Disability Support Worker

**About us**

Miracle Health Services is a **Registered NDIS & Aged Care Provider** which supports people with disability to live fulfilling, liberated and meaningful lives. We provide compassionate support workers and variety of other professionals to enable our participants to live as independently as possible. We offer support services for people with disability in Victoria.

**About the role**

The role is very dependant on the person you are supporting. No two people are the same. We are a small and passionate management team, we want to build your capacity to be able to support any participant and manage any circumstances.

The hours are varied, we have shifts available in respite, in home care and community access.

We are looking at adding additional Disability Support Workers immediately to our St Albans and Sunbury based team

**Qualifications & experience**
- Certificate 4 in Disability or equivalent highly regarded but not essential
- NDIS Worker Screening Check
- Working with Children Check
- First Aid & CPR
- Manual Handling Certificate

**Must have**
- Kind, compassionate and caring attitude towards diversity Inclusive mindset towards humanity
- Can do attitude
- Willingness to learn
- Willingness to work with a broad range of NDIS participants, **including those with behavioural concerns**

**Tasks & responsibilities**
- Provide quality, direct, person-centred support
- Capacity building/ teaching living skills
- Enhancing daily living skills and social & community participation
- Community support - going shopping, walks, outdoor activities, exercise etc
- In home care
- Supporting and enabling people to be live as independently as possible
- Create and maintain case notes, incident reports and other documentation to improve our services to participants
- Provide transport using personal vehicle and
- Personal care tasks
- Manual handling
- Supporting people with behavioural concerns

**Benefits**
- Supportive management team
- Ongoing support - we are available 24/7 for support. We know there is a lot to learn. We're always here for you.
- Competitive hourly rate + penalties

**Job Types**: Part-time, Casual
Part-time hours: 30 per week

**Salary**: $30.91 - $75.03 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Professional development assistance
- Travel reimbursement

Schedule:

- Afternoon shift
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift
- Public holidays
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Overtime pay
- Penalty rates

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Gisborne, VIC: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

Licence/Certification:

- National Police Certificate (required)
- Driver Licence (required)
- First Aid and CPR Certification (required)
- NDIS Worker Screening Check (required)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)

Work Location: In person