Residential Support Worker

Location: Colac- Brand: Community, Residential & Pathways- Date Posted: 1 Dec 2024- **Location**:Colac, VIC
- **Employment type**:Casual
- **Hourly range**:From $33.41 hourly + 11.5% Super + Salary packaging option
- **Plus Non-profit salary packaging up to $15,900 per annum each FBT year, plus additional meals and entertainment benefits.**
- Here at genU, we’re united in our mission to empower people to reach their full potential._
- Our work supports multi generations of people to create and embrace opportunities to connect, participate and thrive. We offer a diverse range of services that include disability support, senior services, training and employment across Australia. Reflecting our heritage, we are proud to be one of the largest NDIS providers in Australia._
- As a profit-for-purpose organisation, we reinvest into areas that help to build more inclusive communities._

**Hey You**:
In your role as a **Residential Support Worker**, you will encourage clients to become self-sufficient and lead fulfilling lives by offering them person-centered support, community access and personal care. You will join a collaborative and supportive team, who will provide individualised training so you can best support our varied cohort of residents.

You will be a compassionate and reliable worker with a focus on empowering our participants to live their best lives. You will have an empathic approach to service delivery, with a flexible and adaptable style, a sense of humour, and meticulous attention to detail.

**Working hours**:
You will be working in various homes across Colac region. The shifts currently on offer are a mixture of weekday and weekend along with active overnight shifts and all applicants must be able to workdays and night shifts on a regular basis.

**Please note we require you to work a combination of shifts, including day, afternoon, and active night through the week and weekends.**

Current Shifts on offer are:

- Morning - Daily: from 7:00am - 10:00am
- Afternoon - Daily: 3:00pm - 10:00pm
- Sleepover - 10:00pm - 7:00am

**About You**:
***You will meet the following requirements**:

- Certificate III or IV in Disability
- Current Victorian Drivers licence.
- Completed First Aid and CPR certificate.
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check clearance
- NDIS Worker Orientation Certificate - "Quality, Safety & You"
- Current Working with Children Check **VIC** for paid employment.
- Ability to work the hours outlined above

**genU Benefits & Culture**:

- At genU we're a group of passionate, driven people who want everyone’s lives to be happier and healthier, especially people with disabilities, the ageing and those experiencing disadvantage. We operate solely for community benefit and invest back into the same communities in which our services are delivered._
- genU welcomes diversity, including diversity of race, culture, spirituality, gender, age, identity, ability, and sexuality. We are committed to providing a welcoming, innovative, safe, empowering, and respectful environment for all and living these values each and every day._

**genU staff have access to a range of benefits, inc**luding but not limited to the following**:

- **Investment in You**:genU is committed to providing opportunities for career progression. You will have access to a range of accredited training modules, staff mentoring programs and our internal jobs board.
- **Commitment to Staff Health & Wellbeing**: 24/7 access to an innovative, holistic employee assistance program that supports your emotional, mental, financial, and physical health.
- **Increase your Take Home Pay**: salary package up to $15,900 per annum each FBT year plus further meals and $2,650 entertainment benefits.
- **Employee Discount Program**: save money with employee discounts and savings at over 450 of Australia’s most loved retailers and service providers including Coles, Woolworths & JB HI-FI.
- **Study Scholarship**: all genU employees are eligible for a 25% scholarship towards undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Torrens University.
- **Employee Referral Program**: refer someone to work at genU and receive a generous cash bonus once that person completes their 6-month qualifying period

**Interested?**: