Disability Support Worker

POSITION

DESCRIPTION

Disability Support

Worker

**ABN 46 127 650 626**

**CDSS (Core Disability Support Service)**

**Level 1**

**162 Grand Boulevard**

**Joondalup**

**WA 6027**

**Phone: 0425077512**

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**Position Description**

**Table of Contents**

Position Details.............................................................................................. 3

Remuneration Arrangements........................................................................3

Primary Purpose............................................................................................ 3

Key Result Area / Main Responsibilities........................................................ 4

Typical Qualifications & Experience.............................................................. 5

Key Behavioural Indicators............................................................................6

Selection Criteria........................................................................................... 6

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**Position Details**

Title: _Disability Support Worker _Reports To: Client Services coordinator Employment Conditions: Casual

Modern Award - “Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industrial

Award 2022”. 2.1 □

**Remuneration Arrangements**

Classification Equivalent:
Modern Award - “Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industrial

Award 2022”. □

Modern Award - Social and Community Services Employee - Casual

Performance Review: Annual

**Primary Purpose**

As part of a team, carry out lawful duties, directions (as per individual duty roster), and group/program/individual activities aimed at supporting and assisting persons with a disability in their living and/or community environment. Staff are also expected to present a positive and professional image of the Association when interacting with clients, family members, advocates, service providers, funding bodies and the general community.

**Job Purpose**:
To support people living in their own homes in their day-to-day living, ensuring that they have maximum opportunity for developing valued and valuing lifestyles. Support workers will be clear that their professional engagement with clients is concerned with

generating quality personal relationships, which are supportive and life enhancing. They

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to the home as well as facilitating access to community services and facilities. To support client with all aspects of every day living - including shopping.

**Key Result Area / Main Responsibilities**

1. Carry out designated duties/tasks as per the service duty roster, and other reasonable duties as instructed by the employer from time to time.

2. To perform direct care duties for individual clients as specified in the Personal

Care Profile including (but not limited to):

- Showering/bathing
- Dressing/grooming
- Toileting
- Preparing meals
- Assisting individual clients to eat their meals
- Providing clients with additional support where required, such as gastrostomy feeding where appropriate training has been provided.
- Assist with client’s physical and mobility requirements in accordance with

training provided and the relevant workplace health and safety standard,

including transferring of clients.

3. To provide other support to individual clients as required such as:

- Personal administration, shopping for and with clients, banking and paying bills (where applicable)
- Supervision of client’s medication requirements
- Washing and ironing of personal clothes
- Ensuring that bathing areas and clients appliances are kept in a clean condition
- Performing household duties and ensuring the house is clean and tidy
- Tidying of clients rooms
- Identifying the need for, and supporting client to attend, medical/therapist appointments
- Behavioural support
- Transport as required

4. Facilitate community inclusion and participation, dependent on individual needs, abilities and preferences, and support clients to establish and maintain relationships and interests through access to community activities, venues and services.

5. Carry out as instructed and/or designated - and demonstrate initiative - task and activities aimed at meeting the clients personal/living community needs, team objectives and/or program goals whic