
Disability Support Practitioner
2 weeks ago
Location: Northcote
- Brand: Disability & Ageing
- Date Posted: 22 Aug 2025
- **Job Number**: 2278
- **Location**: Northcote, Victoria.
- **Employment Status**: Casual, Ongoing.
- **Classification**: From $34.58 per hour + applicable loading (Level 2 - Victorian Disability Services (NGO) Agreement 2019)
- **Shift Schedule**: Shifts operate within: Monday - Friday 8.00AM -4.00PM with additional hours as required.
**About genU**
- At genU, we are a group of passionate, driven individuals dedicated to making lives happier and healthier, especially for people with disabilities, the ageing, and those experiencing disadvantage. As a not-for-profit organization, 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**
Do you have a passion for support people achieve their goals? Have experience working within a day centre program? Want the flexible opportunity to work within 8am - 4pm and while the kids are at school or while studying? We run exciting activities such as arts and crafts, accessing the community, games and movies. We have an exciting program expanding opportunity to join the genU community team as a Disability Day Service Practitioner to support our clients in reaching their full potential while engaging in skill-building activities in and around Northcote, Vic.
**Key Responsibilities**
As a Disability Day Service Practitioner, you will but not limited to;
- Support clients in goal orientated learning, empowering them to push beyond their boundaries.
- Assist with daily tasks, including personal care, hygiene, and meal support.
- Promote community inclusion by identifying and facilitating engagement opportunities based on client interests.
- Encourage client participation in community activities, with support ratios ranging from 1:1 to 1:4.
- Foster physical health, communication skills, teamwork, self-confidence, and overall wellbeing
**About You**
We are looking for caring and empathetic people. Our ideal Day Services Practitioner will:
- Be an effective communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills, particularly with an understanding, sensitivity and respect to participant's abilities, strengths and circumstances.
- Have a strong understanding of supporting clients with varying disabilities and active supports.
- Enjoy helping others achieve their goals and personal growth.
- Be an efficient organiser, able to maintain and update programs, file notes and documents as required.
- Have experience working in day centre work and with behaviours of concern.
**Employee Benefits**
genU offers a range of benefits, including:
- **Health & 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 Program**: Save at over 450 retailers, including Coles, Woolworths & JB HI-FI.
- **Uni Study Discount**: all genU employees are eligible for a 25% discounts towards undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Torrens University.
- **Investment in You**: in addition to a comprehensive induction program & 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
**Requirements**:
- Certificate 3 in Disability or equivalent;
- Current First Aid and CPR certification;
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check (or willingness to obtain);
- Current Working with Children Check (or willingness to obtain);
- Completion of the NDIS Worker Orientation Module.
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