Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation (TCAC) is a community controlled Public Benevo-lent Institution delivering human services and social enterprise activities for the benefit of Aborig-inal people from the Alice Springs Town Camps, urban Alice Springs, and Central Australia.
Tangentyere Aged & Community Services (TACS) is part of the Social Services Division, which aims to im-prove the quality of life of Central Australian Aboriginal people and the wider community through providing innovative, responsive, and culturally safe services.
TACS provide CHSP, HCP & NDIS home care & centre-based services to an extremely diverse and vulner-able cohort of people, where health is more than often secondary to other social determinants. With more than 7 languages spoken and over 100 clients, TACS continues to uphold quality service provision and maintains its strong ties with members of the Alice Springs and wider community.
This position will be responsible for providing direct personal care and support to frail, aged people, and people living with disability in the community.
As part of your role, you will be working with children, people with a disability and people who are vulnera-ble. It is your obligation to always ensure their safety and report any concerns in line with our duty of care obligations. We have zero tolerance when it comes to abuse of any kind and will take disciplinary action, including and up to termination of employment, should we determine that abuse has taken place or there has been a failure to report any suspected or alleged abuse.
Responsibilities
• Provide personal care, support, and assistance to people who use the service.
• Assist people with whole-of-life support and advocacy in a responsive, culturally safe, and flexible way, supporting them to access mainstream services.
• Monitor people’s care needs and report changes or issues.
• Assist with achieving quality management objectives across the organisation.
• Assist with achieving safeguarding objectives across the organisation.
• Assist with achieving compliance objectives across the organisation.
• Other reasonable duties as required.
Qualifications and Selection Criteria
Required
• Experience in supporting frail, aged people or people living with disability.
• Basic literacy, numeracy, and administration skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload.
• Current NT Drivers Licence, NT Working with Children (Ochre) Card, satisfactory Police Check, and proof of full (3) vaccination against COVID-19.
Desired
• Certificate III – Individual Support (equivalent or willingness to obtain).
• First Aid/CPR Qualification (or willingness to obtain).
• Ability to understand or speak one or more Aboriginal languages.
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.
