Daylesford - Disability Support Worker

InLife; Daylesford; On-site; AUD 86,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

InLife in Victoria offers disability support roles with regular shifts and flexibility for mornings, evenings, weekends and sleepovers. After induction, pay is $44.54 per hour on weekdays, with salary packaging benefits.

We support over 250 clients and value independence and dignity. This role requires high physical support, complex medical needs, and a strong commitment to a team approach.

Qualifications

• Experience in high medical needs including complex bowel and catheter care.
• Experience supporting people with high physical needs and hoist transfers.
• Experience in personal care and domestic duties (meal prep and housekeeping).
• Experience working with a care team and following professional guidance.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 disability support with high physical care needs.
• Assist with daily living tasks, mobility, personal care and domestic duties.
• Apply hoist transfers and manual handling as required.
• Collaborate with the care team and follow physiotherapy plans.

Skills

Good judgement and common sense

Listening skills

Willingness to learn

Commitment to values

Confidence in day-to-day challenges

High medical needs experience

Manual handling and hoist transfers

Personal care experience

Rapport building with client

Patience and energy for care

Enthusiasm for disability support

Team-care approach

Driver's licence and driving clients'車

Job description

• Are you a fantastic disability support worker?
• Regular shifts, flexibility to work mornings, evenings, weekends, sleepovers
• $44.54 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.

• 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

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.

We encourage all of our staff to be vaccinated for COVID-19 and current recommendations about vaccination can be found on ATAGI website.

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.

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.

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