Camberwell - Disability Support Worker

InLife Independent Living Ltd; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 105,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Career progression

Generous benefits

Job summary

InLife Independent Living Ltd in Victoria is seeking a dedicated disability support worker for evening shifts on Wednesdays and Fridays. You will provide in-home support, personal care, and community access to a highly independent client, while upholding our values and safety standards.

Join our not-for-profit team and benefit from salary packaging, career progression opportunities, and a supportive culture that aims to empower people with disability to live independently and with dignity.

Qualifications

• Experience in disability support and personal care.
• Ability to support clients with complex needs (spinal cord injury, bowel care).
• Willingness to work evening shifts, sleepovers and community access.

Responsibilities

• Provide in-home support, personal care and domestic assistance.
• Support client with daily living activities and physiotherapy guidance as directed.
• Assist with transfers, mobility, and equipment handling.
• Engage in community activities and maintain client independence.
• Collaborate with families and care professionals to meet goals.

Skills

Good judgement

Active listening

Flexibility

Empathy

Patience

Team collaboration

Driver's license

Job description

• Are you a fantastic disability support worker?
• Available Wednesday and Friday evenings
• $46.65 p/h weekdays after induction, plus salary packaging (pay less tax)

About us

We’re a rapidly scaling, not-for-profit disability support provider that believes in positively transforming the lives of people with disability. In doing so, we aim to create the highest quality agency we can, ideally reshaping the sector as a whole.

This means we often do things differently. Since we began in 2015, we’ve made it our mission to examine every part of what a support provider does – from how we structure our teams, to how we recruit and roster, to how we ensure the highest quality support, to how technology acts as an enabler for all that we do.

Our clients tell us they notice this difference, and for many it’s had a profound impact on their lives. Supporting more than 250 clients across metropolitan and regional Victoria and only continuing to grow, we want the people who join us to also believe disability support should enable a life of independence and dignity.

Looking for staff to support a client who is highly independent and actively self-directs her care. Lives with quadriplegia due to a congenital cervical spinal cord injury.

To do a great job, you’ll need:

• Good judgement and common sense, with strong listening skills, a willingness to learn, and a genuine commitment to our values.
• Confidence and resilience to navigate day-to-day challenges calmly, thoughtfully and respectfully.
• Flexibility and availability to work a variety of shifts, including sleepovers, daytime support and community access, as well as evening in-home support and household duties. You’ll also need to be committed to ongoing shifts more than twice a week.
• Patience, empathy and persistence, with a genuine willingness to invest the time and energy needed to build a strong rapport and trusting relationship with the client.
• Enthusiasm and passion for supporting people with disability to live fulfilling, independent and meaningful lives.
• A strong commitment to a care-team approach, working collaboratively with families and professionals and following guidance to support the client’s goals, for example, assisting with a regular physiotherapy program.
• Experience with personal care (showering and dressing) and assistance with domestic duties.
• Experience supporting people with a physical disability including manual handling, transfers/use of equipment and confident in hoisting.
• Complex bowel and catheter care experience
• Experience supporting clients with spinal cord injury (highly desirable)
• Comfortable working in the family home with a small pet dog. The dog mainly stays outdoors but may occasionally be inside.
• Full drivers licence and be willing and comfortable with driving clients vehicle
• We are looking to support clients based in Camberwell

As part of our recruitment process, certain checks will be undertaken with your permission, including an NDIS Worker Screening Check that you must have before you can start work.

InLife is committed to ensuring the rights, safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. We have a zero tolerance of child abuse and every InLife employee has a responsibility to make sure all children and young people are safe and feel safe.

Benefits

• We offer great pay, generous benefits and a supportive team culture
• You can also access salary packaging (can mean extra take-home pay)
• Opportunity for career progression - a clear career path for assistants who want to progress to be key worker

A word about diversity and inclusion

At InLife, diversity and inclusion is part of our DNA. We celebrate the amazing differences we all bring to our work and we actively ensure that everyone feels safe and supported in our workplaces.

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone and our hiring decisions will never be based on things such as your gender identity, disability, age, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or cultural background - because they simply aren’t relevant to doing an awesome job (and you are protected from this kind of discrimination under Australian law)

We also know that we continue to learn more about inclusion every day, so if there is something you think we could do differently to make InLife a place you could picture yourself working, we’re all ears.