Camberwell - Disability Support Worker

InLife; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 63,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Great pay & benefits

Career progression

Job summary

InLife is seeking a dedicated disability support worker in Victoria, with shifts on Wednesday and Friday evenings. The role involves in-home support for a highly independent client living with quadriplegia, including daily living tasks, personal care, and mobility assistance.

Salary packaging and supportive team culture are offered. Applicants should have strong judgement, resilience, flexibility, and a genuine passion for enabling independence and dignity for people with disability.

Qualifications

• Good judgement and common sense.
• Confidence and resilience to navigate day-to-day challenges.
• Flexibility and availability for varied shifts, including evenings.
• Patience and empathy in building rapport with the client.

Responsibilities

• Provide evening in-home support and household duties.
• Support a client with quadriplegia in daily activities and mobility tasks.
• Work with the care team and families to follow care plans and physiotherapy routines.

Skills

Good judgement

Confidence and resilience

Flexibility

Patience and empathy

Enthusiasm for disability support

Care-team approach

Experience with personal care

Manual handling

Catheter care

Spinal cord injury experience

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.

• 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.

• 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.