Support Worker

**At Scope, we celebrate people.**

Due to site growth, we’re offering **casual positions** for skilled and resilient support workers across both of our **Bowral and Mittagong homes**.

**Mittagong Site X 2 casual**

Supports **male clients with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviours**.
Ideal for someone with experience in **psychosocial disabilities**, **autism**, **behaviours of concern**, and **alternative communication methods and comfortable with personal care**.
**Available Shifts**: Split shifts, day shifts, and sleepovers (5pm-9am).

**Bowral Site X 4 casuals**

A **high support home** for **male and female clients** with a combination of **intellectual and physical disabilities**.
Requires someone confident in **personal care**, **manual handling**, **meal prep**, and **transporting clients in wheelchairs**.
**Available Shifts**: Split shifts, day shifts, afternoon shifts, and sleepovers (5pm-9am).

If you're passionate about person-centred care and want to grow with a supportive team, we’d love to hear from you

**What's in it for you?**
- Casual rates starting from $42.28 per hour + penalties.
- Salary packaging benefits - $15,900 of your salary is tax free.
- Access to exclusive benefits & deals from over 500 popular retailers simply for being a valued Scope employee.
- Regular and **flexible casual shifts** that cater to your availability.
- A supportive company where **we celebrate people**:

- Learning and development opportunities to enhance your current skills and **excel together.**:

- The chance to **act bravely** and empower people to self-advocate and make decisions.

**Your role**
- Supporting adults with complex mental health and, intellectual and physical disabilities in an independent living model.
- Following positive behaviour support and care support plans as directed by clinical teams and site managers.
- Encouraging capacity building to enhance clients’ current skills, such as hygiene, safe relationships, domestic duties, using public transport and accessing the community safely.
- Promoting choice and control and show willingness to participate in clients’ day to day routines, goals, and interests.
- Providing personal care with dignity and respect.

**Some of our requirements**:
We are aware there are quite a few compliance checks (listed below) for this role however, what’s important to us is that you have regular access to your own car and a P2 NSW Drivers Licence or higher and flexible availability across a 24/7 roster which may include, mornings (6am-2pm OR 7am-3pm), afternoons (2pm-10pm OR 3pm
- 11pm), sleepover (5pm-9am).

**Who is Scope?**

Scope is one of the largest not-for-profit disability service providers in Australia, supporting thousands of people with complex intellectual, physical, and multiple disabilities. We operate across Victoria and New South Wales through more than 425 service locations and support more than 5600 people.

At Scope, we work together to create meaningful opportunities for people with disabilities to belong and thrive.

View our stance on inclusion, diversity and human rights.

**Please note**: successful applicants will be required to hold a NDIS Worker Screening Check Clearance and a Working with Children Check. If you have lived or worked for a continuous period of 12 months or more in another country within the last 10 years, a certified International Police Check from that country/countries will also be required. Please note that the offer will be conditional on meeting these requirements.

**_ Scope (Aust) is a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer - we commit to respond to every applicant._