Support Worker

**Exciting casual role in Upper Coomera, QLD before and after school care, weekend shifts as well as school holiday day shifts.**:

- ** Fantastic hourly rate on offer SCHADS Schedule E role at Level 3 rates of $32.73 or $33.74 (based on experience and qualifications) + salary packaging benefits up to $15,899 per year**:

- ** Working with young participant in Upper Coomera before and after school hours and weekend work.**

***_Wellways is committed to reconciliation, lived experience and inclusivity. We strongly encourage and warmly welcome people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people with a lived experience of mental health and disability and people_ _who identify as LGBTIQA+ to apply. Even if you only meet some of the criteria, we'd love to hear from you._

**About Your Next Exciting Opportunity**

Wellways are excited to offer the position of **Support Worker**, this role will suit someone who enjoys interacting and supporting our **participant** with daily activities.

In this role you will work on the front line of our Consumer Directed Services, delivering a wide range of services to support participants activities of daily living such as personal care, domestic assistance, continence management, feeding and mobilising. This role requires you will work closely with the person to ensure their individual needs are met.

Support Workers are the front line of our Consumer Directed Services programs, providing consumers with the personalised **support** to assist our participants to live meaningful and fulfilling lives.

Your varied day may include providing support with activities of daily living such as companionship, transport, shopping, meal preparation, domestic assistance, and medication management. An essential element of your role is that you will actively contribute to the continuous improvement of care provided to participants.

**About You**

You're a passionate, empathetic, and caring individual who is looking to make an invaluable positive impact on the lives of others. You relish a challenge and new experience. You're diligent, observant, and not afraid to ask questions. You're calm, collected, and resilient in the face of adversity and are looking to carry these qualities with you to the front line to start helping those in need.

You are an independent, proactive thinker and worker but are also able to follow direction/s given by your managers and can work within a tight-knit team.

If this is you, you're in luck: we have the perfect opportunity for you to do all of these things - right here, with us.

**So What Do You Need?**
- Certificate 3 in Mental Health, Disability, Aged Care, Home and Community Care or related fields (Desired, but not essential)
- Evidence of working rights within Australia
- First Aid Certification - current
- A current valid Driver's Licence and a registered, insured vehicle
- Satisfactory Police Records Check and Working with Children Check, current - prior to commencement
- NDIS Orientation Certificate - current
- NDIS Worker Screening Check - current
- Blue Card / Working with Children Check
- Evidence of full COVID vaccination, including Booster, or valid medical exemption
- Manual Handling training would be desirable but not essential

**About Us**
Wellways connects people, strengthens families, and transforms communities for individuals of all ages experiencing disabilities or challenges to their social and emotional wellbeing. A leading for purpose mental health and disability support organisation operating nationally, our services span mental health, disability and community care and reach more than 7000 people each year

Working with a diverse range of people, Wellways creates an inclusive community where everyone can imagine and achieve their hopes and potential.

**What Wellways will offer you.**

Wellways supports inclusivity and we're proud that our workplace is a place where everyone can imagine and achieve their goals and reach their fullest potential. This is your opportunity to join a nationally recognised organisation with over 18,000 people across 100+ sites and gain access to ongoing support and opportunity for career development.
- We are invested in your professional development and will support you in fulfilling your career ambitions
- Salary packaging up to $15,899 enables you to spend a portion of your salary before it is taxed to pay for things like rent, mortgage repayments, car leasing
- Meal and Entertainment allowance via salary packaging up to $2650 per annum
- Paid parental leave after 12 months of ongoing employment
- Access for you and your family to Employee Assistance Program
- A positive, culturally safe and inclusive workplace

For a confidential discussion about the role please contact **Christie Merrick | 02 9053 2486**

The health and safety of Wellways participants and employees is our highest priority and all Wellways roles require mandatory COVID vaccinations. **Successful applicants will be r