Support Worker

**At Scope, we celebrate people.**

Plumpton Supported Independent Living (SIL) is home to three male and one female client with complex mental health, intellectual, and physical disabilities. This site provides high physical support and are currently seeking **two skilled and compassionate casual Disability Support Workers** to join our dedicated team.

**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**
- Support clients with complex mental health, psychosocial disabilities and high physical needs including personal care, safe manual handling, and the use of hoists.
- Rigorously follow BIS and care support plans as directed by clinical teams and site manager to best support complex behaviours.
- Encourage 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 eagerness to participate in clients’ day to day routines, goals, and interests.
- To be efficient in computer skills and report writing

**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), active/sleepover nights (10pm-6am OR 11pm-7am).

**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 and diversity, human rights and our Covid-19 policies.

**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. As part of our Covid-19 response the Scope Covid-19 policy requires all our employees regardless of the job to have received at least 3 doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Please note that the offer will be conditional on meeting these requirements.