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- Full time
- Australian Unity, Spring Street, Melbourne VIC, Australia
Job Summary:
Home Care Service Employee
Leading Home Care Service Provider
Supported Training and Career Development
Provide Client Care and Support with Impact
Job Details:
About Us
Australian Unity is a national healthcare, financial services and retirement living organisation with $1 billion in revenues, and providing services to more than 620,000 Australians. It is a mutual organisation with over 320,000 members and employs over 6,500 staff.
The Home Care service program manages, administers and delivers in-home support services to aging clients to help them live independently, supported and empowered, within their own homes and communities.
About Your New Role
Your new role as Home Care Service Employee, will see you provide tailored personal care and domestic assistance to clients within your local community covering almost every aspect of daily life.
You will deliver a range of services and support to your clients, including the following:
Perform domestic assistance duties such as cleaning, laundry and meal preparation
Carry out tailored personal duties including showering, feeding and toileting
Where appropriate provide more complex care to high-needs clients
Provide transportation to clients
Build and maintain strong relationships within the business and with clients
Adhere to health and safety guidelines and policies to keep yourself and our clients safe.
About You
You will be passionate and empathetic to client needs and able to really develop exceptional rapport with your clients, by working hard to understand their well-being needs and to tailor your service to their care and lifestyle goals.
You will possess the following attributes, qualities and skills:
A warm, compassionate, customer focused manner
A current Australian Driver’s License and access to your own reliable vehicle
Previous experience working in Aged Care, Community Support and/or Disability Services would be highly regarded but is not essential
Experience working within a service industry with exceptional customer service skills and an attitude which ‘puts your clients first’.
A Certificate or qualification in Aged and Disability, Individual Support, Nursing or similar, either complete or in progress, would be advantageous but not essential.