Residential Care Support Worker

2 days ago

Ballarat, Australia Aruma Full time

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- Be supported with Nationally recognised training with Aruma RTO
- $30.46- $39.26 + NFP salary packaging increasing your take home pay

**About the role**

**Key Focus Areas**
- Provide direct care within a residential setting, ensuring a safe and nurturing home-like environment and promoting positive family relationships
- You will have resilience to work within a trauma-informed framework that makes a real difference with young people who have complex needs and challenging behaviours

**Benefits**
- Casual conversion to permanent
- Regular rostered hours for permanent staff
- Access to nationally recognised training through (Certificate IV) via Aruma RTO
- Mentoring by an experienced and passionate management team
- Benefits to increase your take home pay through salary packaging
- Employee Assistance Program - a health and wellbeing benefit

**What you’ll need**
- Certificate IV in Child, Youth and Family Intervention (Residential Care), or equivalent (click here to view more details),
- Willingness to study Top Up Units Residential Care (4 Modules) through our RTO
- Valid Victorian driver’s licence
- Valid Australian working rights
- Willingness to complete a Child Safety and Personal Screening Check
- Hold (or are willing to obtain) a Working With Children Check, NDIS Worker Screening Clearance, First Aid and CPR qualifications.
- A confirmation record of COVID-19 vaccination (dose 1, 2 & booster)

**Skills and experience**
- Availability to work any rostered shifts across a 24/7 roster model, including awake nights and sleepovers
- You are passionate about supporting young people who have experienced trauma and have a disability

**Culture**

People love to work at Aruma because they get the satisfaction of knowing they are Supporting people to live a great life, the life they want, the life they choose. Aruma is also BRAVE. That's what makes us a trailblazer, being part of our team means you need to meet our BRAVE behaviours (**Bold**, **Respectful**, **Authentic**, **Value Teamwork**, **Excellent**)

**How to apply**

Follow the prompts and attach an updated cover letter and resume.
- Aruma is a Child Safe Organisation and an EEO Employer._

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