Male Disability Support Worker

2 weeks ago

Chirnside Park, Australia Supportive and Hollistic Care Full time

Male General support worker role

The role is to provide support to a young Participant who has a variety of disabilities as well as having mental health needs.

**The role will include**:

- In home support
- Companionship
- Social and community access
- Supporting developing independant living skills
- Transport using your own vehicle is required at times
- Personal care

**How to support the Participant;**
- Uphold participants' rights: Understand and respect the rights of the participant. Speak up and support the participant if those rights are not respected.
- Communicate effectively: Support participants to express themselves and adjust your communication style to suit their needs and preferences.
- Build trusted relationships: Develop and maintain professional relationships with the participants' and others present in their lives (friends, family, etc.), based on mutual trust and respect.
- Work collaboratively: Recognise the roles and expertise of each person in the participant's support team and work with them to provide support. Your Impact
- Show self-awareness: Think about how your actions impact on the quality of support you provide, seek feedback, and keep improving your practice.
- Work within your capabilities: Know your role and responsibilities, and when to seek support from others to develop your capabilities.
- Look after yourself: Take care of yourself and manage your wellbeing. Support Me
- Understand what a good life means to the participant: Find out what a good life means to participants' without imposing your own assumptions.
- Support participants to make their own choices: Support participants to understand, explore and think creatively about their options, and uphold their decisions.
- Build the capacity of the participants' you work with: Understand how the person you are supporting would like to participate in society and support them to build their knowledge and connections so they can live the life they want. Be Present
- Observe and respond flexibly to the changing needs of participants': Be present, pay attention to how the needs of participants may change, and respond accordingly.
- Manage health and safety: Support participants to look after their health. Take action and manage any health and safety risks to them or yourself.
- Engage and motivate participants': Support participants to build on their strengths and engage them in meaningful ways. Check In
- Review quality of support and service: Work with participants to make sure services and supports are enabling them to live the life they want and support them to make changes when needed.
- Support participants to speak up: Build understanding and confidence of participants to exercise their rights and support them to provide feedback and to raise any concerns, complaints or incidents.

About the Participant:
Is a male Participant aged 64. He has a diagnosis of progressive aphasia, a form of Alzheimers significantly affecting;
- Language skills
- Problem solving skills
- Motor skills
- Memory loss
- Ability to attend to daily activity of living activities
- Loss of bodily functions

The Participant was a pastor of a church for many years, enjoys music especially gospel, enjoys to paint, go for coffee and hiking.

**Job Type**: Casual

**Salary**: $35.00 - $42.00 per hour

Expected hours: 6 - 36 per week

**Benefits**:

- Professional development assistance
- Travel reimbursement

Schedule:

- Shift work

Supplemental pay types:

- Overtime pay
- Penalty rates

Licence/Certification:

- First Aid Certification (preferred)
- Working with Children Check (preferred)
- NDIS Worker Screening Check (preferred)
- National Police Certificate (preferred)
- Driver Licence (preferred)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (preferred)

Ability to Commute:

- Mont Albert, VIC (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Mont Albert, VIC: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Expected Start Date: 11/03/2024

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