• Permanent Part Time x 2 vacancies
• Offering up to full time hours 
• Night Duty!
• $31.24 p/h

About our facility

Nestled on the edge of a serene bushland reserve in the Lake Macquarie region of NSW, Uniting Garden Suburb is peaceful and welcoming aged care home. With 3 separate households, each with between 25–30 residents. This includes a secure household for people living with dementia or mental health illness. Your Uniting Homemaker ensures that the community is thriving and doing things that are meaningful and enjoyable.

What you’ll be doing in this role

We are seeking to fill 2 permanent part time positions (can offer up to full time hours) for experienced residential aged care workers for Night Duty shifts.  Applicant's must have night duty experience.

Our Uniting Household Model of care empowers our residential care teams with freedom to support our residents in ways that help them maintain a sense of meaning and purpose in their day. As a Carer in a household, you’ll provide care, companionship, and emotional support to residents to help support their independence and improve their quality of life. 

Your care work may include:

• Providing daily living assistance with showering, personal hygiene, dressing, help at mealtimes and with general mobility
• Assisting with medication and simple wound dressings
• Laundry and cleaning and
• Supporting residents in community-based recreational and social activities.

Who we’re looking for

• You must have a minimum of 12 months residential aged care experience working night duty shifts.
• Qualifications in Aged Care or similar.
• You’ll be adaptable, empathetic, and resourceful and be able to live Uniting’s everyday values of being compassionate, respectful, imaginative, and bold.

Benefits we offer

• Salary Packaging: Up to $18,550 tax-free for part-time and full-time employees.
• Wellbeing programs: including free 24/7 confidential counselling services for you and your family via Telus Health.
• Discounts: Exclusive discounts at major retailers (e.g: Coles, Ampol, Samsung, NRMA, JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman, Avis, Qantas).
• Referral Program: Earn a $500 gift voucher each time you refer a new employee who stays for 2 months.  
• Fitness Passport: Access to 865+ gyms, pools, and fitness centres across NSW and ACT for less than a standard gym membership.

Click here to find out more about our great benefits: Benefits of working at Uniting 

We’ll create a better future for you

Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we support them to grow and develop to be their best through our strong commitment to learning, flexibility, great benefits and a positive culture of teamwork and cooperation. Together, we can build a better future for the people and communities we serve, and for you.

About Uniting Aged Care

When you’re part of Uniting NSW.ACT, you’re part of a diverse, purpose-led team of people who are really making a difference to the world around them.

We contribute to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Uniting leaders and employees work together to create a culture that is safe, inclusive and person-centred. We bring this to life every day through our values: compassionate, respectful, imaginative and bold.

Uniting acknowledges the continuing sovereignty and rich cultural diversity of Australia’s First Peoples. We pay our respects to all Elders – past, present, and emerging – and to all First Peoples on whose lands we live and work.

Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.

What to expect

Please know that employment with Uniting requires:

• A National Police Check
• Reference checks
• Other pre-employment screenings

 How to apply

If you see yourself in this role, we’d love to hear from you. Just click on the ‘Apply Now’ button, fill out your details and submit. Once you apply, we’ll keep you up to date on how your application is progressing. We encourage applications from people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.