Disability Support Worker

seek.com.au; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

seek.com.au seeks a dedicated support worker to assist a person with a disability at home in Melbourne. The role involves intimate personal care, mobility assistance, and helping manage daily routines with sensitivity to anxiety and ADHD.

You’ll provide practical support across home tasks, community access and family activities while respecting privacy and choice. You will be part of a small, trusted team, must be reliable, and able to follow directions while also taking initiative when needed.

Qualifications

• Emotionally aware, resilient and responsive to changing support needs.
• Open-minded with great communication skills.
• Sensitive and adaptable to different personalities, cultural backgrounds and family/house dynamics.
• Experience with young children or willingness to assist with parenting tasks.
• Genuine, reliable with integrity and respect for confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Transferring in and out of bed, chairs and mobility assistance.
• Showering, grooming, shaving.
• Toileting.
• Handling ventilator and mobility equipment.
• Assisting with parenting tasks and supporting active father role.
• Community access.
• Housework, meal preparation and light domestic assistance.
• Admin tasks, note taking.

Job description

I am a person with a disability, I have autism, ADHD and I am a powerchair and ventilator user. I am heavily involved in disability sport and currently working a full time job in the disability sector. I need assistance with my daily living tasks, community access, parenting responsibilities and someone who will help me culminate my career in sport and the work that I do.

I enjoy a variety of sports, playing and watching! I love video games, binge watching tv shows and heading to the cinemas for newly released movies. Sometimes I like doing all of those alone with a support worker, other times I may be with friends or family. There are mutiple family/friend dynamics that swap and change each day and week.

I need assistance with all aspects of my daily care, as well as support with anxiety and ADHD, especially around task management and decision making. I’m young & fun and like my care to feel carefree. This is an intimate job, as you’ll be assisting me with personal hygiene and other things, so I really look for someone who is fun, understanding, responsible, clean, can take direction but also take intiative.I am an introvert and have anxiety and so I am looking for someone who can understand when I am feeling anxious and need support even when I cannot communicate this.

Supporting me means:

I make my own decisions, I plan and organise my own life and I can make my own choices but sometimes I do need support with this, especially when I am overwhelmed and anxious. Your role is to provide the support I need and choose so I can live the life I want.

Working closely with me in my own home you'll assist with a wide range of personal daily activities such as:

• Transferring in and out of bed, chairs and providing other mobility assistance
• Showering, grooming, shaving
• Toileting
• Handling ventilator and mobility equipment
• Assisting me in my role as an active father, including tasks involving young children
• Community access
• Housework, meal preparation and other light domestic assistance
• Admin tasks, note taking etc

You’ll be part of my ongoing support team, which means you’ll get to build long-term professional relationships with me and my other support staff.

Successful Support Workers are:

• Emotionally aware, resilient and responsive to changing support needs
• Open-minded with great communcation skills
• Sensitive and adaptable to different personalities, cultural backgrounds and family/house dynamics
• Experience with young children or a strong willingness to assist with parenting tasks
• Genuine, reliable with inherent integrity and respect for individual choice and confidentiality

You’ll also need to:

• Be available to workfrom 6am in the morning, evenings and some weekends.There may also be overnight shifts available.
• Have a current driver licence and be able to drive my van.
• Be capable of doing a physically demanding role - you'll be lifting, bending, carrying, crouching, driving and working in restricted spaces
• Maintain a high level of reliability and punctuality within a busy family household.