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Working for Care Works as a Personal Care Assistant (PCA)

A Care Works Personal Care Assistant (also known as a Carer or Care Attendant) provides direct care assistance to people with significant physical disabilities in their own homes.

These care services are designed to assist the person (client) with their normal daily living tasks. This enables them to achieve maximum personal independence and therefore live their desired lifestyle within the general community.

Duties of a PCA

Depending on the client, the work you perform may involve:

• personal care - including assistance with showering, dressing, grooming, mobility and transfer, toileting, urinary and bowel care;
• assistance with medication
• assistance with nutrition - cooking, meal preparation and feeding;
• companionship or supervision
• light domestic duties including cleaning, laundry, shopping, banking, and paying bills;
• minor home maintenance including lawn mowing, exterior cleaning and small repairs.
• assistance with community access - including social outings, business or medical appointments or attending educational facilities

Place of Work

You could work in a variety of settings including: a client's home; their workplace; a school/college or university or in holiday accommodation. Supervisory or companionship tasks can take place in the client's home or anywhere else in the wider community and could be day or night work.

Working in a Team

Depending on your working hours and the care that is required, you will either work independently with the client or partnered with another care worker for all or part of the shift. In most cases you will become part of a regular team of Personal Care Assistants that support one particular client. However because care staff shifts do not usually overlap it is possible that you may never have the opportunity to work with all the care staff in that particular clients team.

Hours/Shifts

The service that Care Works provides is designed to meet each client's individual needs and enable them, whenever possible, to choose who provides their care and when the care occurs. For this reason a care assistants shifts can be fragmented. Many clients choose to have assistance in the morning to get ready for the day and in the evening to go to bed at night. Therefore, the bulk of work often occurs between the hours of 6.00am to 10.00am and 6.00pm to 11.00pm. The length of most shifts will vary from 1 to 4 hours. If you want more hours of work it may be possible for you to work with more than one client, providing the shift times do not overlap.

The Application Process

Applying for a Position

If your initial application is satisfactory you will be invited to attend an interview with one of our Service Coordinators. Selection for PCA positions are primarily based on merit. This means that a person will be selected for the job on the basis of demonstrating the skills, personal qualities and experience that best match our client's requirements. Formal qualifications or prior experience are desirable but not essential as training is given. In some circumstances a successful candidate may also be required to attend an interview with the client they will be working with.

Referee Check

If your interview is satisfactory, the Service Coordinator will phone one or both of your nominated referees for their observations of your recent work performance. They may also be asked to verify or comment on claims made by you in the application form or during the interview.

Police Records Check

The NSW Government requires a Police Record Check to be carried out on all people who work as Personal Care Assistants. A prior conviction does not necessarily disqualify you from selection, but if this is the case the Manager will discuss the matter with you before any final decision is made regarding your employment.

Induction Interview

If you are successful in this application you will be contacted by us shortly after confirmation of your appointment, to arrange your attendance at our office for an induction interview (information session) which must be carried out before you start work or training.

Induction, Training and Orientation

The induction session will provide you with important information about your role as an employee of Care Works. You will also receive a self directed orientation package, to be completed within the first 4 weeks of employment.

When you are placed with a client you will be trained and oriented to your new role. The amount of training you receive will depend on the level of knowledge and experience you possess and how it matches up to the individual needs of the clients you will be working with.

During the early weeks of your employment, as your skills develop, you will be required to pass a competency assessment to ensure that you are working according to our policies and procedures. You will also learn more about your role and increase your skills and knowledge by attending our group training workshops.

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How to Apply

For further information please call our head office: ph 9397 5100 or

Alternatively click here to download an application form which you can mail or fax to us.

Please check out the vacancies that we currently have.

Current vacancies - PCA Jobs

Before applying for any position, please read the important information relating to employment with CareWorks in the "See Also" menu to the right

Personal Care Attendant - Lakelands

Permanent Part-Time Reliable, flexible people are required to provide personal care and assistance for a female client with a physical disability in the Lakelands area. Experience is an advantage but not essential as training is provided. The hours of work are flexible but will involve morning, lunch and afternoon work and may involve some Saturday work. A car, NSW drivers licence and mobile phone are essential.

 For further details please call Lisa on 9397 5104 during business hours.

To apply please download an Application Form from our website: www.careworks.net.au and email your Application Form and Resume to: jobs@careworks.net.au or fax to 02 87565434.

Personal Care Attendant - Coraki

A client with a physical disability living in the village of Coraki requires a Personal carer to work 9 -10 hours per week.

Short morning and evening shifts, plus fill in and holiday relief.

Work includes Personal care and domestic duties.

Essential: must be reliable, punctual and flexible with own vehicle and contact number.

To apply please download an Application Form from our website: www.careworks.net.auand email your Application Form and Resume to: jobs@careworks.net.auor fax to 02 87565434.

You can access our Application form here in PDF format which can be mailed or faxed to us.

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