08/06/2026
🌿 **We’re Hiring: Co-Resident – 3 Nights Per Week | Maroochydore** 🌿
Sunshine Coast Individualised Living Limited is seeking a kind, easy-going and empathic female to provide day and overnight support to a lovely lady in her early 60s with early onset dementia, living in her own home in Maroochydore.
This is a **part-time co-resident role, 3 nights per week**:
🕒 **Thursday 3.00pm to Friday 9.00am**
🕒 **Friday 3.00pm to Sunday 9.00am**
💰 **$62,868.00 per year**
Plus the bonus of a **Salary Sacrifice package up to $18,550 per year** to help maximise take-home pay.
This role offers the opportunity to work closely with a warm, friendly woman who enjoys spending time outdoors, staying active, interacting with children and animals, and exploring nature. She has a wonderful sense of humour, and it’s important that the right person shares her zest for life.
The role involves supporting her independence while providing the care and assistance needed to ensure her safety, health and wellbeing in her own home.
**About the Role**
Key responsibilities include:
• Supporting with self-care and daily living activities, including prompting and assistance as needed.
• Helping manage and attend appointments, providing companionship and support.
• Assisting with domestic duties involved in running a small home, including cleaning, meal planning and preparation, food shopping and laundry.
• Ensuring the lady stays safe, healthy and happy in her own home.
• Supporting an active lifestyle, including outdoor walks and activities.
• Fostering a meaningful connection, respecting her independence and encouraging social interactions.
**The Ideal Candidate**
We are looking for someone who is:
• Nurturing, patient, kind and resilient.
• Experienced in support work or a caring role, preferred but not essential.
• Comfortable providing support and physical assistance with personal care, including toileting and other hands-on personal care tasks when required.
• Able to provide assistance during overnight shifts, including responding to personal care needs throughout the night.
• Active, nature-loving and enjoys being outdoors, walking and staying busy.
• Comfortable around animals, particularly cats, and willing to assist with the care of the participant’s pet cat, including feeding and administering medication as required.
• A great communicator with a sense of humour and a friendly, approachable demeanour.
• Able to work harmoniously and collaboratively as part of a supportive team of support workers and maintain positive relationships with the participant’s 4-night co-resident.
• Someone who can balance providing support while empowering the lady to live as independently as possible.
In return, you will be provided with a substantial fortnightly salary and 4 weeks leave per year.
You will provide live-in support every morning, afternoon/evening, on weekends and public holidays, if the public holiday falls within the hours described above.
**Essential Criteria**
Applicants must have, or be willing to obtain:
• Excellent communication and listening skills.
• High level of initiative and great problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to view people with disability as valued individuals with human rights.
• Commitment to a person-centred approach.
• Certificate in disability work, aged care or desire to obtain.
• Smartphone with internet access and ability to send short reports as emails.
• Current NDIS Worker Clearance, or willingness to obtain.
• Current First Aid Certificate with CPR, or willingness to obtain.
• National Police Check obtained within the last 12 months.
• Valid Queensland Driver Licence and access to a registered, insured vehicle.
• Ability to work in Australia with no restrictions on hours.
• Ability to commit to the same time and days each week.
**About SCILL**
SCILL is a not-for-profit provider of flexible and individualised support designed to assist people with disability in their current home, or to plan for and transition to an independent living option of their choice.
We are seeking reliable, friendly and committed support workers to join our team. You will be personally introduced to the participants you will be supporting and will support them on regular days and times.
To learn more about our company, visit: [www.scill.org.au](http://www.scill.org.au)
📩 **To apply:** Please email your resume and a brief covering letter outlining why you would be suitable for this role to [email protected]
