The Community Support Worker - Community Services provides high quality support to enable clients to remain in their own homes as independently as possible. Support can be household management and/or personal care; duties vary as all clients have an individualised support plan tailored to their specific needs and goals.

The support worker is in a unique position and is often the first to notice a client’s changing needs. Sometimes they’re the person a client sees most often, so play a critical role in the ongoing wellbeing of those they support.

Household management helps a client to organise and control their home environment.

Tasks may include assistance with:

• Household laundry and ironing
  
• Vacuuming and dusting
• Cleaning kitchens and bathrooms
  
• Bed changing and making
• Help with meal preparation
• Minor maintenance (e.g. changing a light bulb)
• Identification of hazards or unsafe features in the client’s home.

Personal care helps with daily living activities.

Tasks may include assistance with:

• Dressing/undressing
• Personal grooming
• Bathing/showering
• Toileting
• Assistance with mobility
• Passive exercises/maintenance stretches.

Above all, support workers are good communicators, are reliable and trustworthy and operate with the highest level of integrity.

To find out more about becoming a Community Support Worker contact your local Community Services branch.