Support Worker

Comprehensive training & induction provided + regular skills upgrades
- Both Permanent Part Time & Casual opportunities available
- Must have a car drivers licence

**Support Worker / Personal Care Workers**
- **Kardinya, Fremantle, Bateman, Parkwood & surrounding **suburbs**

Proudly not for profit and in operation for over 60 years, Spinal Life Australia provides you with the opportunity to make a real difference in someone’s life.

When starting a career at Spinal Life, you’ll be joining a well-established team of health care workers, activists, researchers, volunteers, and friends all committed to changing the way disability is seen and creating a fairer Australia. Our clients are at the heart of our organisation and your role as a Support Worker is vital in maintaining this relationship.

**Both casual and permanent part time career opportunities available.**

**Permanent Part time offering 5 weeks annual & sick leave pro rata on a above award hourly rate ($34.68 - $36.95 including current location allowance plus penalty rates)**

**A career as a Support Worker means**:
Our clients are decision makers who plan and organise their own lives and make their own choices. Your role is to provide the support our clients need and choose so they can live the life that they want to.

Working closely with a client in their own home you'll assist with a wide range of quite personal daily activities such as:

- Transferring in and out of bed, chairs and providing other mobility assistance
- Showering
- Toileting (including changing catheter bags and supporting bowel care)
- Community access
- Housework, meal preparation and other light domestic assistance

We do things differently at Spinal Life. You'll be part of a person's ongoing support team, which means you'll get to build long-term professional relationships with your clients and your teammates.

**Our successful Support Workers are**:

- Emotionally aware, resilient and responsive to the changing support needs of our clients
- Sensitive and adaptable to clients' different personalities, cultural backgrounds and family/house dynamics
- Genuine, reliable workers with inherent integrity and respect for individual choice and client confidentiality

**You'll also need to**:

- Must have a manual drivers licence
- Complete NDIS Worker Orientation Module (Certificate given on Completion).
- Supply a Covid 19 Certificate of Vaccination as per the WA Health Direction for workers in a healthcare setting.
- Have a current driver licence and reliable motor vehicle.
- Hold a National Police Check.
- Be capable of doing a physically demanding role - you'll be lifting, bending, carrying, crouching, driving and working in restricted spaces such as shower stalls, bathrooms, and other parts of clients' homes.
- Flexible hours to suit you and your family. Whether you’re an early bird (6am shifts) or a night owl (until 10pm) or afternoons, overnights and some weekends suit your needs - we want to hear from you.
- Both permanent & casual opportunities currently available
- Comprehensive training and induction
- Ongoing training and development - we say it because we actually do it
- Internal career progression opportunities
- Salary packaging arrangements that can increase your take-home pay
- Penalty rates for weekends, nights and public holidays that make a real difference in your pay packet
- Regular team meetings and celebrations of success - you're part of a big team where your contribution is really valued
- The opportunity to really make a difference - in your team, in your organisation and in your clients' lives.

**For any enquiries on this opportunity please call Trish in our National Recruitment Team on 07 3435 3186