Lifestyle Support Worker

2 weeks ago

Keilor East, Australia cohealth Full time

**Part - Time (0.8 FTE), Ongoing**:

- **Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation**:

- **Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income**

**So why cohealth?**

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

**About the role**

cohealth's Older Persons Social Support and Respite programs offer Social Support Groups, centre-based Respite, and Flexible Respite programs to older people with low to high care needs and their carers.

The Lifestyle Support Worker provides day-to-day operational support for program planning and delivery, providing meaningful group and individual social activities designed to optimise consumers' health and well-being, build capacity, and prolong independent community living.

The Lifestyle Support Worker will work from Monday to Thursday in multiple locations including Niddrie, Flemington and Carlton.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

**Your duties include**:

- Plan and facilitate group activities to older people
- Participate in client transport, including driving the centre vehicles, inclusive of an 8-seater van
- Ability to use technology for information gathering, client management and communication
- Establish respectful professional relationships that have clear boundaries with clients, staff and partner organisations

**What cohealth offers**:

- Exciting Parental leave benefits
- cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
- Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
- Novated Leasing available
- Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
- We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)
- Certificate 3 in Aged Care or equivalent and/or Certificate 4 in Leisure and Health
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills in the planning, implementation and evaluation of Social Support and Flexible Respite programs that meet the needs of older people, people with disabilities, and people with memory impairment
- Victorian Driver's License
- Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination._

**Application Process**

**Job Types**: Part-time, Contract

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

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