About the Role
Support people with disability to have the choice, control, and independence to live their best life. If you’re passionate about inclusivity, respect, and making a meaningful difference, this is the career move for you. Joining our Lifestyles (home care support) team, you will provide one-on-one support to individuals with disabilities in their own homes and accessing the community, with travel between clients and working short, split shifts required.
Responsibilities
- Ensure client safety, dignity, and person-centred support
- Assistance with daily living (including personal care)
- Maintain and monitor person-centred plans
- Documenting and progress note keeping
Requirements
- Must be able to commit to a variety of client session times (starting from 2 hours in length) between 6am and 8pm within Dee Why and surrounds.
- Willingness to travel between clients homes to support multiple clients each day is essential.
- Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including a National Criminal History Record Check and obtain an NDIS Worker Screening Check.
Skills
- Previous experience supporting people with disability in a home care and community setting
- Confidence and experience in manual handling, hoist transfers and providing personal care
- Previous experience providing HIDPA supports
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Australian Drivers Licence and reliable, insured vehicle
- Current First Aid and CPR Certificate
- Passionate about delivering Person-Centred care
Location
- Dee Why and surrounds
Work Type
- Permanent Part Time
- Casual
Experience Level
- Experience in providing support with daily personal activities and manual handling
Salary/Compensations
- Permanent Part Time hourly rate from $36.22
- Casual hourly rate from $45.27
Benefits
- Short shifts, providing flexibility for secondary employment or study commitments
- Increase your take home pay through Maxxia salary packaging benefits
- 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
- Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless, refugees and asylum seekers.
- Empowering people with disability to live life the way they choose is at the heart of how Life Without Barriers has operated for over 25 years.
Equal Opportunity
- We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.
