Community Support Worker

**About Us**
Sunnyfield is an organisation focused on people, our mission is to enrich the lives of people with disability by creating choice and control. Working together with families, friends and dedicated staff, Sunnyfield supports a brighter future for people with disability. This is an exciting time to join Sunnyfield as we embark on the expansion of our services across New South Wales.

**About the Role**
As a Community Support Worker based in our Singleton and Muswellbrook Hub, you will play an essential role in supporting and empowering people with disability to live a life of their choosing. This will include working across community access supports and in our day programs. Working in both a team environment and independently, you will provide a range of services assisting clients to live independently, be actively involved in their local community, and engaged in meaningful opportunities.

**As a Support worker in our day program, your key focuses will be**:
**Community Integration**: Supporting clients to live an active lifestyle and participate in their community through the delivery of a range of person-centred programs
**Life skills**:Bring your supportive attitude to help build capacity for our clients in an area that are passionate about
**Personal Care**: Assist and support clients with personal and hygiene care
**Behaviour Plans**:Adapt to clients individual needs, this could be working with behaviour support plans by utilising positive behaviour strategies
**Family Interaction**:Communication with families about clients' progress
**Transport**:Driving clients to and from our day programs, in our Sunnyfield van
**Admin Tasks**:Maintenance of progress notes and record-keeping

This permanent part time position will require you to work some afternoons and 1 weekend in a month. Flexibility to work across these shifts is a must

**Key focus**:
Supporting clients to live an active lifestyle and participate in their community through the delivery of a range of person-centred programs
Assisting with transportation of clients to the hub and/or appointments
Work to behaviour support plans by utilising positive behaviour strategies
Assist and support clients with personal and hygiene care, if required.
Communication with families about clients' progress
Maintenance of progress notes and record-keeping

**About You**
You are passionate about making a difference
As a positive and energetic person, you want to contribute and provide exceptional support to our clients. You want to be part of a fun and dynamic environment, so teamwork is something you love. You have a flair for creativity, whilst also being organised. You will demonstrate the ability to engage, communicate and build partnerships with people.

Experience in the Disability sector is a must.
Demonstrated knowledge of supporting high needs clients and/or clients with behaviours of concern
Ability to support others with personal and hygiene care and happy for this to be part of your job.
Personal qualities of resilience, empathy, self-confidence and compassion
High levels of enthusiasm, initiative and a positive attitude while acting with integrity, honesty and respect

If you meet the above criteria, this could be the opportunity to establish and grow your career in an organisation with purpose.

**What Sunnyfield can offer you**
We’re a for-purpose organisation built on a heritage of community spirit, trust, inclusion and heart. Work, life or leisure, we support people with disability to build independence in every opportunity, find a place to call home, connect with their community and build skills for life.

**Sunnyfield can offer benefits such as**:
Salary packaging to maximize your earnings
Fitness Passport
Career progression to advance & develop
Full staff support & regular follow ups
Flexibility in working hours to suit work-life balance needs
Accredited & paid training
The opportunity to change people's lives

**What's Next?**
If you are passionate about empowering people with disability to live a life of choice, opportunity and independence and would like to work in a challenging and rewarding role, we would love to hear from you.