2025 - Direct Care Attendant - Aged Care Cadetship

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 889643
**Location**: - VARIOUS -, 5253 - MURRAY BRIDGE, 5259 - TAILEM BEND, 5260 - TAILEM BEND, 5264 - MENINGIE, 5302 - LAMEROO, 5304 - PINNAROO, 5307 - KAROONDA, 5330 - WAIKERIE, 5333 - LOXTON, 5341 - RENMARK, 5345 - BARMERA
**Job status**: Short Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone

**2025 - WHA3 Direct Care Attendant - Aged Care Cadetship**
- **Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network, Location Negotiable Within Region**:

- **Salary: $1,106.10 - $1,117.60 per week (pro rata) | WHA3**:

- **Temporary (up to 12 months) - both part time & full time opportunities available**
- **flexible working hours ranging from 22.8 hours minimum to 38 hours maximum per week**:

- **over a 7- day roster**
- **Locations**
- **Barmera, Karoonda, Lameroo, Loxton, Meningie, Murray Bridge, Pinnaroo, Renmark, Tailem Bend, Waikerie**

**About The Role**

**Are you looking for a fulfilling career that positively impacts the lives of others?**

Are you
- Respectful
- Motivated
- Compassionate
- Able to work well as part of a team
- Able to use your initiative
- Interested in developing your skills and knowledge

If you have answered **YES**, then you might want to consider pursuing a career in aged care as a Direct Care Attendant.

Whether you are looking to start your career in aged care or thinking of making a career change, this could be the ideal opportunity for you.

The Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network (RMCLHN) Aged Care Cadetship Program is an opportunity for individuals to work, earn and learn in an aged care environment.
- Earn a weekly wage and study towards a qualification
- Part-time and full-time opportunities available
- Receive an attractive salary of $29.11 - $29.41 per hour
- All necessary checks and clearances are paid for, saving you hundreds of dollars

This is an exciting opportunity to kick start your career in aged care. RMCLHN is offering a 12-month Aged Care Cadetship Program that will see you graduate with a nationally recognised qualification.

Direct Care Attendants enjoy the opportunity to make a difference to the wellbeing of older people and people living with a disability.

**A typical da**y** in the life of a Direct Care Attendant** may involve:

- assisting with bathing, showering, dressing, grooming and personal hygiene,
- assisting with toileting and continence management,
- helping residents/consumers move from their beds into chairs or wheelchairs with the use of mechanical aids; and
- ensuring the cleanliness and neatness of environments.

**What does the study i**nvolve?**

We have partnered with MADEC Australia to offer the Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) training program. This training will combine online and face-to-face study components to help you achieve a Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) qualification. The best part of this program is that all learning will occur during paid work hours, allowing you to earn while you learn.

On average, one day per week will be allocated for study and completing workplace and written assessments. The remaining days will be dedicated to practical on-the-job learning within the workplace.

**Want to know more?**

Join our Q&A session, where you can learn more about this exciting opportunity.

**When**: Wednesday 22nd January 2025 - Between 3:30pm to 6pm
**Where**: Tailem Bend District Hospital (Day Centre), 74 Princess Highway, Tailem Bend SA 5260
**Enquiries**:
Name: Erin Jacobs
Title: Human Resources Recruitment Coordinator
Phone: (08) 8595 2925

**Benefits**

A career in the RMCLHN offers many great lifestyle benefits, including diverse job prospects and the opportunity to fast-track your skills and career.

**Salary packaging** is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Watch a click here about what salary packaging is.

An excellent **Employee Assistance Program** offering free 24/7 access for you and your immediate family to confidential counselling support services.

Take advantage of **education and training**opportunities -** supporting you to progress your career.

**Flexible work arrangements** may be available including part-time, job sharing, compressed weeks and purchased leave — supporting you to manage work-life balance at all stages of your life.

**About RMCLHN**

The Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network (RMCLHN) and supports approximately 70,000 people living in the Riverland, and the Murray River, Lakes, and Coorong areas of South Australia, extending east to the Victorian Border.

This includes the towns and surrounds of Renmark, Paringa, Berri, Barmera, Waikerie, Loxton, Pinnaroo, Lameroo, Karoonda, Mannum, Murray Bridge, Tailem Bend, Meningie, Coonalpyn and Tintinara.

RMCLHN’s wide range of health care services include accident and emergency, day and inpatient surgery, Aboriginal Health, mental health, obstetric services, chemotherapy, renal dialysis, community a