The Opportunity At Infinite Care, we pride ourselves on our ability to provide an environment that encourages and enables residents to remain independent. Our Care Assistants are impactful, resident-centric, and play a key role in helping us achieve this at our Aged Care Tweed Heads - Nursing Home | Infinite Care.
Supported by the clinical, lifestyle, and hospitality teams, you will work with limited direct supervision and be responsible for delivering resident-centric care in a timely and compassionate manner, enabling residents to make choices and have control over their support needs.
About You What is essential is that you have a resident/customer-centric mindset and the ability to "think on your feet." You must communicate effectively, build rapport, and maintain professional relationships with residents and co-workers alike. In addition, you will also:
Possess excellent communication skills, high empathy, and caring interpersonal skills.Have a passion for making a difference to the elderly by being their personal carer in a positive manner, ensuring privacy and dignity are respected at all times, including building positive relationships with their families.Exhibit a very positive teamwork attitude; you are on time, offer to help, be supportive, and be a fun team colleague that everyone loves to work with!Hold a valid NDIS Workers Screening Clearance (if not, we can advise how to obtain it).Be enrolled in a Certificate in Aged Care or similar tertiary studies.Demonstrate excellent safety awareness to avoid our residents tripping, falling, or hurting themselves - you need to be their extra eyes and ears!Possess current First Aid and Manual Handling Certificates (desirable).Provide quality support to residents with their activities of daily living and help keep their bodies and minds active.Interact with residents, families, and friends in a helpful manner.Exhibit the ability to think on your feet, ensuring our residents are the main focus, as you will be making a difference in their lives every day! We want to have fun in our homes.Who are we? Infinite Care is a rapidly growing leader in residential aged care with over 30 years of experience in providing quality individualized care to aging residents. We have facilities in Queensland, NSW, and South Australia. We offer our employees the opportunity to broaden their skills and achieve their potential while creating a home away from home for our residents and their loved ones.
Benefits - Why work for us? Fitness Passport.Career growth opportunities within a strong mentoring team culture.Access to in-house and online training programs - FREE to all employees.Supportive, positive team environment with a strong caring work ethic.Company-wide safety-first workplaces for our residents, families, and staff.Positive wellbeing, fun, and engaging team/shift activities.Access to family-friendly benefits like our EAP and Flare (employee discounts).Work-Rite Micro professional development - FREE to all employees.As part of being an Infinite Aged Care employee, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks.
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