Care Worker

**Join Our Team at Uniting Caroona: Exciting Opportunities Await**

**Why Work With Us?**

**Competitive Pay**: Enjoy higher hourly rates, up to $31.24, with the added benefit of salary packaging.
**Flexible Shifts**: We offer permanent part-time and full-time hours to fit your schedule, along with casual positions.
**Variety of Roles**: Positions are available for both qualified and unqualified workers.

**About Uniting Caroona**

Nestled in the picturesque township of Goonellabah, Uniting Caroona boasts an environment filled with natural beauty. Our facility comprises four separate households, each accommodating up to 20 residents. Here, your role as a Uniting Care Worker will ensure that our community thrives, engaging in meaningful and enjoyable activities.

**Your Role**

Our Uniting Household Model empowers residential care teams to support residents in maintaining a sense of purpose and meaning in their day. As a Carer, you'll provide essential care, companionship, and emotional support, enhancing residents' independence and quality of life. We have openings at Uniting residential facilities including Jarman, Kalina, and Marima in Goonellabah, NSW.

**Flexible rosters available**: Choose from AM, PM, weekday, or weekend shifts. Permanent part-time and full-time contracts are also available. we can also consider casual positions.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Assisting with daily living activities such as showering, personal hygiene, dressing, and mealtimes
- Supporting general mobility
- Administering medication and simple wound dressings
- Handling laundry and cleaning tasks
- Facilitating community-based recreational and social activities

**Who We’re Looking For**

We're looking for adaptable, empathetic, and resourceful individuals who embody Uniting's values of compassion, respect, imagination, and boldness.

**Our Commitment to You**

At Uniting, our people are central to our mission. We foster growth and development through strong learning commitments, flexibility, excellent benefits, and a positive culture of teamwork and cooperation. Together, we aim to build a better future for the communities we serve—and for you.

**What We Offer You**:

- A rewarding career with a leading human services organisation.
- Up to $18,550 NFP salary packaging available.
- Access to our U rewards program with exclusive discounts.
- Access to Fitness Passport - Live your best life.
- A supportive, inclusive, and collaborative work environment
- A commitment to offer opportunities to grow your career
- Purchase of additional leave

**About Uniting Aged Care**

When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them.

We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people of all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a safe, inclusive, and person-centred culture. Our values—compassionate, respectful, imaginative, and bold —bring this to life every day.

Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders - past, present, and emerging - and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work.

Uniting is a Child-Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, well-being, and inclusion of children and young people.

**What to Expect**

Employment with Uniting requires:

- A National Police Check
- Reference checks
- Other pre-employment screenings

**How to Apply