Introduction:
About the Role
As a Home and Garden Maintenance Care Worker, you will play a vital role in supporting older people to live safely and independently in their own homes. You will provide high-quality home and garden maintenance services that improve safety, accessibility, and wellbeing by identifying, minimising, and removing environmental health and safety risks.
Working as part of a values-driven team, you will deliver practical maintenance support aligned with participants' wellness and reablement goals. This is a part-time (20 hours per week), ongoing position based at Trevor Pearcy House, Bruce ACT, with the majority of work conducted in participants' homes and community locations.
Your responsibilities will include:
Delivering home and yard maintenance and minor repairs to mitigate or remove identified risks to participant health and safety.
Completing basic home maintenance tasks such as changing smoke detector batteries and tightening door hinges.
Providing light garden maintenance including essential pruning, trimming, weeding, and lawn mowing where safety or access is impacted.
Supporting participants to maintain a safe home environment that promotes independence, wellness, and reablement goals.
Using garden and maintenance tools and equipment safely and in line with best practice guidelines.
Working within CHSP guidelines and organisational policies and procedures.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will have:
A current First Aid and CPR certificate (or willingness to obtain).
Experience and strong skills in home and garden maintenance, with an understanding of safe work practices and equipment use.
An understanding of the scope of direct care deliverable under the CHSP guidelines.
A current Driver's Licence and access to a registered, comprehensively insured vehicle suitable for transporting tools and equipment.
A satisfactory Working with Vulnerable People registration (held at all times while employed).
Willingness to undertake a National Criminal History Clearance prior to commencement and every three years thereafter.
Willingness to participate in employment screening such as medical, functional, or psychological assessments as required.
Desirable: Working towards a Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) or an equivalent qualification.
CRCS is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all young children and young people. As part of our commitment to child safeguarding, we require all employees to undergo relevant screening processes, including Working with Children Check (WWCC) and/or Working with Vulnerable People (WWVP) checks and National Police Checks.
We are a supportive and inclusive workplace with excellent conditions, including:
Discounted early education and care program services
15 days personal leave (pro rata) and 17.5% annual leave loading
Access to salary packaging up to $15,900 (increase your take home pay)
Up to 3 additional leave days between Christmas and New Year
Commitment to supporting your professional development.
Access to our Employee Assistance Program.
Diversity
We encourage applications from all backgrounds. These include, but are not limited to:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
LGBTIQ+
Those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
Carers
Mature age people
People with lived experience of disability.
About CRCS
Our organisation offers a diverse range of service offerings designed to support parents, caregivers, and education services in nurturing, supporting, and raising healthy, vibrant, and happy children and young people. The services provided include parent/carer education, support groups, early education support, targeted interventions for families and children, evidence-based therapeutic programs, and supported/targeted playgroups. Our employees will work collaboratively as a team to deliver tailored services across these programs, ensuring the best outcomes for all involved.
To apply:
Please click the apply button and submit your resume and a short paragraph telling us why you are the most ideal candidate for this role. We would love to hear from you
If you'd like to discuss the role or get a copy of the PD please do not hesitate to contact Dominique Henss at
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