Personal Care Associate

Epworth HealthCare (Epworth) seeks casual Personal Care Associate's to join our high performing and highly valued Central Resource Unit (CRU).

The CRU provides a flexible workforce to support Epworth clinical units, giving you the opportunity to implement your skills and knowledge while working with clinical nursing staff across a variety of sites and clinical settings within Epworth Health. We are seeking candidates who can work across Epworth sites at Richmond, East Melbourne, Box Hill, Hawthorn, and Camberwell and across a variety of shift times including days, nights and weekends, sometimes with short notice.

Why join the Central Resource Unit:

• Dedicated operational team that provides support to the casual workforce
• Easily accept shifts with a mobile application
• Access to a CRU Educator that will provide a robust orientation for our valued staff
• Work across a variety of hospitals that are located within proximity of each other

You will make an impact by:

• Delivering an exceptional patient experience
• Providing high standards of care through common responsibilities such as but not limited to;
  • Pressure care
  • Assisting with ambulating patients
  • Assist patients with personal care and hygiene as directed
  • Bed making
  • Constant Patient Observation - CPO
• Encouraging and role-modelling empathy to patients, families and medical staff

To be successful in this role, you will…

• Have previous experience working in a clinical setting, ideally within a hospital
• Have Australian working rights
• Have excellent interpersonal communication and teamwork skills
• Be teachable and have a willingness to learn and grow professionally
• Enjoy the challenge of working flexibly within a team environment.
• Possess a strong understanding and background of patient-centred care
• Have the ability to maintain a high level of communication with patients, staff, and visitors.
• Have well-developed time management and prioritisation skills 

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