Disability Support Worker

**Description**
- **Permanent Part Time opportunities available due to growth**:

- **24/7 rotating roster**:

- **Salary packaging & Fitness Passport available**:

- **NSW unrestricted drivers licence - essential**:

- **Friendly and close-knit team environment**

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About Us..*
Royal Rehab is Australia’s leading provider of rehabilitation and disability services.
Highly regarded for our specialist expertise in brain and spinal cord injury rehabilitation, Royal Rehab is also renowned for supported accommodation services, our private hospitals, our purpose-built resort for people with spinal cord injury and community services delivering holistic quality care.

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About the Role..*
Royal Rehab has a large number of residential group homes across Sydney and surrounds. We are currently advertising for casual and part-time positions at the Ryde location.
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.
**Key responsibilities 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.

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

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Current First Aid Certificate
- Current Unrestricted NSW Drivers Licence
- 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

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What We Offer..*
- Supportive & experienced leadership team
- Genuine career opportunities
- Salary packaging + benefits
- Fitness Passport available

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What's Next?*

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- Satisfactory criminal checks,
- Working with children’s checks (if applicable)
- Immunisation status clearance, including evidence of COVID 19 vaccinations.

In order to be eligible for consideration for employment with Royal Rehab, all recruits must provide evidence of vaccination against COVID-19, or alternatively provide a Medical Contraindication in the approved form which complies with the requirements of the Public Health Order, prior to appointment.

**Job Type**: Part-time