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About the Role

As a Disability Support Worker, you will provide person-centred active support to people living with disability in shared housing or their own homes. This role involves assisting with personal care and daily living, and requires availability for a 24/7 roster.

Responsibilities

• Support clients with mental health challenges, complex needs, and high behaviours
• Assist with personal care tasks (e.g. bathing, dressing) and manual handling
• Availability for short-notice shifts and sleepovers is essential
• Implement person-centred active support
• Ability to follow behaviour support plans
• Log daily care and changes in needs to ensure informed, coordinated support

Requirements

• An unrestricted New South Wales driver’s licence and access to a reliable vehicle
• Demonstrated ability to use basic technology and software on a mobile and desktop
• A current First Aid Certificate, which includes the course HLTAID003 or HLTAID011
• Successful candidates will be required to clear all state-based probity checks, including but not limited to a National Criminal History Record Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check.

Location

• Penrith

Work Type

• Casual
• 24/7 roster

Salary/Compensations

• Pay rates starting from $45.28 (casual) as per the SCHADS Award

Benefits

• Access to employee assistance programs (EAP) and Fitness Passport for personal wellbeing
• Enjoy salary packaging on everyday living expenses (including mortgage, rent and bills)

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.
• 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.

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.