Disability Support - Multiple Roles

Home Help Hire Qld; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Home Help Hire Qld is seeking a capable support worker to join our team in a centre-based role in Kippa Ring, Moreton Bay. The role focuses on children and teenagers with disabilities, delivering personal care, behavioural support, and development activities in both centre and home settings.

You will bring high level behavioural support, critical thinking, risk management, and a warm, engaging personality to ensure emotional and physical safety while teaching new skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum Certificate III level qualification in Individual Support, Disability, Education Support, Allied Health or related field.
• Current First Aid and CPR qualifications are required.
• NDIS Worker Screening and Qld WWC checks must be obtained before applying.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care, mobility support, and daily living assistance.
• Support children, adolescents with disabilities, and neurodiverse clients in centre and home settings.
• Follow written group plans and participate in strategy reviews for complex behaviours.
• Manage and document progress, behaviours, and safety concerns in a neuro-affirming way.
• Support training and development activities, including skills building and emotional regulation.

Skills

Behavioural support

Critical thinking

Risk assessment

Communication

Flexibility

Education

Certificate III in Individual Support

First Aid & CPR

Job description

Are you a capable, confident, calm, kind and professional support worker focused on building skills and encouraging clients to achieve their goals?

We are seeking a skilled support worker to working alongside our team with our clients. This team support role is centre-based in Kippa Ring, Moreton Bay. Our centre based clients are typically children and teenagers with a range of disabilities.

Our home and community based support clients live in Moreton Bay, and the successful applicants will possess a range of home care skills and domestic skills that will engage, support and bring assistance and joy to our client's lives. You should be current with simple wound care, diabetes management, vision impairment support, food preparation skills and skills in identifying signs of mental health concerns - an all round generalist.

For the role you will need to bring high level behavioural support skills, critical thinking, risk management and negotiation skills along with your warm, engaged and fun-loving personality. You will be able to demonstrate sound decision making that promotes emotional and physical safety, as well as teaching skills. A trauma informed background is beneficial, and you must be supportive and inclusive of diversity - cultural, gender, neurological, religious.

Candidates must have a minimum of 1-2 years experience working with children and teenagers with disabilities, and a range of transferable skills to meet adult needs.

This is not a simple support role. We work with multiple neurodiverse clients, many of whom are non-verbal and are high risk behaviourally. To do this we provide a unique model of support in a purpose built centre, with community access plans and home based supports as well. You need to be able to follow a written group plan, contribute effectively to strategy reviews and hold your own when managing complex behaviours, while maintaining a neuro-affirming approach to support.

Candidates must have a minimum of 1 year practical experience in behavioural support and managing complex behaviours in disability support settings.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS:

1. Qld WWC and NDIS Worker Screening check

You must have obtained your Qld WWC and NDIS Worker Screening check before applying for this position.

3. Drivers Licence, Car and comprehensive insurance

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Minimum Certificate III level qualification in Individual Support, Disability, Education Support, Allied Health (OT, Speech, Physio), Early Childhood Education or a relevant field. Higher level tertiary qualifications will be highly valued and open different opportunities for promotion and development.

We welcome applications from students studying in the allied health fields at university.

2. Current First Aid and CPR Qualifications

To physically handle the demands of this role you will need to be fit, healthy and have no lingering injuries that prevent you from a fast unexpected run at pace. You will have quick reactions. You will be happy and confident in your ability to get down to play and engage with children on the floor, and to support them while they climb and swim. You must be capable of promoting a healthy lifestyle to children, teenagers and adults in our care.

On offer is a fun-loving, considered risk-taking team who will help you get the best from your clients. We offer internal and external training opportunities, the use of company vehicles, stable and reliable shifts for those who can do the work successfully. With regular team meetings and consultative management, an active EAP in place, we offer a supportive and dynamic work environment.

TASKS

Each day is different, you may find yourself mixing bicarb volcanoes one moment, then dressing a wound the next. We provide personal care, including toilet training skills when needed, shower support, grooming, mobility assistance, travel, cooking, skills development, communication assistance and support, emotional support and regulation. We manage complex behaviour every day. We drive with children. We swim with all our clients. We support as support is needed.

HOURS

Days can start from 7am and we can work through till 7pm. Our clients hours vary, however we have at least 20hrs per week on offer for the right candidates. The more flexible you are with your availability, the more hours on offer. You will need to be available Saturday's, and at least 3 weekdays until 7pm.

There is solid potential to grow your hours for the right fit for the clients and team. Pay is negotiable with qualifications and experience. This is an employment position, ABN holders need not apply.