Disability Support Worker

**Description**:

- ** Multiple opportunities in Campbelltown, Bankstown & Ryde**:

- ** 24/7 rotating roster**:

- ** Salary packaging + benefits available**:

- ** NSW unrestricted drivers licence essential**:

- ** Willingness to do sleepover shifts**

**About us**:
Royal Rehab is a leading provider of rehabilitation services in brain and spinal cord injury. Our services also include neurological and general rehabilitation, supported independent living and specialist disability services. Our vision is a world without limits for people with disability, illness and injury.

Royal Rehab is renowned for our focus on research and innovation and sits uniquely as a provider of advanced rehabilitation and disability services including supported accommodation, private rehabilitation hospitals, a purpose-built resort for people with spinal cord injury and community services.

**About the role**:
Royal Rehab has a large number of residential group homes across Sydney and surrounds. We are currently advertising for casual positions in our **Campbelltown, Bankstown and Ryde** **locations.**

The Support Worker position is pivotal in promoting great outcomes for our customers in maintaining an exceptional quality of life. Our role is to empower customer to have a fulfilling life, by actively participating in the community and maximising independence, underpinned by our core values of respect, working together, innovative thinking and honesty.

**Your main Duties will include**:

- Assisting customers with activities of daily living including but not limited to Personal Care, Manual Handling, Transportation, Shopping, Community participation, medication administration, Health Care Appointments, Domestic and Cleaning Assistance, Cooking and Meal Preparation.
- Providing person centered support as well as utilising a recovery focused approach to support customers to achieve their goals.
- Utilising effective communication skills when interacting with customers, colleagues, supervisors and stakeholders.
- Ability to operate effectively within a team environment, unsupervised and working individually to support the needs of our customers.
- Being responsive when dealing with concerns relating to risk and customer care and an understanding of mandatory reporting guidelines.
- Completing customer documentation, key worker reports, person centered plans, risk assessments, incident reports, progress notes etc.
- Working with your Accommodation Manager to identify continuous improvements in regard to customer support needs and service delivery.
- The ability to work across a 24/7 roster with shifts ranging from 3-10 hours, from active overnight shifts, short shifts and split shifts.

**About you**:
**We seek a self-motivated and friendly individual with**:

- Experience managing clients with challenging behaviours.
- Current unrestricted NSW Drivers Licence.
- Must be comfortable driving van with client onboard.
- Flexible availability including willingness to do sleep over shifts.
- Current First Aid Certificate.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong computer literacy skills.
- Ability to work within Royal Rehab's value-based framework upholding the values of honesty, respect, working together and innovative thinking.
- Robust understanding of the Disability Standards, and the ability to translate these standards into practice.
- Self-motivated individuals with a positive can-do attitude.
- Experience in working with customers with a range of physical, emotional & mental health conditions desired.

**What we offer**:

- ** Salary packaging**:Up to $15,900 salary packaging per financial year
- ** Benefits**: Fitness Passport & HCF Private Health Insurance discounts
- ** Career growth**: Genuine career opportunities
- ** Work life balance**: Flexible work arrangements
- ** Salary**: Competitive remuneration
- ** Leadership**:Supportive and experienced leadership team
- ** Culture**: Friendly and close-knit team environment

We are proud of our diverse and skilled team of passionate healthcare and support professionals committed to delivering the very best for the people we serve. A career at Royal Rehab is the opportunity to make a difference with a progressive and innovative organisation, built on a rich history of community care since 1899.

**What's next**:
This is an exciting opportunity to have a real impact on our clients. If this sounds like the perfect role for you, don't delay and CLICK HERE TO APPLY NOW

The successful applicant will be required to undergo pre-employment checks including but not limited to a current criminal record check working with children check, employment history and referee checks.

**All final applicants for this position will be requested to provide evidence of their COVID-19 vaccination immunisation record or medical exemption certificate as part of the recruitment process** _We do not provide sponsorship._

**No agencies please.