Personal Care Worker - Terrace Gardens Aged Care - Casual
About the role
ARRCS Terrace Gardens Aged Care facility are seeking qualified and experienced Personal Care Workers to work on a casual / ad hoc basis only. Based in Darwin, NT. These roles attract a salary of $35.01 - $36.55 / hour dependent on skills and experience.
Your role as a Casual Personal Care Worker will see you employed within the facilities ‘casual worker pool’ and you will be contacted to work ad hoc shifts when required to support rostering gaps.
When working at Terrace Gardens you will be providing care and support within the facility undertaking personal care including grooming, showering, and dressing, mobility and assistance with meals in accordance with the resident’s care plans.
These roles are suited to people who have care and compassion and enjoy interacting with our residents within our facilities. You will bring previous experience in an aged care or disability support role and will have the skills and experience to complete work with respect and professionalism whilst having supervision from our facilities senior nursing staff when required. You will provide a strong work ethic whilst being able to ensure that the care and wellbeing of our residents are kept to the highest standards.
As the successful candidate, you will understand that you will be employed as a casual employee. This means that you will be available for ad hoc shifts when required and there will not be a permanent / regular roster provided to you.
Benefits of working with ARRCS:
ARRCS is the largest Aged Care Provider in the NT - your career can take you all over the NT including Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine or if you relocate interstate ARRCS are a pathway to Uniting Care QLD. Employee benefits include:
- An annual pay increase in accordance with personal performance and our current Enterprise Agreement.
- Salary Packaging through CBB.
- Access to 70,000 Training and Development Courses through our Learning Platform.
- Telus Employee Wellbeing & Emotional Support.
Skills and Experience
To be considered for this role, we would require you to demonstrate the following:
- Minimum of Certificate III or higher in Aged Care, Disability or Individual Care.
- Demonstrated experience in assisting with the activities of daily living in an Aged Care setting.
- Comfortable to be employed as a casual employee accepting ad hoc shifts only.
- Demonstrated effective and clear communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to work within a culturally diverse team environment.
- An ability to undertake a range of manual handling functions relevant to the role.
- Proof of or willing to obtain the following mandatory requirements:
- NDIS Workers Screening Check.
- National Police Check (dated within 3 months).
- Current year Flu Vaccination
About ARRCS
Australian Regional and Remote Community Services (ARRCS) is a not-for-profit aged care and community service provider that was established in July 2014. ARRCS operate residential aged care facilities and community care support programs within communities across the Northern Territory including Darwin, Alice Springs, Katherine, Tennant Creek, Mutitjulu and Docker River.
ARRCS is a service group of Uniting Care Queensland – the health and community service provider of the Uniting Church, and is supported by Blue Care – Also, part of Uniting Care Queensland and one of Australia’s leading residential and community aged care providers.
With over 750 staff across the Northern Territory, we are a true community partner, and our team members live our values of Compassion, Justice, Respect, Working Together and Leading through Learning.
For more information, please refer to the attached Position Description or please contact recruitment via people@arrcs.org.au or phone 08 8982 5200.
We strongly encourage Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to apply.