Daylesford - Disability Support Worker

InLife Independent Living Ltd; Daylesford; On-site; AUD 55,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Regular shifts

Job summary

InLife Independent Living Ltd is seeking a dedicated disability support worker for regular shifts in Victoria. The role includes 1:1 support for a client in her 60s with high physical care needs, including overnight coverage.

A full driver’s licence and willingness to drive the client’s vehicle are required. We offer flexible morning/evening/weekend shifts, and after induction, a rate of $46.65 per hour on weekdays with salary packaging options to reduce tax.

Qualifications

• Good judgement, listening skills, willingness to learn and commitment to our values.
• Confidence to navigate day-to-day challenges calmly and thoughtfully.
• Experience with high medical needs including complex bowel and catheter care.
• Experience supporting people with high physical needs, manual handling and hoist transfers.
• Experience in personal care (showering/dressing) and assistance with domestic duties (meal prep/housekeeping).
• Great patience and rapport-building with the client.
• Enthusiasm and passion for supporting people with disabilities to live great lives.
• Commitment to team-based care with guidance from professionals (e.g., physiotherapy programs).
• Full driver’s licence and willingness to drive client’s vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 support for a client with high physical needs.
• Deliver 24/7 care with inactive overnights.
• Support 2:1 morning shifts.

Skills

Disability support

Manual handling

Hoist transfers

Personal care

Domestic assistance

Active listening

Team collaboration

Driver license

Job description

• Are you a fantastic disability support worker?
• Regular shifts, flexibility to work mornings, evenings, weekends, sleepovers
• $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 in her 60's needing 1:1 high physical support needs, 24/7 care with inactive overnights, 2:1 morning shifts.

To do a great job, you’ll need:

• Good judgement and common sense, listening skills, a willingness to learn and a commitment to our values.
• Confidence to navigate day-to-day challenges calmly and thoughtfully
• Experience with high medical needs including complex bowel and catheter care
• Experience supporting people with high physical needs, manual handling and hoist transfers.
• Experience in personal care (showering and dressing) and assistance with domestic duties (meal preparation and housekeeping).
• Have great patience and be willing to put in the time and energy to build rapport with client
• Enthusiasm and passion for supporting people with disabilities to live great lives
• Commitment to working with a care team approach, including guidance from professionals. For example, supporting our clients to complete a regular physiotherapy program
• Full drivers licence and be willing and comfortable with driving clients vehicle

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.