At Marymead CatholicCare, our CHOICES & Aged Care Services team is committed to empowering people to live fulfilling, independent lives. We support people with disability, older persons, and young people with trauma backgrounds through flexible, person-centred services tailored to individual goals and aspirations. We are seeking compassionate, adaptable, and motivated Support Workers to join our growing team across part-time or casual opportunities.
As a CHOICES & Aged Care Support Worker, you will provide high-quality, person-centred support to individuals within our Seniors In Networked Communities (SINC) program (CHSP). You will work with minimal supervision using Active Support, Recovery-Oriented Practice, and trauma-informed approaches to promote independence, wellbeing, skill development, and community inclusion.
Support may be delivered in individual homes and community environments.
Shift lengths may vary from 1–8 hours and may include weekdays, evenings, weekends, sleepovers, and public holidays.
As part of the wider CHOICES & Aged Care Services team, you may also have opportunities to work in disability programs including in-home support, community, centre-based groups, and residential settings.
You are a caring and resilient professional who is passionate about supporting people to achieve their goals. You thrive in a team environment while also being confident working independently.
To be successful, you will have:
You will also require:
Marymead CatholicCare is the social services arm of the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn. Our mission is to provide quality services by promoting healthy, inclusive communities through relationships, partnerships and collaboration while adhering to our values of Respect, Integrity, Excellence, Care & Compassion, and Inclusivity.
At Marymead CatholicCare, you will join a values-driven organisation that genuinely cares about the wellbeing of both clients and staff.
We offer:
If you are passionate about empowering people and supporting individuals to live meaningful, independent lives, we would love to hear from you.
Please submit your resume and a cover letter (no more than 2 pages) outlining your demonstrated experience and suitability for the role.
Marymead CatholicCare has a commitment to child safeguarding and zero tolerance to child abuse. Marymead CatholicCare is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Applications are strongly encouraged from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people with a disability; people who identify as LGBTIQ; and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
