Key Responsibilities

• Supporting individuals in their own home or community
• Managing bookings and appointments
• Organizing paperwork
• Accompanying to educational, training, work, social, physical, or volunteering activities
• Using community services
• Accompanying with shopping
• Supporting family and personal relationships
• Supporting with childcare responsibilities
• Household cleaning and maintaining a safe home environment
• Medication monitoring and prompting
• Assistance with dressing, meal preparation, eating, drinking, washing, showering, and personal care (not all clients require all these tasks)

Skills and Expertise

• Good listening and communication skills
• Basic literacy and numeracy skills
• Experience working with disabled or vulnerable people
• Respectful and compassionate care
• Reliability and time management skills
• Punctuality
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Training in assisting and moving people, basic life support, fire safety, food safety, health and safety, infection prevention and control, medication management, safeguarding

Job Facilities/Benefits

• Competitive salary of 14.00 – 15.00 per hour
• Flexibility in working hours (3 hours to 40 hours per week)
• Potential for ongoing employment
• Statutory employment rights and benefits applicable to employees
• Paid by a payroll service company, usually 4-weekly or monthly