Total 2,500 Customer Service job vacancies in South Melbourne, Victoria

About Us:  

Melba has been supporting the Victorian community for over 50 years. What began with three families in search of a different kind of day support for their children with disabilities, has become a mission to open a world of opportunities for people to live fabulous lives of their choosing. The human rights of the people we support are at the centre of everything we do. 

About the Role:  

As the Relationship Partner, you will be focusing on actively supporting the individual through person-centred assessment, planning, and liaison with relevant support. You will serve as a dedicated advocate for human-rights, committed to enhancing the quality of life for those you support through thoughtful planning, adherence to legislative requirements, and advocacy for their individual needs and preferences.

Responsibilities:  

· Discuss the person’s interest in Melba’s services, collate and receive and review the persons supported needs, ensuring clarity through open dialogue and discussions.

· Ensure informed consent and understanding of rights and responsibilities.

· Provide necessary information, support, and resources for active participation, skill development, and progress tracking, while managing service costs.

· Collaborate with the person and Melba supports to identify and overcome service barriers, ensuring quality service delivery and monitoring service quality through checks and individual feedback.

· Develop and deliver support plans, coordinating services, making referrals to relevant Melba supports and providers as needed, and communicating with staff, agencies, and external providers on behalf of the person supported.

· Ensure a coordinated response to learnings from incident reports, complaints, and/or quality of care reports.

· Adhere to legislation, program guidelines, and accreditation standards, ensuring accurate data management, compliance with policies and procedures.

· Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by meeting targets and key performance indicators, working within quality frameworks, and attending relevant meetings.

· Uphold human rights and ensure a safe working environment for all stakeholders, sharing effective practices to build a strong health and wellbeing culture.

· Partner with the Practice Lead to document and maintain relevant information regarding supports and outcomes, including Personal Outcome Measures (POMs).

· Undertake any other additional responsibilities as directed by your manager.

Your Background (Skills and Attributes): 

· Understanding of services and systems, coupled with effective planning and organisational skills.

· A good understanding of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) and person-centred practice.

· A strong understanding of when and how to engage allied health or other professional expertise to ensure the health and well-being of the person supported.

· The ability to adopt communication techniques that respond to the unique needs of each person.

· High attention to detail, ability to prioritise tasks, meet deadlines, and work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

· Quick to adapt to modern technologies, including proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and capacity to learn in-house database systems.

· Experience in supporting people with disabilities and their families.

· Strong interpersonal skills and ability to form effective working relationships with colleagues, management, families, and external bodies.

· Effective communication skills (language and literacy) with a demonstrated ability to maintain accurate and legible records.

· Ability to take on responsibility and accountability to drive positive change.

· Willingness to collaborate and build positive relationships, demonstrating a resilient and adaptable mindset.

· Bring a flexible, positive, and self-motivated mindset to your interactions every day.

· Certificate IV in Disability is desirable but not mandatory.

Requirements: 

· A current NDIS Worker Screening and Working with Children Check (we can support you through the process of obtaining one or both checks if you don’t already have them).

· The ability and relevant driver’s license to perform travel and work a variety of shifts, including weekends. Position may also require working active nights.

· Compliance with OHS regulations, legislation, and Policies and Procedures is required. Successful completion of pre-employment safety screening checks, mandatory training, and their subsequent renewals is necessary.

Why Join Us?  

· We are a human-rights, values-based, not-for-profit community organisation committed to providing services that support individuals with disability to lead everyday lives of their choice, if this resonates with you, come join us!  

· Join a supportive and collaborative culture where your contributions make a real impact.  

· Enjoy onsite parking and other benefits.  

· Access to Not-for-Profit Salary Packaging.   

· Flexible work arrangements, with the ability to work from home or the office.  

Ready to Make a Difference?  

Click "Apply" now and submit your resume. We look forward to meeting you!  

We are an equal opportunity Employer and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.  

First nations people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are strongly encouraged to apply.  

Looking for a new opportunity? Join our team as Personal Care Assistant.

We are seeking Personal Care Assistants to join the care team our residential aged care home Hudson House and our newly acquired home, Yallambee Lodge in Cooma, New South Wales. We have multiple positions available.

