Personal Care Assistant

Department of Health
Hospitals & Primary Care - Hospitals NW
Primary Health North West

Applications must be submitted by Tuesday 17 September, 2024 11:55 PM

**Position details**:
**Applications close**:

- Tuesday 17 September, 2024 11:55 PM AEST**Award/Classification**:

- Health and Human Services (Tasmanian State Service) Award, General Stream, Health Services Officers, Level 4**Salary**:

- $60,666 to $63,222 pro rata, per annum**Salary**:

- $38.22 to $39.84 per hour (incl. 25% loading)**Employment type**:

- Casual**Region**:

- North West**Location**:

- 53 McNamara St Queenstown**Job description**:

- Assist clients with a range of activities in daily living to encourage independence and quality of life**Personal Care Assistant - Casual**

**Tasmanian Health Service - West Coast District Hospital**

To be Tasmanian is to value quality over quantity. We create, preserve, and protect the unusual. With quiet confidence, with passion and perseverance, we pursue the extraordinary.

You could be a Personal Care Assistant anywhere in the world. But working on the West Coast, you’ll understand the impact you make every day. It’s an exciting and rewarding place to work and you will make a valuable contribution to a small community while enjoying the lifestyle of a rugged and remote landscape. Our remoteness helps drive a culture of invention and human connection, which feels both old fashioned andlike the only future worth pursuing. Here you’ll be spoilt for choice when it comes to breath-taking coastlines, National Parks or award-winning fresh produce - all right on your doorstep. Whether you love mountain bike riding, bush walking or exploring history, the West Coast offers so many amazing experiences.

Our West Coast District Hospital is a place where people from across the caring professions come together to serve our community members in Queenstown and the surrounding areas. Here, you are encouraged to be your authentic self, to pursue your passions, and to bring your own unique characteristics into our team.

We are small enough in Tasmania for you to shape and influence your work and make a real difference every day. Yet we are big enough for you to feel part of something important, somewhere you can belong and be surrounded by diversity, innovation, and friendships. We’ll look after you from the very beginning, ensure you are fully inducted and welcomed into our team and culture.

**The Role**: Under the supervision of a Registered Nurse, the Personal Care Assistant provides assistance to clients with a range of activities of daily living that a person would do for themselves to enhance and encourage the client’s independence and quality of life.

**Details of Appointment**:
Casual, shift-worker position, working as and when required, commencing from October 2024 for a period of 12 months.
- _Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time and part time vacancies._

**Salary**: $60,666 to $63,222 pro rata, per annum. Our Employer 11.5% superannuation contribution is on top of this amount.
- _Salary range is in accordance with Public Sector Unions Wages Agreement 2022_

**Eligibility**:
Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria:

- Current Registration to Work with Vulnerable People

Applicants should note the following criteria are desirable:

- Holds, or working towards, Certificate III in Individual Support or equivalent
- Current Driver’s Licence

The Head of the State Service has determined that the person nominated for this job is to satisfy a pre‑employment check before taking up the appointment, on promotion or transfer. The following checks are to be conducted:

- Conviction checks in the following areas:

- crimes of violence
- serious drug offences
- crimes involving dishonesty
- Identification check
- Disciplinary action in previous employment check.

**How to Apply**

You will be required to complete a Curriculum Vitae no greater than 3 pages in length and a single page cover letter that addresses your skills, experience and knowledge as it relates to the Statement of Duties.

**Please note**:

- **We do not require a separate statement addressing the selection criteria within the Statement of Duties.**:

- All attachments must be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.

**For more information**

Kerolie Boyd

Position: Nurse Unit Manager West Coast
Phone: (03) 6495 1550

**Important information**
- The Department of Health values workforce diversity and recognises the value each person offers which is shaped by their unique characteristics, background, experiences, knowledge, skills, values and perspectives._