Support Workers

**Position Description**
- Want to make the world a better place?
- Want a meaningful role helping people get more out of life?
- Keen to contribute to a joyful and innovative team environment?
- Join us to get more out of life

**The Opportunity**:
To support our clients, Nextt has immediate opportunities across various Inner Melbourne Suburbs, such as: Richmond, Kew and surrounding Inner Melbourne. We are looking for casual mental health, attendant care and disability support workers for a wide variety of services like community access, activities of daily living and supported independent living. To find our Nextt Support Workers we are hosting fast-track online interviews. For this, we’d love to meet you and introduce you to our person-centred service delivery team. As a Nextt Support Worker you will be part of a successful purpose driven organization that is making a significant impact in the community. At Nextt, we are united by a common vision to support people with disability and/or mental health challenges to achieve their goals and to get more out of life.

**About the role**

**About you**:You are passionate about supporting our clients to reach their goals and work in a person-centred culture. To be considered for this role, you will have:

- Compassion for people with disability and/or mental illness
- Experience in supporting clients with complex behaviour support plans, cognitive disabilities, TBI/ABI, physical and verbal aggression, 24/7 care, personal care support
- Demonstrated experience in implementing Restrictive Practices, Manual Handling, Medication Management, Personal Care, Wound management, Complex behaviours and Bowel Therapy.
- A minimum of Cert III in Mental Health/Disability/Community Services/Individual Support/Nursing or above with minimum of 1 year of industry experience

**About The Nextt Group**
- We employ over 2200 employees and have services across NSW, QLD, SA, and VIC, making Nextt one of Australia’s largest NDIS providers. Over the last 20 years we have built a strong service that specializes in supporting people with a broad range of disabilities and/or mental health challenges
- Each year, we positively impact the lives over 2000 clients through our wide range of leading-edge person-centred experiences
- Our people are Principled, Committed, Responsive and Creative, and are excited to come to work every day. They work with us because they want to make a real difference in the lives of the people with disability and/or mental health challenges
- Nextt is a genuinely diverse, supportive workplace where your unique skills and professional contribution will be appreciated and valued
- We value the lived experiences of our employees

**What do we offer?**
- Career development with approximately 30% promoted within Nextt
- A highly skilled dedicated team who work together to support the business, engage and learn from each other
- Be part of a workplace that genuinely cares about its people, our clients and the community at large
- We are united by our shared vision and value the lived experiences of our employees
- Learning and development opportunities

**What to expect on interview day**

You will participate in individual online interviews to help us get an understanding of your passions, capabilities and experience. If you successfully progress through the process, the team will be able to match your skills and availability to current vacancies on the day. Pending reference checks they will also be able to book you into Orientation and Induction the following week which means you can start your career at Nextt asap. In order for us to fast track these opportunities if you register your interest you will be sent an online pre-employment registration where you can upload the below documents which are required to be able to start at Nextt.
- Clear NDIS Worker Screening Check, Working with Children and valid Australian Driver licence with reliable transport
- Mobile phone with internet access
- The right to work in Australia and Able to provide 100 points of ID
- Current First Aid and CPR Certificate