Residential Support Worker

Location: Colac
- Brand: Community, Residential & Pathways
- Date Posted: 9 Apr 2025
- **Job number**: 1912
- **Location**:Colac, VIC
- **Employment status**:Casual - ongoing
- **Classification**:From $33.41 per hour + 25% casual loading (Level 2 - Victorian Disability Services (NGO) Agreement 2019)

**About genU**:
At genU, we are a group of passionate, driven individuals dedicated to making lives happier and healthier, especially for people with disability, the ageing, and those experiencing disadvantage. As a not-for-profit organisation, we invest directly back into the communities we serve.

We welcome diversity in race, culture, spirituality, gender, age, identity, ability, and sexuality. Our commitment is to foster a welcoming, innovative, safe, empowering, and respectful environment where these values are upheld every day.

**Join our team**:
In your role as a **Residential Support Worker**, you will encourage clients to become self-sufficient and lead fulfilling lives by offering them person-centered support, community access and personal care. You will be working in various residential homes across Colac region. The shifts currently on offer are a mixture of weekday and weekend along with active overnight shifts and all applicants must be able to workdays and night shifts on a regular basis.

**Please note we require you to work a combination of shifts, including day, afternoon, and active night through the week and weekends.**

Current Shifts on offer are:

- Morning - Daily: from 7:00am - 3:15pm
- Afternoon - Daily: 3:00pm - 11:00pm
- Sleepover - 10:00pm - 7:00am
- Active Overnights 11.45pm - 7:00am

You will join a collaborative and supportive team, who will provide individualised training so you can best support our varied cohort of residents in Warrnambool. You will be a compassionate and reliable worker with a focus on empowering our participants to live their best lives. You will have an empathic approach to service delivery, with a flexible and adaptable style, a sense of humour, and meticulous attention to detail.

**Key responsibilities**:
As a residential support worker, indicative responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Collaborate with the Team Leader in the development and implementation of Person-Centred Plans (PCPs), ensuring the promotion of independent living skills through both formal and informal teaching methods.
- Assist clients with daily living activities, including medication management, personal hygiene, food preparation, dressing, and mealtime support, while maintaining professional integrity and confidentiality.
- Maintain accurate records related to medical, behavioural, and financial documentation, adhering to guidelines, and ensuring the collection and storage of receipts when handling resident funds.
- Complete necessary administrative tasks such as payroll, compliance reports, and client procedural paperwork in a timely and accurate manner, while strictly following genU policies, procedures, and WHS standards.

**Requirements**:
To be eligible, you must have or willing to complete:

- Certificate III or IV in Disability
- Current Victorian Drivers licence.
- Completed First Aid and CPR certificate.
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check clearance
- NDIS Worker Orientation Certificate - "Quality, Safety & You"
- Current Working with Children Check Victoria for paid employment.

**Employee benefits**:
**genU offers a range of benefits, including**:

- **Health and wellbeing support**: 24/7 access to a holistic employee assistance program.
- **Salary packaging**: Non-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900 per annum, plus additional meals and entertainment benefits.
- **Discount shopping programs**: Save at over 450 retailers, including Coles, Woolworths, JB HI-FI and Officeworks.
- **Study Discount**: 25% discount for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Torrens University.
- **Professional development**: In addition to a comprehensive induction program and ongoing professional development, genU is committed to providing opportunities for career progression. You will have access to a range of accredited training modules, staff mentoring programs and our internal jobs board.

**Ready to make a difference?**: