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• Eyre and Far North Local Health Network, Ceduna District Health Service
• Salary: WHA3 $1,106.10 - $1,117.60 per week (pro rata)
• Ongoing part time working 34.2 hours per week (hours are negotiable)

Join Our Caring Team as a Residential Care Attendant!

We are seeking a compassionate Residential Care Attendant to provide direct, high-quality care and support to residents of our Residential Care Home in Ceduna. In this role, you will assist with daily personal care, mobility, and maintaining a safe, clean, and comfortable environment to enhance the wellbeing and dignity of our clients.

If you’re passionate about making a positive impact through person-centred care, we encourage you to apply!

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with personal care including hygiene, grooming, toileting, and mobility support.
• Support safe transfer, lifting, and use of mechanical aids to maintain resident comfort.
• Maintain cleanliness of resident environments, equipment, and personal belongings.
• Provide assistance with medication, routine treatments, and transportation as required.

About Us

With its ancient outback landscapes, boutique vineyards, oyster farms and Australia’s best-kept-secret surf coast, Eyre and Far North will inspire and energise you.

The Eyre and Far North Local Health Network (EFNLHN) is responsible for the planning and delivery of hospital and health services over 337,626 square kilometres, taking in the Eyre Peninsula, western part of South Australia and north to Coober Pedy.  We are one of the largest LHNs by area in Australia and communities include Ceduna, Cleve, Coober Pedy, Cowell, Cummins, Elliston, Kimba, Oodnadatta, Port Lincoln, Streaky Bay, Tumby Bay and Wudinna.

Services include acute care, medical, accident and emergency, surgery, birthing and midwifery, specialist consultancy, renal dialysis, chemotherapy, transfusions, rehabilitation, residential and community aged care, respite care, transitional care packages, Aboriginal health, mental health, allied health, community health, community nursing, palliative care, community home support packages and home modifications.

Click here to learn more about living and working in Eyre and Far North Local Health Network.

Applicant Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and appropriate immunisation requirements.

Check(s)

• DHS National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Worker Check 
• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 914551

Enquiries

Debbie Greatbatch
Administration Officer
Phone: 8626 2121
Email: deborah.greatbatch@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date

25 September 2025, 11:55PM

Attachments

914551 WHA3 Direct Care Worker- Role Description.pdf

JCS+PersonalCareAttendant+Carer+Aged+Care.pdf

Australian applicant guidelines