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:

  • 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.
    Personal Transport
  • 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.
    A couple smile together
  • 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.
    female carer helping senior man with medication
  • 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.
    elderly man with a carer looking at mobile

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

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