Who we are:
As a proud not for profit organisation since 1922, Respect Aged Care serves older residents through our high standard of care and community. Our focus is on giving back to older adults by fostering communities of belonging. Headquartered on the northwest coast of Tasmania, our philosophy is: Everyone deserves the right to a life well-lived, with dignity and respect.

Our organisation is constantly growing, with many homes and thousands of residents and employees across Victoria, New south Wales and Tasmania. Respect also has home care services in multiple states, and more than 700 units in different retirement villages and independent living communities.

The Position:

The successful candidates will join our dynamic and supportive care team and will provide competent personal care, support and assistance to all residents under the direction and guidance of the senior clinical team. The Personal Care Assistant is responsible for providing competent personal care, support and assistance to all residents under the direction and guidance of the senior clinical team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide personal care to assist residents to maintain independence and dignity with respect to activities of daily living and lifestyle.
• Attend to meal delivery and refreshments as required.
• Record observations on relevant assessment charts and documents any observed exceptions to the care plan in the progress notes; and reports such to the EN/RN.
• Check residents daily menu requirements.
• Attend to duties as allocated and or delegated by the RN/EN, including general ward duties.
• Any other task not defined but within the employees skills, as directed by the organisation.

Essential:

• Current National Police Certificate (or ability to acquire).
• Relevant Certificate III Qualification.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills.

Desirable:

• Experience in residential aged care.

To be considered for employment with Respect, each candidate must satisfy the legislative requirements of Aged Care Worker Screening to ensure suitability to work in the aged care industry.

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary and entitlements.
• Pay incentives including not-for-profit salary packaging.
• Meaningful work in a purpose-driven organisation.
• Long-term employment in a recession-proof sector.
• Learning, development, and growth opportunities.
• Discounted private health insurance.

Our purpose:

To care for the elderly in our communities in an environment of respect, value, and belonging.

Our Values:
Respect - Treat all people with fairness and dignity
Care -  Look after and protect the elderly, and each other
Teamwork -  Encourage, cooperate, and build trust
Courage -  Do the right thing, even when it’s difficult
Integrity -  Be open, honest, and trustworthy
Innovation -  Think differently to solve problems.
Excellence -  Drive quality to continuously improve.

• Permanent Full Time
• $73,776 per annum
• Work across the Hume Municipality 

Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

The Customer Service Officer is responsible for providing a positive customer service experience as first point of contact to Council’s customers.

What you’ll be doing:

• Deliver customer service from any frontline touch-point of the contact centre to deliver an omni-channel experience. This will include phone, face-to-face and online/digital channels, and rotation between customer contact centres within Hume City. 
• Efficiently and effectively manage complaints, enquiries and requests on all of Council’s services and operations.
• Provide accurate, timely and courteous information and assistance to customers in all aspects of Council operations.
• Deliver a proactive and analytical approach to resolving customer interactions through effective questioning, negotiation, and conflict management.
• Perform cashiering duties, receipting & balancing of cash float ensuring that there are no discrepancies at the end of day.
• Contribute to a collaborative team environment which shares responsibility for managing customer enquiries and workloads to deliver positive outcomes for our customers. 
• Develop positive and collaborative working relationships with other business units of Council to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.
• Maintain a strong commitment to social justice and inclusion, by providing respectful and culturally appropriate support to customers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and people of all abilities.
• Facilitate the use of Council’s multilingual communication services to assist customers in their preferred language.
• Undertaken appropriate clerical and administrative tasks associated with customer requests and applications.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Demonstrated ability to utilise customer service and contact centre software applications including Telephony, Knowledge Management, Customer Management and/or Request tracking systems.
• Able to provide a high level of customer service in a multiskilled contact centre environment and face-to-face environment.
• Experienced at problem solving and able to employ empathy, good judgement, and flexibility to meet customer needs.
• Sound understanding of how to work with customers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to manage challenging customer conversations including customer complaints and feedback consistent with organisational policies, procedures, and values.
• Proficiency in a language other than English, relevant to Hume City’s community, is highly desirable.

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check.