NDIS Local Area Coordinator - Enable Inclusive Living

Blue Sky; Coffs Harbour; Hybrid; AUD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Sky Community Services in Coffs Harbour, NSW, is seeking a Local Area Coordinator to support eligible people with disability to access the NDIS and to implement their plans. This full-time, fixed-term role runs until 30 June 2027, based out of our Coffs Harbour office, with a focus on person-centred support and community inclusion.

The successful candidate will have NDIS understanding, strong communication, and stakeholder liaison skills, and a commitment to diversity, inclusion, and

Qualifications

• Relevant qualifications, skills or lived/work experience transferable to delivering Local Area Coordination services to a high professional standard.
• Demonstrated understanding of the NDIS, including participant pathways, plan implementation, capacity building, and the broader service and community support systems.
• Ability to deliver supports that are person-centred, strengths-based, solutions-focused, culturally safe, and aligned with human rights and inclusion principles.

Responsibilities

• Supports eligible people with disability to access the NDIS and to implement their NDIS Plan.
• Assists NDIS participants, their families and carers to identify and pursue goals that enable participants to live a good life.
• Builds the capacity of participants, their families and carers to exercise choice and control, and to manage their NDIS Plan and lives as independently as possible.
• Builds the capacity of people with disability who are not eligible for the Scheme, their families, carers and broader circles of support to generate options and implement solutions, and to access other services and supports within the wider service system and community.
• Builds community capacity for greater inclusion of people with disability, and creates and utilises beneficial linkages in the community to expand options and possibilities for people with disability.

Skills

NDIS knowledge

Person-centred

Communication skills

Stakeholder liaison

Workload management

Education

NDIS related qualification (preferred)

Tools

IT systems proficiency

Job description

Blue Sky Community Services in Coffs Harbour, NSW, is seeking a Local Area Coordinator to support eligible people with disability to access the NDIS and to implement their plans. This full-time, fixed-term role runs until 30 June 2027, based out of our Coffs Harbour office, with a focus on person-centred support and community inclusion.

The successful candidate will have NDIS understanding, strong communication, and stakeholder liaison skills, and a commitment to diversity, inclusion, and