- Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
- Various Locations across the Adelaide Hills
- Salary: $32.90 per hour – $35.28 per hour + 25% Casual Loading
- 2026/27 BHFLHN Direct Care Worker Casual Pool
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WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?
The role provides hands-on, person-centred support to clients with daily living activities, including personal care, mobility assistance, and maintaining a safe, clean, and comfortable environment. It also contributes to client wellbeing through support with routine treatments, medication assistance under direction, and input into client assessments, ensuring care is responsive to individual needs and aligned with care plans.
Working within a multidisciplinary team, the role requires the ability to perform duties safely and effectively while exercising judgement and initiative within defined procedures. Ongoing training and skill development are essential, alongside a strong commitment to workplace health and safety, compliance, and continuous improvement to support high-quality care and positive team outcomes.
Join us in elevating care and supporting our residents.
WHO ARE WE?
The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network offers opportunities across our sites, from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda, wrapping all the way around our metropolitan areas. We pride ourselves on providing exceptional care to all our consumers, residents, their families, and community. Our mission is to ensure that you always receive the best quality, safe, consistent, collaborative care and always with kindness. We do this by maintaining exceptional levels of care at all times supported by systems and processes that assure us of quality and safety of our staff and those we serve.
WHERE AND HOW YOU WILL WORK
This is a casual role with the opportunity to work across many of our areas in the Fleurieu region.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Are you compassionate and enjoy working with vulnerable people?
- Can you build effective working relationships and communicate with care with a wide range of diverse people including our residents?
- Are you a person who thrives on being organised and takes safety seriously?
- Do you like to engage with people from diverse backgrounds and with complex needs?
- Is it your passion to support others to achieve exceptional patient centred care?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions - then read on…
HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?
You will……….
- Provide personalised in-home and residential support to clients, including personal care, household tasks, meal preparation, social support, and assistance with mobility or therapy needs.
- Follow and contribute to individual care plans, monitoring client wellbeing and reporting changes in health or functional status to coordinators.
- Maintain a safe, clean, and organised environment, including equipment, aids, and client living spaces.
- Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, participating in training, quality improvement activities, and client service reviews.
- Comply with workplace health and safety standards, infection control, confidentiality, and continuous improvement initiatives.
WHAT WILL WE OFFER YOU IN RETURN?
At BHFLHN, not only will you be working in an environment surrounded by beautiful scenery and nature we see your work here as not just as a job, but an opportunity to extend, progress or consolidate your career with us. We therefore offer you opportunities to be supported in the following ways:
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year Click here more information
- Access to professional development opportunities to enable you to do your job.
- Support for you and your family via our free Employee Assistance Program.
- Health and Fitness Benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to BHFLHN staff and their families.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW/WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS?
Working in this environment, it is important to us that we only employ people with the upmost integrity and commitment to serving the South Australian community and its visitors to the highest possible standards. To ensure that we meet that commitment there are a few checks that you will be required to undertake. These are detailed on the Role Description, but are likely to include the following:
- You will need to be immunised. Please contact the Enquiries Person for this position if you have any queries. Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy. Further information is in the application for to help guide you.
- You will need to undergo employment screening, what you require is also on the front page of the Role Description.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
We employ people as diverse as the clients we support and the environments we work in. At BHFLHN we pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees and therefore we encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community. We continually look for ways to support and promote diversity and flexible ways of working so please let us know what interests you.
NEED TO RELOCATE?
Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. See what is available here: Relocation support | SA Health. Find out more about working in the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, and see what it looks like to work and live in regional Australia at: https://movetomore.com.au/
HELP IS HERE!
Please refer to all the details in the Role Description below (job ref: 933920), or reach out to Narelle McWhinney, Optimal Ageing Systems Administrator on Phone: 0477315570 or via E-mail: [email protected]
. Please also here for our Australian applicant guidelines
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DON’T HESITATE! Applications Close on 26 March 2027 at 11:55PM
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
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