Shepparton - Disability Support Worker

InLife; City of Greater Shepparton; On-site; AUD 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Transport reimbursement

Job summary

InLife is seeking a dedicated disability support worker in Victoria to provide high-quality care for clients with physical disabilities. You will engage in varied shifts, including early mornings, evenings, weekends, and sleepovers, and may support transport using your own vehicle with reimbursement.

Induction followed by ongoing rosters, with salary packaging available to maximise take-home pay. Commitment to the rights and wellbeing of clients is essential, with a focus on independence and

Qualifications

• Experience supporting people with physical disability including transfers/use of equipment and hoisting.
• Experience in personal care (showering and dressing).
• Willingness to work varied shifts including mornings, evenings, weekends and sleepovers.

Responsibilities

• Support clients with daily living activities and promote independence.
• Assist with transfers, mobility and use of equipment as needed.
• Provide personal care and domestic assistance as part of a care team.
• Support clients during physio programs and community access activities.

Skills

Disability support

Hoisting

Personal care

Domestic duties

Transport support

Job description

• Are you a fantastic disability support worker?
• Regular shifts, flexibility to work mornings, evenings, weekends and sleepovers
• $44.54 p/h weekdays after induction, plus salary packaging (pay less tax)

About us

We’re a rapidly scaling, not-for-profit disability support provider that believes in positively transforming the lives of people with disability. In doing so, we aim to create the highest quality agency we can, ideally reshaping the sector as a whole.

This means we often do things differently. Since we began in 2015, we’ve made it our mission to examine every part of what a support provider does – from how we structure our teams, to how we recruit and roster, to how we ensure the highest quality support, to how technology acts as an enabler for all that we do.

Our clients tell us they notice this difference, and for many it’s had a profound impact on their lives. Supporting more than 250 clients across metropolitan and regional Victoria and only continuing to grow, we want the people who join us to also believe disability support should enable a life of independence and dignity

• Experience supporting people with a physical disability including transfers/use of equipment and confident in hoisting
• Experience in personal care (showering and dressing)
• Assistance with Domestic duties
• Enthusiasm and passion for supporting people with disabilities to live great lives.
• Have great patience and be willing to put in the time and energy to build rapport with our client
• Willing to work with a care team approach and incorporate the guidance of professionals. This would include supporting our clients to undertake things like their physio programs, community access for example.
• Good judgement and common sense, listening skills, a willingness to learn and a commitment to our values.
• Willing to work varied shifts with varied hours including early mornings, evenings and weekends together with some short shifts, sleepovers and active night shifts. We also need you to be able to commit to ongoing shifts.
• Full drivers licence and be willing and comfortable with providing transport in your own vehicle sometimes (we reimburse you for costs)

As part of our recruitment process, certain checks will be undertaken with your permission, including an NDIS Worker Screening Check that you must have before you can start work.

We encourage all of our staff to be vaccinated for COVID-19 and current recommendations about vaccination can be found on ATAGI website.

InLife is committed to ensuring the rights, safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. We have a zero tolerance of child abuse and every InLife employee has a responsibility to make sure all children and young people are safe and feel safe.

• We offer great pay, generous benefits and a supportive team culture
• You can also access salary packaging (can mean extra take-home pay)
• Opportunity for career progression - a clear career path for assistants who want to progress to be key worker

A word about diversity and inclusion

At InLife, diversity and inclusion is part of our DNA. We celebrate the amazing differences we all bring to our work and we actively ensure that everyone feels safe and supported in our workplaces.

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone and our hiring decisions will never be based on things such as your gender identity, disability, age, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or cultural background - because they simply aren’t relevant to doing an awesome job (and you are protected from this kind of discrimination under Australian law)

We also know that we continue to learn more about inclusion every day, so if there is something you think we could do differently to make InLife a place you could picture yourself working, we’re all ears.