Disability Support Worker (Lifestyles). Casual - Blacktown/Greystanes
Life Without Barriers · AU
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About the Role
Joining our Lifestyles (home care support) team, you will provide one-on-one support to individuals with disabilities in their own homes. This role requires travel between clients and working short, split shifts. To provide the best support, you will have experience in providing high intensity daily personal activities (including complex bowel and catheter care) and manual handling (including hoist transfers). You must have availability for early morning and late afternoon shifts and be willing to commit to a variety of individual client sessions within the Blacktown & Greystanes area or western Sydney.
Responsibilities
- Provide High Intensity Daily Personal Activities (including complex bowel/catheter care)
- Assist with hoist transfers
- Assistance with daily living (including personal care and domestic tasks)
- Maintain and monitor person-centred plans
- Documenting and progress note keeping
Requirements
- Experience providing High Intensity Daily Personal Activities (HIDPA)
- Previous experience supporting people with disability in a home care setting
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Confidence and experience in manual handling and providing personal care
- Australian Drivers Licence and reliable, insured vehicle
- Current First Aid and CPR
- Willing to complete basic household chores
- Passionate about delivering Person-Centred care
- Must clear probity checks including a National Criminal History Record Check
- Must obtain an NDIS Clearance
Skills
- High Intensity Daily Personal Activities (HIDPA)
- Manual handling
- Personal care
- Verbal communication
Location
- Blacktown & Greystanes area
- Western Sydney
Work Type
- Casual
- Short shifts
- Split shifts
Experience Level
- Experience in providing high intensity daily personal activities
- Experience in manual handling
- Previous experience supporting people with disability in a home care setting
Salary/Compensations
- Casual hourly rate from $45.27
Benefits
- Make a positive impact on the lives of people with disability in your local community
- Short shifts, providing flexibility for secondary employment or study commitments
- 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)
- Reimbursed 0.99 cents per kilometre travelled between client sessions
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.
- 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.
- 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.