Working for SiP
Become an Independent Support Worker
Are you looking for work in Broome? Want to use your skills to help others? Want to set your own rates and work times? Workers are needed with skills and experience in a variety of work types, industries and interests...
Daily living, social and community activities
Indoor: Domestic assistance with dishes, changing bed linens, vacuuming, mopping
Outdoor: Domestic assistance with lawns, leaves, pruning, or handyman
Social: Social outings to partake in hobbies, shopping, transport for medical appointments
Personal Care, Nursing and Allied Health
Personal Care: showering, hoist and transfer and assistance with medication
Nursing: onboarding assessments, wound care, medication and catheter care
Allied Health: Occupational therapy, physiotherapy
Sign up to the online platform Mable as an independent support worker and match with clients who need the services you are able to provide.
Mable is the organisation that supports SiP workers. All workers who sign up with Mable are independent contractors. This might sound scary if you have never contracted before, but the Broome CRC and Mable will help you with the process.
Mable links Home Care Package clients (seniors) with the workers who can help them and provides the platform for submitting timesheets, recording case notes and can even help with tax management.
All relevant insurances are also covered by Mable's 10% fee.
As an independent worker you can set your own rates and hours of work: the program is flexible!
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To sign up you'll need:
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An ABN (free: go to business.gov.au/registrations/register-for-an-australian-business-number-abn)
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Three forms of ID (as well as passport / birth certificate)
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A police clearance (done during sign-up, $44)
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Two referees
Your skills, awareness and local knowledge are incredibly valuable.
You may have spent many years cooking, cleaning, socialising, gardening, preparing kindling wood for the fire, driving, shopping, caring, using technology - all manner of skills you now take for granted.
Did you know you could now be paid for helping local people with those things - and much more - if they have a Commonwealth Home Care Package?
These services and funded packages are essential to help local people stay living at home, in their own community, as they age.
If you have qualifications – great, but for many services, you don’t need more than your wonderful capability and ‘heart and soul’ for these essential services.
Other services need a nursing or allied health qualification.
There is no age limit. You can top up your pension with a couple of hours or more a week.
Choose your hours – we can be very flexible to fit in with your lifestyle – school hours only, not during school holidays, only evenings or weekends – whatever.
Example average hourly rates
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Social support: Weekday $49 to $58
Weekend $55 to $80
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Personal care​: Weekday $50 to $60
Weekend $62 to $85
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Minimum Rate $38