Disability Support Worker

**WE ARE LOOKING FOR EXPERIENCED PART TIME DISABILITY SUPPORT WORKERS TO JOIN OUR VIBRANT TEAM HERE AT MINDA**

**Positions are part time and available in Craigburn Farm and surrounding Southern suburbs.**
- **Fixed term 12 month contract**:

- **Rotating Roster**:

- **Supported Independent Living - Make a difference**

At Minda, we provide services and support to enable people living with an intellectual disability to reach their personal health and wellbeing goals and live their best lives.

As the state’s largest not-for profit provider of disability services, we provide supported independent living accommodation, stimulate continuous personal growth and development through supported employment and various community engagement options as well as allied health and respite services.

As a value-driven not-for-profit organisation, we are passionate about achieving greater outcomes and creating more meaningful experiences for both our clients and our staff.

**Our Values**

**Respect**: We respect the right of a person living with an intellectual disability to self-determination in living their best life.
**Heart**: We demonstrate care and love for those we support in all that we do.
**Opportunity**: We focus on the positive and what people can do rather than what they cannot do to create opportunities.
**Community**: We recognise the importance of community to a person’s wellbeing and strive to create an inclusive community where people living with an intellectual disability are valued for themselves and the contribution they make to community.

**ABOUT THE ROLE**:
Opportunities available for passionate Disability Support Workers to join the Minda team in our Supported Independent Living Services. The main purpose of Client Services is to provide support to people with intellectual disability and to maximise choice and inclusion to achieve their aspirations and goals, optimising a person centred approach. **AM and PM shifts to cover staff on long term annual leave plans.** **We also have a unic position to cover Active night shifts in the area.**

**Positions are part time and available in Craigburn Farm and surrounding Southern suburbs ONLY.**

**In this Role you will be responsible for**:

- Engaging person-centred active support in areas such as emotional behaviour, education, cooking and domestic duties
- Planning and executing activities for the participants
- Ensure the effective communication is maintained at all times with all stakeholders
- Adapt service delivery and support as appropriate to meet participant needs and preferences
- Encouraging clients to make choices and decisions about all aspects of their life
- Work collaboratively with others to ensure a consistent approach to service delivery, which empowers participants to be involved in decision making and choice
- Energetic, positive, and creative personality
- Able to commit to a 7-day rotating roster, morning and evening shifts
- Experience supporting people with disability utilising a professional and empathetic approach
- Possesses a good understanding of the NDIS Framework
- Experience with stakeholder communication
- Experience with medication administration
- Experienced in completion of documentation

**Skills and Qualifications Required**
- NDIS Worker Screening Check (or Valid DHS Disability Screening)
- NDIS Worker Orientation Module
- Current Driver's Licence
- Unrestricted Working Rights
- Current First Aid/CPR
- Certificate III or higher in Disability or equivalent (Individual Support, Disability Services, Aging Care and/or Community Services).
- Medication Competency (Learning Simplified - Administer Medication)

**What’s in it for you?**
- A sense of value and purpose, working for an essential service provider, whilst significantly impacting the lives of the people we support
- Attractive remuneration including salary packaging (up to $15,900 per FBT) and additional benefits
- A supportive, highly skilled, and collaborative team environment
- Flexibility for work life balance and independence
- Car parking and café facilities on our main site, on the gorgeous Brighton site located by the beach

**How to apply**

**_Minda recognises that diversity in our workforce better equips us to support our clients’ individualised aspirations and goals. So, if you’re a person living with a disability, an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, part of the LGBTQIA+ community, from a culturally or linguistically diverse background or unique in any other way we would love to hear from you._