Personal Carer Development Program

3 days ago

Toowoomba, Australia Lutheran Community Care Full time

**Grow your future & make a difference**

Join Lutheran Service’s paid training program in aged care**:Earn**, **learn** and **grow** with us as a **Personal Carer**.

We strive to ensure our residents feel at home in our Aged Care Facilities. Residents have their own room, and there are various common areas where they can meet to eat, socialise, or be active. This is a unique opportunity to work alongside care professionals to assist our residents with their everyday needs.

You truly are joining a team, where your workplace feels like a home away from home.

**About you**:
You’ll enjoy making every day better for our residents because you are:
**Caring** - you have a big heart

**Careful** - you take care to ensure no harm

**Cooperative** - you always pitch in and help.

**It doesn’t matter if you have not worked as a carer
- we provide the training**

**What are the benefits?**
- Paid employment under our Enterprise Agreement - the salary is above trainee and award wages, and will increase again after 3 months
- A Training Contract - that we will pay for - with a registered training provider, to get a Certificate III Individual Support (Ageing specialisation) within 12 months
- Paid time to complete the training on the job
- Our own induction, training and support program over the first year.

**Where will I be working?**

We have two residential aged care communities in **Toowoomba**, **Salem**, and **Northridge Salem**.

Salem Aged Care has been a part of the Toowoomba community since 1935 and is enriched in history as Lutheran Services’ earliest place of warmth and care. Click here for more information.

Northridge Salem provides a peaceful country lifestyle set amongst beautiful gardens and green space in historic Toowoomba and offers specialised aged care services with exceptional care and understanding. Click here for more information.

**What’s the commitment?**
- Work a minimum of 15 hours per week on a** permanent part-time contract**. If you are willing and able to work additional hours, please discuss this at your interview.
- Work a variety of shifts including mornings, afternoons, nights and weekends.
- Commit to the training and study that is delivered online via zoom virtual sessions, as well as any reading and written work required.
- You must be available to participate in a paid 5-day initial block of training from **Friday 22 September to Thursday 28 September**. There will then be 2 days of paid training per month for approximately 10 months.

**What does a Personal Carer do?**

You will provide quality care that includes:

- Providing personal, physical and emotional support to our residents
- Assisting with personal care, meals, nursing plans, and activities
- Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships within the service and members of the external health care team.

**Please complete the form below to apply.**

You don’t have to have a resume - but you can attach one if you want to. And anything else to show how great you are too

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