participation in social activities.

Advocates for residents’ wellbeing and care through exceptional customer service and effective collaboration with residents, families, and the care team.

Maintains a schedule of proactive check-ins to ensure residents are comfortable and their individual needs are being addressed.

Ensures call bells and other requests by residents and families are addressed promptly and effectively.

Work Experience & Qualifications

• Prescribed: Certificate III in Individual Support (Disability)
• Preferred: Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing)
• Previous cleaning experience.
• Previous experience in providing personal care services to individuals with physical or mental disabilities, elderly or chronically ill patients is preferred.

Essential conditions

• Federal Police Clearance must be attained and declaration made of any future charges or convictions that could potentially affect your role within Bolton Clarke.
• May be required to travel intra or interstate with overnight stays (including weekends) on short notice.

Additional conditions

• Home Community Support staff require current drivers licence valid in the state or territory in which employment is based and will maintain a drivers licence during employment.

Safety and wellbeing

• Workers Take reasonable care not to place at risk the health and safety of anyone in the workplace;
• Comply with all reasonable instructions and directions given for the purpose of work health and safety;
• Assist in the development and implementation of local work health and safety procedures;
• Report all workplace hazards and incidents to the direct manager/supervisor;
• Actively participate in work health and safety training and development activities;
• In the event that a hazard is not being appropriately controlled after reporting to the line manager/supervisor, report the hazard to the safety and wellbeing advisor/representative and/or work health and safety consultant;
• Advise the line manager/supervisor where a personal medical condition, injury or disability may lead to health and safety risks, including risks to clients, co-workers or others.

About this location

A new opportunity is now available to join Bolton Clarke, Home & Community Support team.

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.

If you have any further queries, please contact Ashley Hurman ([e-mail])

We invite you to be part of a welcoming, dedicated and diverse team, and make a big difference to the lives of older Australians.