• Casual Opportunity With a Leading Not For Profit Organisation
• Dandenong and Ringwood Locations
• Flexible Working Arrangements
• Salary Packaging Benefits

Vision Australia is a leading national provider of blindness and low vision services in Australia. We work in partnership with Australians who are blind or have low vision to help them achieve the possibilities they choose in life.

We support more than 27,500 people of all ages and life stages, and circumstances. We do this through 28 Vision Australia centres in Victoria, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia; 30 clinics; and through outreach programs in the Northern Territory and Tasmania.

An exciting opportunity awaits a Home Care Packages Support Workers to join our team in operating in the suburbs of Dandenong and Ringwood.

Responsibilities

As a Home Care Packages Support Worker at Vision Australia you will:

• Assisting consumers with domestic tasks such as laundry, ironing, meal preparation, vacuuming, mopping, sweeping, dusting, bed linen changes, bath, toilet and shower cleaning and reaching up to cupboards;
• Assisting consumers with shopping, paying accounts, monitoring consumers safety and well-being, transferring consumers from chair to bed/chair and supporting consumers when unstable with mobility;
• Complying with the Care Workers Manual
• Working with the Team Leader in ensuring the client’s services are being delivered correctly and in accordance with their wishes

Requirements

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Minimum Certificate III in Aged Care (Essential)
• Specialist knowledge of Dementia Care
• Level 2 First Aid Certificate or current Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certificate, or the willingness to undertake studies to achieve this minimum
• Able to travel independently, with majority of clients around Ferntree Gully area
• Must have a commitment to supporting elderly people in their home and an understanding the importance of the HCP program

Working as part of Vision Australia you will enjoy a values based organisation with benefits including:

• Friendly values based working environments
• Generous salary packaging options
• Exciting career paths
• Exceptional professional development opportunities
• Flexible working arrangements

We’re always on the lookout for energetic, motivated people who share our values to be Person Centred, Accountable, Collaborative, Commercially Focused and Agile.

As part of Vision Australia’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and embedding a culture where staff, volunteers and clients can be themselves and feel safe, and to protecting the best interests and safety of children and vulnerable people, successful applicants will be subject to a number of pre-employment checks including criminal history and working with children.

For more information about working at Vision Australia go to www.visionaustralia.org/careers.

We encourage applications from candidates who are blind or have low vision.