Disability Support Worker

Location: Hobart
- Brand: Community, Residential & Pathways
- Date Posted: 9 Jul 2025
- **Job number**: 2116
- **Location**:Hobart, Kingston, Glenorchy, New Norfolk and Eastern Shore, Tasmania.
- **Employment status**:Casual - ongoing
- **Classification**:From $33.85 + 25% Casual Loading (Li-Ve Tasmania Enterprise Agreement 2020).

**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 Disability 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 Southern Tasmanian region, Tasmania. 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 mornings, short community shifts, days, afternoons, sleepovers, and active nights through the week and weekends.**

**In order to progress you will need to complete the availability questionnaire as per the link below**:
You will join a collaborative and supportive team, who will provide individualised training so you can best support our varied cohort of residents and clients in Southern Tasmania (From Kingston to New Norfolk and the Eastern Shore). You will be a compassionate and reliable worker with a focus on empowering our residents and clients 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 Disability Support Worker indicative responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Collaborate with the office-based staff 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 or similar
- Current Australian Drivers License
- Completed First Aid and CPR certificate.
- Working with Vulnerable People with NDIS Endorsement and Child related activity
- NDIS Worker Orientation Certificate - "Quality, Safety & You"

**Employee benefits**

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

- **Health and wellbeing support**: 24/7 access to a holistic employee assistance program.
- **Above Award Salaries**: Access hourly rates above Schad’s award.
- **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 for genU staff.
- **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?