Wha4 - Community Support Worker, Ceduna

Description:

• Eyre and Far North Local Health Network
• Ceduna Community Health Services
• Salary: $1,128.60 - $1,140.30 per week (pro rata) - WHA4
• Ongoing Part Time (19 hours per week)

Join Ceduna Community Health Services as a Community Support Worker!

Are you passionate about making a positive difference in the lives of individuals within your community? Ceduna Community Health Services is seeking a dedicated and empathetic Community Support Worker to join our team under the innovative Consumer Directed Care model. This model empowers consumers to have greater control over their care by allowing them to make choices about the services they receive and who delivers them.

About the Role:

As a Community Support Worker with Ceduna Community Health Services, you will play a vital role in supporting aged, frail, and disabled individuals who wish to remain in their own homes or reside in a Residential Aged Care facility. Your responsibilities will include providing essential services such as personal care, cleaning, meal preparation, transport, and social support.

In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to:

• Personal Care: Assist with activities such as showering, bathing, toileting, personal hygiene, and grooming.
• Household Support: Perform tasks like vacuuming, dusting, polishing, washing floors, cooking basic meals, and minor gardening.
• Social Support: Provide transport, shopping assistance, and support with mobility or therapy services.
• Consumer Engagement: Work collaboratively with consumers, their families, and other health professionals to deliver quality care and support consumer independence.

What We're Looking For:

• Qualifications: Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing, Disability, or Home and Community).
• Experience: Previous experience in direct care services, particularly with aged, frail, or disabled individuals.
• Skills: Ability to follow detailed directions, work well in a team, and communicate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Attributes: Patience, flexibility, resilience, and a solution-focused approach. Must be dependable, reliable, and respectful toward clients, carers, family members, and colleagues.
• Knowledge: Understanding of the Consumer Directed Care model, principles of reablement, Occupational Health and Safety, and Risk Management principles.
• Commitment: A strong dedication to customer service and consumer-directed care principles, with a willingness to undertake further training and development.

About Us

With its ancient outback landscapes, boutique vineyards, oyster farms and Australia's best-kept-secret surf coast, Eyre and Far North will inspire and energise you.

The Eyre and Far North Local Health Network (EFNLHN) is responsible for the planning and delivery of hospital and health services over 337,626 square kilometres, taking in the Eyre Peninsula, western part of South Australia and north to Coober Pedy. We are one of the largest LHNs by area in Australia and communities include Ceduna, Cleve, Coober Pedy, Cowell, Cummins, Elliston, Kimba, Oodnadatta, Port Lincoln, Streaky Bay, Tumby Bay and Wudinna.

Services include acute care, medical, accident and emergency, surgery, birthing and midwifery, specialist consultancy, renal dialysis, chemotherapy, transfusions, rehabilitation, residential and community aged care, respite care, transitional care packages, Aboriginal health, mental health, allied health, community health, community nursing, palliative care, community home support packages and home modifications.

Click here to learn more about living and working in Eyre and Far North Local Health Network.

Applicant Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and appropriate immunisation requirements.

Check(s)

• DHS National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Worker Check
• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 879310

If you're ready to embrace this rewarding opportunity and help shape the future of community care in Ceduna, we want to hear from you.

Enquiries

Anne-Marie Richards
Community Services Coordinator
Phone: 0423 297 160
Email: anne-marie.richards@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date

25 February 2025, 11:55PM

Attachments

879310 WHA4 - Community Support Worker - Role Description.pdf

Australian applicant guidelines

International applicant guidelines

Flexibility Statement
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.