Award winning and innovative Aged Care Provider, including recipient of Xref's "Best Workplace Award 2023" and "Engage Change Champion Award 2023" and the winner of the Clinical Education Program Future of Aging Award 2024
Regular permanent shifts leading to enhanced work/life balance
Join a team of 120 onsite Allied Health professionals across 13 specialties
Permanent part time 30 hours per week
Montefiore in Woollahra is recruiting to the exciting position of Care and Activities Assistant. This is a permanent part time opportunity, working Monday to Friday.
Reporting into the Executive Care Manager, your role will be a hybrid of personal care-related tasks and leisure and lifestyle related activities. Specifically, you will spend 50% of your time delivering personal care services and the other 50% will be towards Wellbeing Programs and implementation.
You will:
- Provide safe, respectful, and personalised support with daily living and personal care, in alignment with Montefiore’s Mission, Vision, and Values.
- Work under the guidance of the Leisure & Lifestyle Therapist to enhance residents’ emotional, social, and psychological wellbeing through meaningful leisure and lifestyle activities that foster dignity, engagement, and quality of life.
- Deliver person-centred care in every interaction, ensuring each resident feels heard, valued, and supported.
To be successful you will demonstrate the following:
- Certificate III in Individual Support (CHC33021).
- Certificate IV Leisure and Health (preferred).
- Cert IV in Ageing Individual Support (Ageing) or equivalent (Preferred).
- Previous experience in an aged care health care setting (preferred).
- Understanding of aged care standards and person-centred care.
- Experience facilitating group and individual activities that promote wellbeing, social interaction, and cognitive stimulation.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Empathy and sensitivity to the needs of older people.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and professional development.
- Ability to follow care plans and complete required documentation.
About Us:
Montefiore is an award-winning, Sydney-based aged care provider, with a proud 135-year history as a non-profit organisation founded on Jewish values. We support older members of the community to live with choice, dignity and wellbeing through trusted residential care, flexible home care and luxury retirement living.
What we offer:
We offer a competitive remuneration package that includes NFP salary packaging, generous leave entitlements (including 5 weeks of annual leave and 12 ADOs per annum) and a highly supportive workplace culture with a genuine passion for continuous improvement and excellence.
To find out more about what we do and to apply online, please visit our website: http://www.montefiore.org.au
All offers of employment are dependent upon successful completion of the organisation’s pre-employment check process. This includes (but is not limited to) the requirement to be willing to obtain a Criminal Police Check.
Please note that applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date. As such, the closing date is subject to change without notice.