Personal Care Assistant - Home Care

About the role

ARRCS have a new opportunity for a Personal Care Assistant to join our Home Care Team. Based in Darwin, this full-time role will see you working 76 hours per fortnight across a rotating roster provided on a fort-nightly basis.  

Your role as Personal Care Assistant will see you travelling to our clients’ homes and providing specific allocated care, grooming, and cleaning tasks to support their independent living arrangements.

This opportunity will suit a committed person who has flexibility in their shift allocations and understands that this arrangement is flexible, set weekly shifts is not applicable.

As the ideal candidate, you will enjoy working with the elderly. You will be able to work autonomously and comfortable travelling to people’s homes to provide care services. You will have good computer skills and ability to work with phone apps to record travel, care provided and log against care plans.

Benefits of working for us: 

ARRCS is the largest Aged Care Provider in the NT - your career with us can take you all over the NT including Darwin, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine or if you relocate interstate ARRCS are a pathway to Uniting Care QLD. In addition, your remuneration package includes the following:

• 6 Weeks Annual Leave + 17.5% Leave Loading (pro-rata for part time employees)
• A 1.75% pay rise every 6 months (Jan/Jul) for the life of our Enterprise Agreement.
• Salary Packaging through CBB (Approx. an additional $6.3K PA in your wages)
• Access to 70,000 Training and Development Courses through our Learning Platform
• Access to a skilled and supportive in-house Clinical Education team.
• Benestar Employee Wellbeing & Emotional Support.

Skills & experience:

To be successful in this role, you must demonstrate the following:

• Demonstrated experience in assisting the elderly with daily living in a community or Home Care setting.
• C - Class Drivers license, reliable vehicle and full-comprehensive insurance.
• Good computer skills and ability to work with remote devices.
• Ability to manage and work within a culturally diverse team environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• An ability to undertake a range of manual handling functions related to the role.
• A current First Aid Certificate of proof of enrolment.
• A Certificate III in Aged Care, Individual Care, Disability or Home and Community Care is desirable however, not essential.

About ARRCS

Australian Regional and Remote Community Services (ARRCS) is not-for-profit aged care and community service provider that provide services including Residential Care, Community Care, NDIS, School Nutrition and Early Learning Childhood programs in the Northern Territory.

Our Vision is passionately pursuing new ways to care where people and communities flourish and lead meaningful lives. ARRCS provides regional care and support to people and their communities throughout the Northern Territory from Darwin to Docker River with our purpose is to genuinely connect with the communities we serve, and enable our clients with agency, pride and dignity.

Before applying you will need the below if successful:

• A national police check dated within 3 months of commencement.
• Evidence of Influenza Vaccination and COVID -19 Vaccination
• NDIS Workers Screening Check or a current NT Working with Children card.

Our staff and volunteers are compassionate and knowledgeable members of the local community, who are committed to providing personalised care and support.

More than a service provider, we understand that we are an important part of the regional and remote communities we work in and acknowledge our responsibility to ensure our people are connected to those communities, people and cultures.

So why not join our team today to benefit the local community that you work in!

For more information on this role, please refer to the Position Description attached, or contact our Talent Acquisition Team via 08 8982 5222 or email people@arrcs.org.au