Assertive Support Worker

**Section 1: Job Description**

**Primary Function**

Jarrah Supports work in accordance with the National Standards for Disability Services. Staff must work and uphold Jarrah Supports in a positive light. Deliver supports according to Jarrah Supports “what we stand for”.

As a staff member you are accountable to both the participants that you support, and to Jarrah Supports ensuring that the support you provide to our participants are respectful and they have choice and control over their lives.

You will help us ensure our supports are person-centred, planned to meet individual needs, lifestyle choices and goals achieving greater independence.

**Roles and responsibilities**

**Our participant lives, in York, WA with her mother and her daughter She is aged in her early 40s, she lives with an acquired brain injury due to a previous car accident. She is mobile and there is no personal care involved. The participant communicates with clearly spoken words.**

**This is a unique role and Jarrah supports will support you to use creative methods to engage with the participant. It will require the following from any applicant.**
- Be willing to uses a proactive engagement method.
- Requires flexibility.
- Would be suited to someone who is able to build trust and hold firm boundaries.

**On a practical level the role will mainly focus on the following**:

- Supporting the participant to access the community in spaces and places of their choice.
- Providing a space for the participant to discuss what is happening in her life.
- Supporting and encouraging the participant to access allied and other health related services.

**Skills and knowledge required.**
- Patient, flexible and understanding.
- Have a contemporary view of disability.
- A recognition, the society in which we live does not always give everyone the same opportunities.
- The ability to encourage with respect
- Able to accept responsibility.
- Good communication skills.
- Able to work as part of a team.
- Able to cope with the physical and emotional / psychological demands of the job
- **Training and supervision arrangements**:

- We will provide you with the specific required trainings that may be needed but may include (but not limited to the following)
- Training plans will be developed and delivered by Jarrahs Supports or a 3rd party person or platform.
- Worker’s Orientation Program (as determined at the time)
- Infection prevention and control module

**Security and mandatory requirements**
- The following are required to be maintained throughout your employment:

- NDIS Worker’s Screening Check that allows you to work in the NDIS sector.
- NDIS Workers Orientation Module and any updates to that module that is determined by the NDIS.
- Proof of right to work as determined by the relevant Gov agency.
- First Aid and CPR As per your first aid allowance payment you receive.
- Driver's License. As determined by the relevant laws of the State of WA

**Section 3: Qualifications and Memberships**

Required qualifications.

Certificate III (or higher) in Disability or other Human Services type certificate.

OR

Through interview / recommendation or previous work experience in a customer focused role it is determined a suitable understanding of how supports should be delivered to an individual who receives NDIS supports.

OR

A lived experience as a person with disability or a carer for family / friend person with a disability.

**Job Type**: Casual

**Salary**: $40.26 - $88.58 per hour

Expected hours: 4 - 12 per week

Schedule:

- Afternoon shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Morning shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Penalty rates

**Language**:

- excellent English language skills (required)

Work Location: In person