About the Role
Support people with disability living in shared housing, providing personal care and daily living assistance. Successful candidates will work within a varied environment which may include behaviours of concern, high medical needs, high intensity daily personal activities, and heavy hoisting and manual handling.
Responsibilities
- Follow person-centred support and behaviour plans
- Provide assistance with High Intensity daily personal activities
- Facilitate client goal achievement through meaningful activities
- Maintain thorough record keeping
- Build positive relationships with clients, families and colleagues
- Advocate for client choice and control
Requirements
- Experience working with people with disability
- Previous experience working behaviours of concern
- Prior experience working with high medical needs
- Confidence in driving a wheelchair van
- Manual Handling and Hoisting experience
- An unrestricted Australian driver’s licence
- A current First Aid and CPR Certificate
- Clear probity checks including a National Criminal History Record Check
- Obtain an NDIS Clearance
Skills
- Personal care
- Daily living support
- Behaviours of concern management
- High medical needs support
- High intensity daily personal activities assistance
- Hoisting
- Manual handling
- Driving a wheelchair van
- Record keeping
- Relationship building
- Client advocacy
Location
- Rosebery
- Chifley
- Mascot
- Matraville
- Bondi Junction
- Kensington
Work Type
- Casual
- Short shifts (3.5 or 4 hours)
- Sleepover shifts
- 7 day roster
Experience Level
- Experienced
- Skilled
Salary/Compensations
- Casual hourly rate from $43.22
Benefits
- Join a leading social purpose organisation
- Access to wellbeing program for employees and families
- Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a choice of gyms and pools across your area)
About the Company
- Empowering people with disability to live life the way they choose for over 25 years.
- A leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia.
- Supports children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness.
- Works with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.
- A community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.
- Wants to employ people who reflect the diversity of its clients.
- Encourages people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.
