Employment Info
We welcome your interest in working with us. Please refer to general information about Family Based Care on this site to give you a background on our organisation.
Both our clients and our employees are valuable to us. We wish to ensure that we attract client focused staff that have a genuine commitment to our mission statement and delivering quality service. In turn we believe staff gain a high level of job satisfaction from working with a quality service provider.
Applicants need to know that thorough reference checking is conducted prior to any appointment and all applicants must supply a National Police Report as a condition of employment.
Obviously honesty and integrity are crucial when working with vulnerable clients. It is also important to us that our employees have a balance of empathy and professional boundaries.
If you share our commitment to providing an excellent service to our clients and feel you would like to work for us at some time in the future please contact us.
What do we offer ?
-The opportunity to gain a high level of job satisfaction
- Flexible hours for our Direct Care Workers
- A safe and secure workplace
- Award based terms and conditions for office based staff
- A large proportion of our current employees work under a new collective agreement which is award based.
- A flexible and family friendly workplace
- Professional support, de-briefing, guidance to all employees
- Professional induction training to all new employees
- Career pathways for those starting as domestic assistants and wishing to progress to support work.
- Qualifications through traineeships where employees meet eligibility
- Opportunities for growth and learning
- A caring and professional management
Who do we employ?
We employ a wide range of casual, part time and full time staff to fill various positions including:
• Office based staff - positions advertised on this site as they become vacant.
• Coordinator positions (requires relevant Diploma in Community Services and/or relevant tertiary qualification which may include social work, nursing, health care).
• Direct Care Workers - support workers (minimum qualification Certificate III in Aged Care, Disability Care or In-Home care) to deliver in-home care.
• Direct Care Workers – home help ( Relevant Certificate II Community Services, health care or asset maintenance desirable but not essential) to work in private homes of clients.
• Direct Care Workers – Respite House shifts ( must be medication endorsed in addition to relevant qualification). This position may suit semi retired registered or enrolled nurses who are looking for regular casual work. Hours vary but can include overnights with one or two medium care clients.
• We also contract student nurses, semi retired nurses/support workers and young parents who cannot guarantee availability throughout the year to assist us as casual relief.
What are the working conditions like?
We have been operating for over 20 years and employ over 300 staff which includes approximately 70 office based staff and almost 300 Direct Care Workers.
We employ under various conditions using the Community Services Award as our foundation. Conditions are clearly outlined in position descriptions.
