Diverse Care
Diverse Care™ is SMRC’s multicultural labour hire service supporting the clients of approved providers of Aged Care and Disability Services across southern and eastern Melbourne for more than 20 years.
Our workforce of 80+ qualified care workers provide services in 46 languages. Older people and their families greatly value having care workers who speak their language and understand their cultural requirements. By employing multilingual workers, it allows us to match our provided care services to our clients’ cultural and communication needs.
Our Diverse Care™ workers are qualified in:
- Certificate III in Individual Support and/or
- Certificate IV in Disability
- and are Police and Working with Children Check compliant
Diverse Care offers support with:
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Personal Transport
Escorting a client in worker’s vehicle to appointments, shopping and assisting to pay accounts; errands, deliveries or transporting minor goods on behalf of the client. -
Respite Care
Can include elements of Personal Care, client transport and overnight Personal Care. Other respite arrangements can be arranged in consultation with case manager and Diverse Care. -
Home Care
Domestic Assistance such as change bed linen and towels; laundry including sheets, towels & personal clothing; ironing; washing & drying dishes. General Cleaning such as vacuum, sweep and mop floors, dusting and removal of cobwebs from ground level, polishing woodwork; cleaning kitchen, bathroom, toilet and laundry, this includes baths, showers, sinks, toilets, wiping benches. -
Personal Care
Assisting care recipients with: showers, bathing or sponging; toileting; dressing & undressing; shaving, hair care & personal grooming; mobility in/out of bed, sitting, transferring to commode or wheelchair or chair or vehicle; social or recreational activities according to the agreed care plan; prompting reminders for self-medication.
Our care workers speak your language
All our workers speak English. Most also speak a language and/or dialect other than English.
Our language and dialects include:
Arabic
Bengali
Cantonese
Creole
Dutch
French
Hazaragi
Hindi
Khmer
Malay
Maltese
Persian
Russian
Shanghainese
Spanish
Tamil
Urdu
Armenian
Bosnian
Cambodian
Croatian
Farsi
German
Hakka
Indonesian
Japanese
Mandarin
Pashtu
Polish
Rohinga
Serbian
Sudanese
Teochew
Vietnamese
Albanian
Burmese
Cebuano
Dari
Filipino
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Lao
Macedonian
Portuguese
Romanian
Spanish
Sinhalese
Tagalog
Turkish
Yoruba