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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