Day Services Practitioner

Location: Wyndham Vale
- Brand: Community, Residential & Pathways
- Date Posted: 18 Jun 2025

**Job Number**: 2086

**Location**: Wyndham, Victoria

**Employment Status**: Casual - Ongoing

**Classification**: From $33.41 per hour + casual loading (Level 2 - Victorian Disability Services (NGO) Agreement 2019)

**Work Schedule**: Shifts operate Monday - Friday, 8.45AM - 3.15PM

**About genU**

At genU, we are a group of passionate, driven individuals dedicated to making lives happier and healthier, especially for people with disabilities, the ageing, and those experiencing disadvantage. As a not-for-profit organization, 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**

Do you have a passion for supporting people to achieve their goals? Have experience working within a day centre program? Want the flexible opportunity to work within 8.45am - 3.15pm while the kids are at school or while studying? We have an exciting program expanding opportunity to join the genU community team as a Day Service Practitioner to support our clients in reaching their full potential while engaging in skill-building activities in and around Wyndham. You will support and engage with individuals of a younger cohort, to participate in a range of exciting programs, such as community access, recreational activities (arts and crafts), life skills (cooking) and fitness activities. Here, no two days are the same

**Key Responsibilities**

As a **Day Service Practitioner**, you will but not limited to:

- Supporting people to participate in fun, enriching day programs and outings while promoting respect and choice for all clients.
- Assist with daily tasks, including personal care, hygiene, and meal support.
- Promote community inclusion by identifying and facilitating engagement opportunities based on client interests.
- Encourage client participation in community activities, with support ratios ranging from 1:1 to 1:4.
- Foster physical health, communication skills, teamwork, self-confidence, and overall wellbeing.

**About You**

We are looking for passionate and people-minded individuals. Our **ideal** Day Services Practitioner** will:

- Be an effective communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills, particularly with an understanding, sensitivity and respect to participant's abilities, strengths and circumstances.
- Have a strong understanding of supporting clients with varying disabilities and active supports.
- Enjoy helping others achieve their goals and personal growth.
- Be an efficient organiser, able to maintain and update programs, file notes and documents as required.
- Have experience working in day centre work and with behaviours of concern.

**Employee Benefits**

genU offers a range of benefits, including:

- **Health & Wellbeing Support**: 24/7 access to a holistic employee assistance program.
- **Salary Packaging**: Non-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900 per annum, plus additional meals and entertainment benefits.
- **Discount Program**: Save at over 450 retailers, including Coles, Woolworths & JB HI-FI.
- **Study Discoun**t: 25% study discount for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Torrens University.
- **Investment in You**: in addition to a comprehensive induction program & 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.

**Requirements**:

- Certificate IV in Disability or equivalent;
- Current First Aid and CPR certification;
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check (or willingness to obtain);
- Current Working with Children Check (or willingness to obtain);
- Completion of the NDIS Worker Orientation Module.

**Ready to Make a Difference?