Disability Support Worker. Casual - Menai

Life Without Barriers; Sydney; Sur place; AUD 51 000 - 73 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Fitness Passport

Short shifts

Résumé du poste

Life Without Barriers is seeking a Casual Disability Support Worker in Menai to provide one-on-one home care to clients, with short shifts and travel between visits. Role includes high intensity daily personal activities (HIDPA), bowel and catheter care, manual handling and support with daily living tasks.

You’ll need a valid Australian driver’s licence and availability for early mornings and late afternoons, plus probity checks.

Qualifications

• Availability for early morning and late afternoon shifts.
• Experience providing High Intensity Daily Personal Activities (HIDPA).
• Home care experience and ability to work in clients' homes.
• Willing to undergo probity checks and NDIs clearance.

Responsabilités

• Provide high intensity medical support needs (including bowel/catheter care and PEG-feeding).
• Assist with daily living and personal care.
• Domestic assistance and meal support.
• Maintain person-centred plans and document progress notes.

Connaissances

HIDPA

Disability support

Manual handling

First Aid

CPR

Driver Licence

Description du poste

Disability Support Worker. Casual - Menai

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.

Empowering people with disability to live life the way they choose is at the heart of how Life Without Barriers has operated for over 25 years. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and continue this mission. Support people with disability to have the choice, control, and independence to live their best life. If you’re passionate about inclusivity, respect, and making a meaningful difference, this is the career move for you.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

Joining ourLifestyles (home care support) team, you willprovide one-on-one support to individuals with disabilities in their own homes, with travel between clients and working short, split shifts required.

Ideally you will have experience supporting people with a disability, providing high intensity daily personal activities (including bowel and catheter care) and manual handling (including hoist transfers).

To be considered for a role you must have availability for early morning and late afternoon shifts and be willing to commit to a variety of individual client sessions within Menai and surrounds. Note, shifts will be paid at a minimum of 2 hours and you will be reimbursed $1.05 cents per kilometre travelled between client sessions.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide high intensity medical support needs (including bowel/catheter care and PEG-feeding)


• Assistance with daily living (including personal care)


• Domestic assistance (support with household chores and meal times)


• Maintain and monitor person-centred plans


• Documenting and progress note keeping

Skills & Experience

• Experience providing High Intensity Daily Personal Activities (HIDPA)


• Previous experience support people with disabilityin a home care setting


• Confidence and experience in manual handling and providing personal care


• Australian Drivers Licence and reliable, insured vehicle


• Current First Aid and CPR


• Willing to complete basic household chores


• Passionate about delivering Person-Centred care

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including a National Criminal History Record Check and obtain an NDIS Clearance.

• Casual hourly rate from $45.27


• Make a positive impact on the lives of people with disability in your local community


• Short shifts, providing flexibility for secondary employment or study commitments


• Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a choice of gyms and pools across your area)

Applications close at midnight on Sunday 1st November.