Disability Support Worker

QSSS Pty Ltd; Sunshine Coast Regional; On-site; AUD 55,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training provided

Flexible shifts

Job summary

QSSS Pty Ltd on the Sunshine Coast is seeking a warm, compassionate Support Worker to assist a client with significant physical disabilities. The role involves high-intensity daily support, including mobility, personal care and faith-based activities in a home setting.

You will engage in faith discussions, support church and community involvement, and require patience, reliability and strong manual handling skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-intensity support (PEG, BT etc.) is highly regarded.
• Comfortable discussing Christian faith and supporting faith-based activities.
• Unrestricted driver's licence and confident driving a disability transport van.

Responsibilities

• PEG feeding and personal care, including showering and toileting.
• Mobility assistance and transfers; repositioning to prevent muscle spasms.
• Medication assistance as directed.
• Support communication through eye gaze and limited speech guidance.
• Household tasks and community access including church and social activities.
• Drive the disability transport van as required.

Skills

Disability support

High-intensity support

Manual handling

Eye gaze communication

Driving license

Team player

Empathy

Job description

Disability Support Workers Comfortable Supporting Christian Faith and Values Please Apply

Excellent salary: Weekdays @ $40.22, Evening @ $42.39, Night @ $42.95, Saturday @ $53.61, Sunday @ $68.63, Public Holiday @ $83.75

Build a genuine connection with a client whose Christian faith is an important part of her life

Support a smart, funny author and poet to live life her way

Training provided in High Intensity individual support needs for the right person

Mix of Day and Night shift availabilities preferred

Make a genuine connection through meaningful support

We're looking for a warm, compassionate and energetic Support Worker for a beautiful human with significant physical disabilities who values genuine connection with the people supporting her.

She enjoys getting out and about, meeting people, spending time at the gym and relaxing in her beautiful garden. Her Christian faith is an extremely important part of her life and identity, and she values being able to openly talk about her faith with the people supporting her. You do not need to actively practise Christianity yourself, but you should be comfortable engaging in conversations about faith, discussing the Bible and supporting her to participate in prayer, church and other aspects of her faith that are important to her.

About her support needs

She lives with Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA), a progressive neurological condition that significantly affects her movement, coordination and speech. She is still sharp as a tack, has a wicked sense of humour, and is an author and poet with plenty to say despite the challenges she experiences communicating.

She has extremely limited mobility and relies heavily on her Support Workers for most aspects of everyday life, from transfers and personal care to helping stretch and reposition her when her muscles spasm.

She has significant challenges with verbal communication and primarily uses eye gaze, together with some limited speech, to communicate. Patience, compassion, good listening skills and a genuine willingness to take the time to understand her are essential.

This is a hands-on, high-intensity support role involving:

• PEG feeding
• personal care including assisting with showering, toileting and morning and night time routine
• manual handling and mobility assistance
• medication assistance
• supporting communication and use of eye gaze
• household tasks
• community access, church and social activities
• driving her disability transport van.

About you

Personality and connection come first. We're looking for someone who:

• is comfortable openly discussing Christian faith, the Bible and prayer, and genuinely engaging with this important part of the client's life
• has disability support experience, with high-intensity support experience (PEG, BT etc.) highly regarded
• Is skilled in hoisting and general manual handling experience
• is warm, patient, reliable and genuinely interested in building a meaningful connection
• respects participant choice, independence and individual way of communicating
• is willing to learn specific high-intensity support routines
• works well within a team and can adapt when plans or routines change
• holds an unrestricted driver's licence and is confident driving her disability transport van.

What We're Looking For:

We're not just hiring skills, we're hiring people. You'll be:

• Enthusiastic and reliable
• Compassionate and committed
• Able to build strong rapport and trust
• A genuinely good human (this is a must!!)

Experience is important, but your attitude and personality matter even more. Training in her specific support needs will be provided to the right person.

We're looking for more than someone who can complete support tasks. We want someone who will get to know the person they support, understand what matters to her and help her live a life connected to her faith, relationships and community.

If you're an experienced Support Worker who is comfortable engaging with Christianity and supporting someone for whom faith is a very meaningful part of life, we'd love to hear from you.

Why Join QSSS?

Really simple, we are on a mission to completely disrupt the disability and aged care industry by providing supports in a way that most providers would say is impossible - and that is to give true choice, control and freedom to our Clients in every way possible.

Working with our Clients, you have the privilege to do what most do not get to do in their career, and that is to actually make a huge difference and make a positive impact in people’s lives each and every day. You can be a part of helping our Clients to live their absolute best life.

We want passionate, dedicated, proactive decent humans who genuinely want to make a positive difference in people’s lives.

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