Support Worker

10 x Casual roles
- Banyo, Windsor, Wooloowin, Nudgee locations

As a Support Worker you will be responsible for supporting people in their every-day lives, ensuring that they have maximum opportunity to develop valued lifestyles, providing opportunities for choice, control, self-advocacy and becoming a valued member of the community. In this role, working under the direction of a Team Leader, your day will involve:

- Building and maintaining trusting and meaningful working relationships with people we support, their circle of support and the community.
- Facilitating community inclusion and participation; supporting people to build and maintain relationships and interests through access to community activities, venues and services.
- Encouraging positive and socially appropriate behaviour, and effectively manage any challenging behaviours.
- Providing personal support, personal care, and transportation where required, in accordance with an individual's personal plan.

To be successful in this role, any previous experience assisting others who live with disability is a strength. **This includes previous professional or lived experience**. We understand that finding the right organisation and the right team is just as important as finding the right role. The model of work at Mercy, ensures that Team Leaders are accessible, and can provide you with regular support, training and development.

The casual rate of pay for this role sits at the SCHADS award level 2 rate of pay. On a casual basis this equates to $38.08 + 10.5% Super + Salary Sacrifice + any applicable shift allowances.**Why choose Mercy Community for the next step in your career?**

Mercy Community appreciates the important work that each person contributes to the success of our programs and services. Being part of the Mercy team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as we:

- Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need - saving you up to $144 if you need both cards
- Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services. This includes specialised First Nations counsellors.
- Provide the opportunity to increase your take home pay through the use of salary sacrificing and other packaging benefits -up to $18,550 per annum is available to take advantage of
- Provide access to novated leases for a vehicle to help reduce your taxable income.

Depending on your role, you may also be eligible:

- For annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
- To receive pay bonus’ of $500 for successful employee referrals
- To cash out or purchase annual leave and to
- Take advantage of extra leave entitlements

We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools, online and in-person, to continue your professional and personal development. This is kick-started with a thorough induction and orientation program as well as on-the-job planned support and guidance. We also ensure that you have access to broader long-term career pathways and opportunities across Disability Supports and in other programs and services right across Mercy Community.

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- Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit organisation, that along with _
- the Sisters of Mercy Brisbane Congregation before us,_
- have been providing services across urban, rural, and remote Queensland for over 150 years. We live by our values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity and Empowerment which inspires all the work we do supporting families and young people, people living with disability, and older people; to live hopeful connected lives within inclusive communities._
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