Hospitality Assistant - Maitland

Join Our Team as a Hospitality Assistant!

Location: Maitland - Yorke Peninsula

Type: Casual 

Looking for a rewarding role in a close-knit country community? Join Eldercare in Maitland, where your friendly attitude and hospitality skills can brighten the day of residents and help keep their home sparkling clean and welcoming.

At Eldercare, we believe aged care is about more than service—it’s about comfort, connection, and community. As one of South Australia’s leading not-for-profit providers, we offer more than just a job—we offer a place where you’ll feel you truly belong.

About the role

This is a hands-on, heart-filled role supporting our aged care team with:

• Laundry services—keeping things fresh, clean, and infection free

• General cleaning across resident rooms, communal spaces, kitchens, and laundries

• Helping with meal prep, beverage service, and kitchen duties

Every shift is an opportunity to make someone’s day better—with a clean room, a warm meal, or a caring conversation.

What you will bring

• Some aged care or health care experience (a plus, but not a dealbreaker!)

• A cheerful, can-do attitude and great communication skills

• Pride in your presentation and your work

• Flexibility to help cover shifts when teammates need support

• A current Food Handling Certificate

• A genuine desire to care for others

 Why Choose Eldercare? 

• Enjoy meaningful work in a welcoming rural setting

• Not-for-profit salary packaging to boost your take-home pay

• Ongoing professional development and learning opportunities

• Be part of a supportive, inclusive team where everyone’s effort counts

• Make a lasting impact in your local community

Bring your drive, passion, and people-first mindset—we’re on the lookout for someone who’s all about quality outcomes and lives our values of respect, accountability, and connection every step of the way. If that sounds like you, we’d love to welcome you aboard!

To view the Job and Person Specification for this role please click here.

 To work for Eldercare, you are required to have a police clearance valid for working in aged care (unsupervised contact with vulnerable people) and the clearance needs to be less than 12 months since date of issue.

As per Eldercare’s Employee Immunisation Policy, all Eldercare employees are required to:

• Be vaccinated against seasonal influenza by no later than 1 June each year
• Be vaccinated against COVID-19 as per current ATAGI guidelines

Exemptions on a temporary or permanent basis can only be approved by Eldercare’s Chief Executive. 

Eldercare welcomes and respects the diversity that our residents, staff and volunteers bring. Regardless of their culture, religion, spirituality, age, gender, sexuality, disability, socio-economic background or personal experiences, our people are included and respected.

Eldercare is proud to be a Rainbow Tick accredited organisation. We are committed to supporting our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) residents, staff and volunteers to ensure they feel included and safe.

Eldercare encourages respectful relationships and does not accept any form of gender‑based violence in the workplace. Eldercare is committed to preventing violence against women and is proud to be a White Ribbon accredited workplace to support victims of abuse.

All employees can expect to receive fair and equal treatment and to be free from discrimination in all aspects of their life with Eldercare.

Eldercare is proud to provide a smoke-free environment across all sites.