Personal Care Worker

Bolton Clarke; Cederberg Local Municipality; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 785,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Private health insurance

Gym discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Bolton Clarke is seeking a Personal Care Worker to assist residents with personal care, daily living activities, and wellbeing support within our aged care setting in Geelong. You will work closely with families and care teams to deliver compassionate, person-centered care.

Ideal candidates will have relevant certificates and experience in aged or disability care, with strong communication and teamwork skills.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills with residents and families.
• Ability to monitor residents' conditions and report changes.
• Ability to assist with daily living activities and hygiene.
• Understanding of age-related care and safety protocols.

Responsibilities

• Attends to personal care needs with a focus on frailty or physical limitations.
• Provides manual handling support and assistance with activities of daily living.
• Reports changes in residents’ conditions to senior staff and documents observations.
• Administers medications as prescribed and monitors patients under supervision.

Skills

Communication

Analytical thinking

Emotional intelligence

Planning and prioritisation

Customer experience

Results orientation

Education

Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing)

Tools

Medication administration

Job description

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

• 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:

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

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.