Personal care Worker

Bolton Clarke; Shire of Yarra Ranges; Sur place; AUD 55 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Generous salary packaging and not-for‑

Private health insurance

Gym discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Résumé du poste

Bolton Clarke is seeking a Personal Care Worker in Lilydale, Victoria. You will deliver personal care, support daily living activities, and work closely with families and the care team to promote residents' wellbeing.

The role emphasises manual handling, hygiene routines, and medication monitoring, with focus on compassionate, person-centred care in a not-for-profit aged care setting.

Qualifications

• Proficient in activities of daily living, person-centred practice, medication administration & monitoring.

Responsabilités

• Provide person-centred personal care and support with dignity.
• Monitor changes, report to senior staff, and assist with medications.
• Provide manual handling assistance and daily hygiene routines.
• Support residents with mobility aids and comfort.

Connaissances

Personal care

Communication

Patient safety

Formation

Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing)

Description du poste

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.

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.

About this location:

Lilydale offers the ultimate comfort and secure environment. On the picturesque shores of Lilydale Lake, there is convenient access to local shopping precincts such as Lilydale Marketplace and the scenic Lilydale Park. Families and friends to catch up ove

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.