Direct Care Worker

Posted: 02/06/2025

Closing Date: 15/06/2025

Salary: $61,913.80 - $61,913.80

Job Type: Casual

Location: St Arnaud

Job Category: Government and Defence,Health Care and Medical

**This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of community members across our region.**

**Vacancy Details**:
**Position**:

- Direct Care Worker

**Job Type**:
**Tenure**:

- Permanent

**Location**:

- St Arnaud

**Package**:

- $31.33 per hour plus superannuation

**Download Position Description**:

- Direct Care Worker

**Applications Close**:

- Sunday 15th June 2025

**About Northern Grampians Shire Council**

Northern Grampians Shire Council has a diverse employment base, across 14 worksites in the Grampians Region of Victoria. We offer flexible work arrangements, providing access to relevant training and professional development opportunities with a variety of employee benefits. We promote innovation, responsiveness, respectfulness and continuous improvement as our core values. Being a smaller organisation, we can provide you with opportunities to act in leadership roles, transition between teams and participate in a range of collaborative projects with other team members or the wider community. We provide a supportive and flexible environment that values the balance between work and our employees' personal lives.

**Why join us?**

In addition to the picturesque landscapes at our backdoor, there are many other benefits to working for our innovative and vibrant Northern Grampians Shire Council. These include:

- **Fortnightly RDO**: Enjoy a well-deserved break and rejuvenate.
- **Great Team Environment**: A safe, respectful and supportive environment to enable you to thrive. You will work with like-minded, passionate individuals who love what they do.
- **Professional Growth**: We nurture talent and provide opportunities to flourish.
- **Flexible Work Arrangements**: To support your work life balance.
- **Salary Packaging Options**: Including remote area housing allowances and novated lease vehicles
- A**ccess to Paid Leave**: including purchased leave, paid parental leave, gender affirmation leave and to respond to family violence matters
- **Employee Assistance Program**: Your well-being matters - we've got you covered.
- **Biodiversity**: Explore our Council region's varied flora and fauna

**Promote Inclusion**

Northern Grampians Shire Council is committed to promote inclusion of all children and families; we aim to establish a culture that supports:

- cultural safety for Aboriginal children by working in partnership with Aboriginal peoples and Aboriginal community controlled organisations
- cultural safety for children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds
- establishing a safe environment for children with a disability

**Position objectives**

This position is responsible for providing assistance to clients to be more independent in their own homes and the community, thereby enhancing their quality of life.

Home care services are provided which:

- Promote each client’s capacity to live as independently as possible,
- Take a person-centred approach to care, that promotes client’s wellness and active participation in the decisions about care; and
- Provides timely, flexible and targeted services that are capable of maximising each client’s independence.

**Key responsibility areas**
- Support clients to achieve and maintain wellbeing and independence as outlined in the individual support plan and in accordance with the Active Service Model.
- Responsible for the direct provision of the highest possible standard of a range of home and community care services to clients as determined by their assessed support plan including:

- Assist clients with domestic assistance household/environmental tasks in relation to personal care and support such as maintaining a safe, hygienic living environment and undertaking a range of cleaning tasks.
- Provide a range of personal care tasks which enable the clients to maintain their desired standards of personal care and hygiene, such as assistance with mobility, bathing and toileting.
- Undertake a range of personal assistance/respite tasks as determined by the assessed support plan to support client independence and social support which may include:

- Assist with meal planning and preparation.
- Undertake shopping, banking and correspondence as required.
- Escort clients to appointments or for shopping or leisure activities.
- Assist with recreational activities appropriate to client preference.
- Provide a high level of customer service that is responsive, non-judgemental and professional to clients and carers at all times.
- Monitor and report changes/concerns regarding client well-being and identified opportunities for enhancing client independence and social involvement.
- Participate in continuous improvement and staff development processes as required by the Team Leader Positive Ageing.
- Maintain professional boundaries with c