Residential Aged Care Housekeeper – Casual | Make A Difference

Join the BallyCara Housekeeping Team at our beautiful Scarborough community — located just one street from the water. You'll help create the clean, welcoming and comfortable spaces that make BallyCara feel like home for our residents, clients, visitors and team members.

Why BallyCara?

When you join BallyCara, you’re joining more than a workplace—you’re becoming part of a values-led community built on relationships, respect, and purpose. We support you to do meaningful work while growing in a way that suits you.

BallyCara is an established charitable organisation that offers a wellness-focused lifestyle for our clients to facilitate independent living, health, and happiness.

At BallyCara, you will belong to a welcoming and inclusive community where your individual strengths and interests are embraced and are the key driver to everything that we create together. We will empower you with flexibility, autonomy and coaching to allow you to make a meaningful difference, whilst supporting you in your career and personal journey.

We inspire healthy and happy living through our SONA® (Happiness) values and enhance our employee's wellness through the following employee benefits:

• Emotional Wellness: Enhance your happiness. Enjoy a wellness day off each year to take on your birthday, for your family, or just for you because you are worth it. 
• Physical Wellness: Improve your health and wellbeing with a fitness allowance for remedial massage, outdoor wellness gear, yoga, pilates, swimming, or gym plus access to an online fitness portal LIFT Fitness!
• Professional Wellness: Enhance your career with two days of paid study leave combined with yearly study assistance!
• Financial Wellness: Access not-for-profit salary packaging up to $18,550, receive 17.5% annual leave loading, and up to $1,892 per annum in financial discounts from our TELUS Health EAP and wellbeing portal! 

We're looking for reliable, caring and hardworking Housekeepers to join our team on a casual basis, with the potential to move into permanent employment for the right candidate and team fit.

Imagine heading to work in beautiful Scarborough, enjoying the coastal surroundings and being part of a community where your work genuinely matters.

While you're behind the scenes, the impact you make is right at the heart of what we do.

What you'll be doing

You'll play an important role in creating a safe, hygienic and welcoming environment across our community.

Your day could include:

• Cleaning resident rooms and communal areas
• Vacuuming, mopping, dusting and sanitising
• Maintaining bathrooms, offices, kitchens and shared spaces
• Supporting our in-house laundry, including sorting, washing and distribution
• Removing rubbish and replenishing supplies
• Following infection prevention and control practices
• Using cleaning products, equipment and PPE safely
• Responding respectfully to resident and staff requests
• Identifying and reporting maintenance, safety or other concerns

What we're looking for

You don't need to have worked in aged care before. We're looking for people who are:

• Reliable, hardworking and take pride in their work
• Experienced in cleaning, housekeeping or a similar environment
• Comfortable working independently and as part of a team
• Organised and able to manage their time effectively
• Friendly, respectful and customer-focused
• Comfortable with the physical demands of a hands-on role

Experience in aged care, healthcare or hospitality is highly regarded, as is an understanding of infection control.

Ready to make a difference?

If you're looking for casual work with the potential to become permanent, enjoy working with people and take pride in creating clean, comfortable spaces, we'd love to hear from you.

Location: Scarborough — just one street from the water

Employment: Casual, with a view to permanent for the right candidate

Come and be part of a team where what you do every day helps Inspire Healthy and Happy Living.

Apply today and start your BallyCara journey.

Applications must be submitted via our recruitment portal. Applications received through external agencies or alternative channels will not be accepted.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We sincerely thank you for your interest in working with BallyCara and for taking the time to apply.