Disability Support Worker - Great Pay Rate & Ongoing Long Hours

Ambition Health Group; Rockhampton Regional; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambition Health Group is seeking an experienced Disability Support Worker to assist an adult SIL participant with progressive neurological disability, complex care needs, and mobility and communication challenges. You will provide hands-on support, ensure dignity and safety, and work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

The role emphasizes calm, patient, reliable care, adherence to plans and policies, and engagement with community participation and daily activities.

Qualifications

• NDIS Worker Screening Check is required.
• Current First Aid and CPR certifications.
• Disability, Individual Support or Community Services qualification, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care including showering, dressing and continence care.
• Assist transfers, positioning and safe manual handling.
• Support wheelchair use and community participation.
• Monitor skin integrity and pressure care.
• Support mealtime, dysphagia-safe feeding and nutrition.
• Coordinate with allied-health professionals and other staff.
• Maintain dignity, choice and independence of the participant.

Skills

Patience

Observant

Safety-conscious

Person-centred care

Communication skills

Reliability

Education

NDIS Worker Screening Check

First Aid & CPR

Disability/Individual Support

Job description

Disability Support Worker - Great Pay Rate & Ongoing Long Hours

Meaningful work. Person-centred support. Make a real difference.

We are looking for experienced Disability Support Workers to support an adult participant living in Supported Independent Living (SIL) who has a progressive neurological disability and complex physical, mobility, communication and personal-care needs.

This is a rewarding, hands-on role for someone who is calm, patient, reliable and confident supporting complex physical needs while always maintaining the participant's dignity, choice, control and independence.

About the Role

You will provide high-quality support with:

• Personal care including showering, dressing, grooming, toileting and continence care.

• Transfers, positioning, repositioning and manual handling.

• Wheelchair support and community access.

• Pressure care and skin integrity monitoring.

• Communication and supported communication strategies.

• Mealtime and dysphagia support.

• Community participation, appointments, shopping and social activities.

• Medication assistance within organisational policies and role requirements.

• Following individual support plans, risk assessments, manual-handling procedures and allied-health recommendations.

• Working collaboratively with other support workers and allied-health professionals.

Complex Mealtime Support

Experience with the following is highly desirable:

• Experience with dysphagia, texture-modified diets and thickened fluids is highly desirable.

• Direct feeding and drinking assistance.

• Appropriate positioning and pacing.

• Recognising signs of swallowing difficulty.

• Understanding choking and aspiration risks.

Participant-specific mealtime and communication training will be provided where required.

Communication Is Key

We are particularly interested in workers who understand that person-centred support starts with listening and respecting the participant's communication style.

About You

You will ideally have experience supporting people with:

• Complex physical or neurological disabilities.

• Huntington's disease or similar progressive neurological conditions.

• Significant mobility limitations.

• Involuntary or unpredictable movements.

• High physical support needs.

• Complex personal care.

• Manual handling and transfers.

• Wheelchair use and accessible community participation.

• Dysphagia and mealtime management.

• Significant communication difficulties.

• Pressure care and repositioning.

Most importantly, you will be patient, observant, respectful, safety-conscious and genuinely person-centred.

You must be comfortable working with complex and changing needs and remain calm during transfers, involuntary movements, swallowing difficulties and other higher-risk situations.

Physical Requirements

This is a hands-on support role. Applicants must be physically capable of safely undertaking personal care, wheelchair support, transfers, positioning/repositioning and other manual-handling duties in accordance with current support plans and procedures.

What You'll Need

Applicants should have, or be able to meet, the relevant organisational and NDIS requirements, including:

• NDIS Worker Screening Check.

• Current First Aid and CPR.

• Relevant Disability, Individual Support or Community Services qualification, or equivalent experience.

• Relevant organisational compliance requirements.

• Current driver's licence where required.

• Willingness to complete participant-specific training and competency assessments.

• Current flu vaccination

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to build a meaningful working relationship with a participant and support them to live with dignity, choice, independence and genuine community participation.

If you are an experienced Disability Support Worker who takes pride in providing safe, respectful and high-quality complex support, we would love to hear from you.