Home & Garden Maintenance Worker

Suncare is committed to "Making People's Lives Better". We do this through providing innovative personal solutions that support people to live their life, their way. As a values-based organisation we want our staff to reflect the values that we live by:
**Innovative | Inclusive | Agile | Respectful | Authentic | Collaborative | Empathetic**
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do and the experience they enjoy is critical to the success of our organisation. Every day, Suncare employees are making a difference to real people and making people's lives better.
At Suncare, innovation plays an important role in delivering leading edge services to our customers. While we will provide training on our systems and processes, we expect our employees to embrace the technology that allows us to deliver our direct services.
**Suncare Home and Garden Maintenance Worker - what's involved in the role?**
We are currently seeking Part-Time Home and Garden Maintenance Workers to actively support the individual needs of our aged customers who are living at home, either independently or with family. The position is a minimum of 60 hours per fortnight and the hours of work are typically rostered between 7am - 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. There is flexibility to suit your availability.
You will travel to our customers homes located in the Sunshine Coast region to deliver general home and garden maintenance services. If successful you will be aligned with customers located in the suburbs where you reside, specifically we are looking for Home & Garden Workers to be located in and around the following areas:

- South Sunshine Coast | Caloundra, Landsborough & surrounds
- Central Sunshine Coast | Palmwoods, Montville & surrounds
- North Sunshine Coast | Noosa, Cooroy & surrounds.

Willingness to travel across locations may also be required.
**Key responsibilities**:
Some of your duties include but are not limited to: lawn mowing and hedge trimming, minor home repairs, water blasting, cleaning of gutters, changing light globes, cleaning air conditioning filters, cleaning windows and other duties and assistance in and around the house and garden.
You will be required to use your own suitable vehicle (UTE or car & trailer) to travel to customers homes and transport equipment in. You will be provided with Suncare maintenance equipment to complete these tasks and will be required to have an enclosed or lockable vehicle for safe storage of the equipment if needed.
**About you**:
We want our customers to have a great experience with our people, and our people need to have a great attitude, be friendly, willing to learn new things, and most importantly listen and understand what the customer wants.
You are required to be physically fit, hold an open Queensland Driver's licence and hold a First Aid and CPR certificate. We require flexibility to attend shifts with mínimal notice and you will have the ability to work with mínimal supervision.
**What can we offer**
- Comprehensive induction program
- Helpful and supportive team structure for new staff
- Smart Phone with useful apps to make working easier
- Ongoing training and development
- Suncare shirts provided
- Employee Assistance Program
- Salary packaging benefits to increase your take-home pay

As part of the recruitment process, you may be requested to undertake pre employment medical checks and background checks such as criminal history, demerit point/driving history and reference checks. It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 in accordance with the Queensland Government Health directions regarding mandatory vaccination requirements for in-home and community aged care workers.
Applicants may be requested to disclose any pre-existing illness or injury which may impact on their ability to perform the advertised role. Details are available in section 571 of the "Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003".

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