Support Worker - Cessnock Community Supports - Casual

Challenge Community Services; Cessnock; On-site; AUD 62,000 - 68,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fitness Passport access

Job summary

Challenge Community Services in Cessnock seeks a Casual Support Worker to empower people with disabilities through meaningful activities, in-home support, and high-quality care. You’ll assist with daily living, build skills, and enable independence via activities like cooking, crafts, music, and community outings.

Experience with high-intensity supports (catheter care and enteral feeding) is valued. Shifts may include afternoons, evenings and sleepovers.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Able to prioritise and problem-solve under pressure.
• Flexible availability for shift work, including evenings, weekends and sleepovers.

Responsibilities

• Support clients with daily living and medical needs where required.
• Encourage independence and skill-building through activities and in-home supports.
• Provide tailored, community-based support to individual goals and plans.
• Build positive, respectful relationships with clients and their families.

Skills

Strong communication

Relationship-building

Flexible availability

Driver’s licence

Education

Certificate III or IV in Disability Support

Tools

Microsoft Word

Outlook

Job description

Support Worker - Cessnock Community Supports - Casual

Challenge Community Services – Cessnock NSW

As a Support Worker, you’ll empower people with disabilities to build confidence, skills, and independence through meaningful activities, in-home support, and high-quality care.

From cooking, music, and crafts to community outings and leisure sports, you’ll help create positive, enriching experiences every day. You’ll also bring experience inHigh Intensity Supports, includingCatheter Care and Enteral Feeding, to support clients with complex needs. Some shifts may include afternoons, evenings, and sleepovers.

• SCHAD’s Award Level 2Pay rates from$36.22- $39.53 (base rate) or $45.28 - $49.41 (casual rate)
• Fitness Passport access for you and your family (eligibility criteria applies)
• Real job satisfaction-make a difference every day
• Safety and Wellbeing support via Sonder

Duties:

• Support clients with daily living and medical needs where required
• Encourage independence and skill-building through activities such as cooking, crafts, music, sports, and reading
• Provide in-home and community-based support tailored to individual goals
• Build positive, respectful relationships with clients and their families
• Handle challenges with empathy, patience, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to actively support participants in a range of activities, including outdoor activities and swimming, with craft skills such as sewing and knitting highly regarded to align with current Community Supports activities.

Skills and Experience:

• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Resilient, adaptable, and confident supporting people from diverse backgrounds
• Able to prioritise and problem-solve under pressure
• Flexible availability (shift work, weekends, public holidays, sleepovers)
• Confident using Microsoft Word and Outlook
• Current Australian Driver’s Licence, Working With Children Check, and NSW NDIS Worker Screening Check
• Able to pass a National Criminal History Check
• Experience supporting high-needs disability clients
• Access to a personal vehicle for work use, if required
• Certificate III or IV in Disability Support (or equivalent, desirable)
• Understanding of NDIA processes (desirable)
• Handy craft skills such as sewing, knitting, or crocheting (desirable)

About Us:

Since 1958, Challenge Community Services has been supporting people, strengthening communities and creating opportunities across regional New South Wales and South East Queensland.

We provide disability services, foster care, allied health and social enterprise opportunities that empower people to live their best lives.

Our work is driven by a simple belief: everyone deserves the opportunity to belong, grow and thrive. Every role at Challenge Community Services contributes to making a meaningful difference in the lives of the people and communities we support.

Confidential enquiries can be made by contacting Kathryn Brown

Closing Date - 13th November 2026

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we work and live, and pay my respects to their elders past and present.