Cairns Region The opportunity to make a real difference in your clients’ lives.
- Salary Packaging, retail benefits and more available
- Casual role on a fixed fortnightly roster
- Gain additional skills through training with our Registered Nurse team
Personal Support Worker
Cairns Region The opportunity to make a real difference in your clients’ lives.
- Salary Packaging, retail benefits and more available
- Casual role on a fixed fortnightly roster
- Gain additional skills through training with our Registered Nurse team
About the Role As a personal support worker, you will directly be supporting our clients, who have acquired spinal cord injuries, with their daily tasks in our clients’ homes such as:
- Transfers in and out of bed and wheelchairs, using hoists when required.
- Grooming, bathing, dressing and dental hygiene.
- Personal care, including toileting, bladder and bowel management.
- Basic wound care and self-medication.
- Domestic support such as meal preparation, light household duties and laundry.
- Community access such as driving to appointments and social activities
Essential Skills and Qualifications
- Full training provided - Whilst experience in disability or aged care,regarded, is not a requirement for the role.
- A valid Driver's Licence and own reliable vehicle is required
- A smartphone device
- Hold, or willing to obtain, NDIS Workers Screening Card and Blue Card
- NDIS Workers Orientation Module
Spinal Life Australia Benefits
- Penalty rates for weekends, nights, and public holidays.
- Fixed rosters to support your work-life balance.
- Salary packaging arrangements that can increase your take-home pay.
- Provide comprehensive onboarding training, and ongoing training and development for our Personal Support Workers.
- Employee Assistance Program and Employee Wellbeing Program for staff and family members.
Spinal Life Australia is an equal prospect employer and encourages people with disabilities to apply. We also actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for our positions.
All applications will be assessed as they are received.
Visit our website www.spinal.com.au for more information about what we do, our clients, and our staff.
Additional information
- No experience required - training provided
- Join a dedicated and supportive team
- Regular and flexible shifts - build a roster that suits you
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📌 Personal Support Workers - Cairns (Cairns North)
🏢 Spinal Life Australia
📍 Cairns North
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