Disability Support Worker

**About the Organisation**

Vital Care Accommodation and Respite is an NDIS registered provider of specialist support services to participants living in the Greater Sydney and Illawarra regions respectively.

At Vital Care, we are committed to empowering and supporting our participants to achieve their short and long-term goals and positive outcomes.

Vital Care provides a range of support services to NDIS participants including, but not limited to:

- SIL Accommodation
- Short-Term Accommodation
- Medium-Term Accommodation
- Community engagement
- Domestic assistance
- Transport assistance
- Speech Pathology
- Occupational Therapy
- Functionality Assessments
- Management Plans

With a growing participant base and growing team, we are always searching for committed, professional, and compassionate individuals to join our dedicated support team

At Vital Care, we are seeking individuals who align with our organisations core values and morals, and possess the ability to implement compassion and nurture into their supports delivered.

**About the role**

We are seeking multiple Support Workers to join our dedicated supported-independent living (SIL) team and social and community engagement team (SECT) located in:

- Oran Park
- Edmondson Park
- Auburn
- Calderwood
- Dapto
- Wollongong

As a Support Worker in our team, your key duties and responsibilities will include the ability to:

- Build rapport and collaborate effectively with staff/management, participants, their family and friends to achieve a positive outcome and ensure a smooth flow of service delivery throughout the course of the participant's plan.
- Assist with liaising with participants family and friends to explore new goals, ambitions, promote and empower participants to achieve their goals and provide a medium of strong communication.
- Increase participants skills with your active support and promote independence by enhancing their skills, and personal development.
- Provide regular and frequent quality and professional support in line with participants plans, needs, and wants.
- Assisting participants with accessing their social community to engage with their friends and social groups to promote a healthier lifestyle.
- Implement strategies and programs to develop/enhance participant skills, identify areas of increased support, and opportunities for services to help achieve their goals.
- Be available across a 24-hour roster over a 7-day week, including morning shifts, afternoon shifts, inactive sleepover shifts and active overnight shifts. Guaranteed 8-38hrs per week.

Additional roles and responsibilities relating to this role may also include the ability to:

- be responsible for supporting participants with all aspects of their daily living, including personal care and transportation
- assist participants to engage in social, community and recreational activities in the wider community
- implementing and monitoring practices that will promote a healthy and nutritional lifestyle
- empowering participants to achieve their goals alongside our organisation
- support participants requiring a trauma-informed approach and sensitivity training to be implemented into their support services
- provide, administer or prompt to administer medications as outlined in the participant’s Medication Management Plan
- Understand and implement a participants individual Behaviour Support Plan into their support service and complete any reporting relating to behavioural incidences

**Skills & Experience**
To maintain Vital Care’s reputable name in providing extraordinary support services, our _Disability Support Workers (DSW’s) _ are required to possess the following minimum essential criteria to be considered for a position on our team:

- 12 months+ experience in supporting people living with cognitive, psychosocial disabilities
- A current certificate to provide First-Aid - _completed within the last 3 years_
- A current certificate to provide CPR - _completed within the last 12 months_
- National Standard Police Clearance Check - _completed within the last 12 months_
- A current Working with Children’s Check (WWCC) - _for paid, unsupervised role_
- A current NDIS Worker Screening Check (NDISWSC)
- A current unrestricted C-class Australian drivers license
- A completed Certificate III/IV in Disabilities - _preferred but not essential_
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Vital Care Accommodation and Respite may not contact all applicants should they not meet the requirements of our recruitment process. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Casual

**Salary**: $34.00 - $80.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Professional development assistance
- Travel reimbursement

Schedule:

- Afternoon shift
- Morning shift
- Night shift
- Rotating roster
- Shift work
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Overtime pay
- Penalty rates
- Performance bonus