Support Worker

Casuals and permanent part-time roles in South-East Sydney.
- Salary packaging benefits that can increase your take-home pay.
- 5-weeks leave, gym membership and an insurance discount.
- Our Hillsdale day program offers multiple casual and permanent positions.
- Northcott offers outstanding benefits, including five weeks of leave, gym membership, and a health insurance discount.
- We offer training and development opportunities to help you advance your career and reach your full potential.

**About the opportunity**:
Our Hillsdale team is seeking both casual and permanent part-time support workers. This opportunity is ideal for individuals who wish to provide support in a day program and facilitate activities. We offer shifts between 8 am to 4 pm, Monday - Friday. The pay rate is $33.42 per hour, plus superannuation, salary packaging, and additional casual loading for casual positions.

**Role Requirements**:

- Experience facilitating group activities, e.g. art, playing an instrument, drama, and gardening.
- Experience in high support needs - manual handling, PEG feeding, medication and personal care.
- Challenging behaviour Experience - we have customers with complex health and behavioural concerns.
- Flexibility to work on a rotating roster, preferably from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm; weekends are a must.

**Typical duties might include**:

- Assist our customers with NDIS goals, engaging in activities and building independence.
- Devise and facilitate program activities and workshops with customers and other support staff.
- Personal care includes bowel care, manual handling using various equipment and aids, and other health and hygiene needs such as feeding, medication, dressing, toileting, and showering.
- Supporting customers with intellectual disability, high physical support needs and medical / health needs.
- Ability to develop positive relationships with our customers and to support their care plans, including goals

**Pre-Employment Requirements**:

- Valid working rights.
- A current Driver's Licence and confidence to drive an accessible van.
- NSW Working with Children Check NSW.
- NDIS Worker Check
- Current First Aid and CPR certificate
- Health Assessment

**Position Description**:
**Why work for us?**
- We are a leading disability service provider in NSW and the ACT, providing services and support for people with disability and their families and carers.
- 5 weeks annual leave (for permanent employees), salary packaging to increase take-home pay, health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and an insurance discount.
- Regularly, staff start as casual and can convert to permanent based on performance and availability.

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