Personal Care Assistant

Overview

Welcome to Right at Home’s Job Opportunities

Right at Home is Australia’s leading quality home care provider, caring for seniors, adults living with a disability and adults recovering from a hospital stay. There’s nothing more important than providing care for those in need, and Right at Home offers careers for Certificate III Companion Care Level Caregivers right through to Registered Nurses who provide complex medical support to our clients.

The Right at Home Mission and Values: Right at Home has a mission to ‘improve the quality of life for those we serve’. We do this by choosing the Right People, to deliver the Right Services with the Right Approach. To continue this unwavering standard of quality care, we look for people who build our culture, who are sensitive and adaptable to clients’ different personalities, cultural backgrounds, and home dynamics, and who align with our values of flexibility, approachability, accountability, collaboration and integrity.

Benefits of Becoming a Right at Home Caregiver

The foundation of becoming a successful Right at Home care worker is a deep passion for people and a commitment to providing high-quality care. In return, Right at Home provides flexibility and work security and a sense of belonging to a local, and national team. Right at Home values and supports your contribution and focuses on your career development with mentoring by experienced nurses and care managers, ongoing training, and continuous support with care manager supervision. Competitive pay, career development, a reward and recognition program and a world class team connection portal called ‘Right About You ’ which includes a wellbeing and discounts program are all part of the advantages of working for Right at Home.

Right About You

Right About You is our new employee communication, recognition, wellbeing, benefits and discounts program. The program connects, recognises and supports Right at Home people wherever and whenever we work. The program brings to life our Values and Culture with the use of eCards to recognise employees and peers doing great work. A key benefit of Right About You is to help our caregivers save money everyday, with discounts at over 400 Australian and international retailers. The best part? ALL of the discount offers can be used in conjunction with any sale prices or promotions offered by the retailer - so our caregivers save even more on things like groceries, petrol, clothing, entertainment, gadgets, appliances, travel and much more

If spending is not their thing, our caregivers click through to our wellbeing portal for tips and tricks on how to maintain a healthy balance in their life. If they are looking for some midweek meal inspiration, needing help winding down at the end of a busy day, or just looking for simple ways to move more, there are loads of videos, recipes, articles, tools and tips to support their physical, financial and mental wellbeing. Or, they click on our news stream to connect and keep up to date with their local office team mates or send them a ‘high five’ for something they did well.

As part of Right at Home’s RightPeople, we have ensured that whatever makes our caregivers tick, Right About You has it covered.

Right at Home is Australia’s leading quality home care provider, caring for seniors, adults living with a disability and adults recovering from a hospital stay. There’s nothing more important than providing care for those in need, and Right at Home offers careers for Certificate III Companion Care Level Caregivers right through to Registered Nurses who provide complex medical support to our clients.

In these trying times, we want to help and support you and your career. We want to provide you with the opportunity to serve a community who needs you right now. Right at Home stands prepared to equip you with the right training and support so you can help our most vulnerable community members, making a real difference to them while growing and thriving as a person. As a Right at Home caregiver, our mission of ‘improving the quality of life for those we serve’ becomes your mission, too.

Search and Apply Now

If our values align with yours, and you would like to experience the benefits of working for Right at Home, don’t waste another moment. Search for a job near you by clicking on the search button below. You can search by state, by selecting a Right at Home Office near you, or by selecting a job category.

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- Supervises, feeds and dresses clients, who by reason of advanced age, physical disability or mental deficiency, need supervision.
- Also assists clients with other activities that are related to the clients' independent living, and which cannot be performed by the clients alone due to health and or age limitations.

Essential Functions

Performs personal care activities that assist the client with activities of daily living which include (but are not limited to):

- Personal hygiene (assisting to bathroom or in using bedpan, bathing, care of mouth, skin and hair)
- Assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises
- Ambulation
- Eating
- Dressing
- Shaving
- Measuring and preparing special diets

The Personal Care Worker performs light housekeeping tasks that will facilitate the client’s self-care at home. These tasks include but are not limited to:

- Vacuuming, dusting, sweeping or mopping floors
- Prepares meals and snacks according to instructions.

Caregivers must spend at least 80% of their work time providing fellowship, care and protection for clients. Any general household work must be less than 20% of the caregiver's working time during each shift.

The Personal Care Worker will not perform any of the following:

- Any Nursing Procedures or medical procedures or admonishing medication
- Application of Heat by any method
- Heavy duty household cleaning (washing walls, waxing floors, windows), household repairs or maintenance, garden services

Qualifications

- Certificate III Qualification in Aged Care / Certificate III Qualification in Disability / Home and Community Care
- Right at Home recruit and train nursing students, medical students and students of social work and allied health professions as well as mature-age caregivers looking for casual employment.

Experience

- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English as needed for the job.
- The Personal Care Assistant / Personal Care Worker shall have successfully completed a written Competency Evaluation.
- Must genuinely care and have an empathetic attitude towards the care of the sick, and have the ability to deal with the demands of the job.
- Communicate effectively (written, oral and comprehension skills) as required for the job.
- Have a valid Driver’s License and fully comprehensively insured private vehicle for work or access to adequate transportation.

Working Conditions

- Primarily works in the client’s place of residence. Travel required and shift times and days may vary with client’s needs.

In-Service Training

- Participates in mandatory education and ongoing In-Service training (This requirement need not be met exclusively through Right at Home sponsored in-services programs.)

Required Documents

- Federal Police Clearance Certificate
- Ochre Card / Work with children Certificate
- First Aid / CPR
- Hand Hygiene Certificate
- Indemnity Insurance
- Driver’s License
- NDIS Worker Screening Clearance
- Certificate III Qualification in Aged Care / Certificate III Qualification in Disability / Home and Community Care
- Proof of Education (Certificates, Diplomas, Degrees, Training)
- Resume
- Three References

Preferred Skills

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

- Performs role in line with all organizational requirements in line with the Community Care Common Standards & the Community Care Charter of Rights and Responsibilities.
- Fulfils the obligations of the Companion Care/Homemaker Role.
- Establishes and maintains effective communication and harmonious working relationships.
- Updates knowledge and skills by pursuing continuing professional development.

Please Email

- Federal Police Clearance Certificate
- Ochre Card / Work with children Certificate
- Resume
- First Aid / CPR
- Proof of Education (Certificates, Diplomas, Degrees, Training)

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