Community Support Worker

Parramatta and surrounds location
- Work autonomously and visit our clients in their own homes
- Drivers licence and comprehensive car insurance a must

**Purpose of the Community Support Worker role**
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As a Support Worker at Achieve Australia, your primary goal is to provide person-centered quality support services to people with a disability. You will support our clients to set and reach goals that are important to them and make decisions about how best to live the life they choose. This role will work in our Community Participation division, visiting people in their own homes or residential accommodation. You will work autonomously with our clients and may need to transport them in your own vehicle.

**Why Join Team Achieve?**
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At Achieve Australia, we put the people we support at the centre of everything we do. As a ‘for purpose’ organisation, we're more than just a workplace. We are a community passionate about bringing inclusion to life for people with disability.

**What reasonable adjustments can we make to our recruitment process to welcome you?**
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**Role Responsibilities**:As a Support Worker, you will work in a person’s home, work, and community setting and support clients to build their independence and relationships. Your duties will include:

- Provide an enjoyable, respectful, and safe environment for all people we support.
- Provide personal/physical care and support to clients including, but not limited to, grooming, toileting, meal preparation and assistance, home support, transport and medication administration.
- Support the use of physical and communication aids and devices and other personal equipment where required.
- Provide support that will enable clients to participate successfully in individual interests, hobbies, and relationships in the community.
- Support clients to access recreational services, transport services, including public transport, taxis, Achieve Australia vehicles.
- Advocate for and assist clients, their families, and significant people in their lives to access and engage with community.
- Complete client documentation including writing case notes, updating our client management system, communication booklets, medical documentation, etc.

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**To be successful in this role, you will need**:

- Relevant qualifications (minimum Cert IV in Disability or Individual Support).
- Strong interpersonal, role modelling, and customer service skills.
- Problem-solving abilities with an ability to adapt to changing environments.
- Understanding of and commitment to National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and Code of Conduct and Workplace Health and Safety.
- Awareness of human rights and challenges facing individuals with disabilities.
- Current NSW Driver's License and comprehensive car insurance - this is a must.
- Experience in working with and supporting adults and/or children with complex disability.

Achieve Australia has been supporting people with disability for 70 years. Be part of our proud tradition.

Achieve is a registered NDIS provider delivering integrated clinical, health, social, and disability services. Join us in providing exceptional support services in accommodation, community participation supported employment, and support coordination. We operate across Greater Sydney and the Northern Rivers regions in NSW.

**What Sets Us Apart**
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**Our Commitment**
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At Achieve, it's more than a job. Our dedicated staff make a positive difference to the people we support each day and in turn, we support our staff. We value our team in an environment where everyone can proudly be themselves. We embrace diversity, recognising the richness that different life experiences, languages, and cultures bring to our clients and to Achieve as an organisation.

**Great employee benefits**
- Salary packaging options mean you keep more of your take home pay before tax.
- Car leasing is another salary packaging option.
- Free personal and financial counselling for you and your family.
- Range of paid leave and flexible work arrangements.
- Support for a healthy lifestyle, including fitness memberships and wellness programs.
- Regular training and support to succeed in your role.
- A strong record of promoting from within.

Do you need more information?

**About Achieve**: click here to visit the Achieve Australia website to learn more about us.