Garden Care Support Worker

**Position: Garden Care Support Worker**

**Classification**:SCHADS Award Level 3 pp1

**Hours**: 25.5 hours per week worked Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

(8am-5pm with 1/2 hr break)

**Responsible to**: Garden Care Coordinator

This position description is not a comprehensive list of responsibilities or criteria. The
position's incumbent will be aware that the position is project based and impacted by
seasonal variations, and outcomes and activities may change over the course of the
project.

**Reporting & Organisational Context**

The Garden Care Support Worker is responsible to the Board of Directors of Canterbury
City Community Centre through the Garden Care Coordinator.

**Project Objectives**

To provide support to people over 65 residing in the Inner West and South West Sydney
planning areas and assist in their independence and wellness by providing a Lawn
Mowing, Easy Care Gardening and Garden Support service.

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**

**Essential Criteria**:
Empathy and understanding of issues impacting the frail aged, people with

disabilities and their carers.
Demonstrated experience in lawn mowing
Demonstrated ability to work well with people from all backgrounds
Demonstrated ability to coordinate job schedules, and to manage and reconcile

client fees
Demonstrated ability to maintain equipment
Punctuality and reliability
The ability to work alone or as part of a team
Certificate II or Certificate III in Horticulture or equivalent
Current First Aid Certificate or the willingness to obtain
Class C Drivers Licence
Excellent level of physical fitness and health

**Desirable Criteria**:
Cross cultural skills
Demonstrated ability to work with Volunteers
Experience with operating and maintaining a range of gardening tools, equipment

& machinery including lawnmowers, hedgers & leaf blowers
Speak a community language
Confident in the use of electronic devices to update job information
Be willing to negotiate flexible work practices.

4cs Position Description - Garden Care Part Time

**Job Demands**

Physical capabilities are required to meet the demands of the job and tasks undertaken.

The job requires manual handling and the physical capabilities include, but are not
limited to:
Kneeling and squatting
Occasional awkward postures
Lifting, pushing, or transporting of loads by wheelbarrow
Stretching and using tools at a height above your head (use of ladders not

permitted)
Exerting force through digging and shovelling
Exerting force through sawing or cutting
Reaching, bending, pushing, pulling and repetitive actions
Aerobic fitness and strength to shovel mulch into and off the ute, many times per

day
Loading, lifting and emptying buckets of mulch or garden waste
Tying, lifting and transporting bundles of green waste

**Principle Duties**

**Effective workplace relationships**
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients
Maintain effective working relationships with Centre staff and volunteers.

**Service Provision**

**Primary Duties**
Provide a high standard Gardening service to the allocated clients of Garden Care.
Maintain tools and equipment belonging or used for the service
Communicate with and collect money from Garden Care clients
Report all client issues / grievances to the Garden Care Coordinator.
Data entry using electronic device, updating service and client details
Liaising with other Garden Care staff around service appointments
Other duties relevant to the Canterbury City Community Centre Garden Care Service as

determined by Garden Care Coordinators

**Secondary Duties**

Attending Garden Care Team meetings when requested._**Financial Management**_ _**
Submit invoices or client fees to the Garden Care Coordinator
Adhere to the Centre's Financial Policy

**Other**

Adhere to the Centre's Code of Behaviour and Policies and Procedures as
contained within the Centre's Policy & Procedures manual.

Safe and competent use of gardening hand tools
Safe and competent use of electric hedger, lawn mower and whipper snipper.

Exert force to push lawn mower up ramp into ute

4cs Position Description - Garden Care Part Time