Disability Support Practitioner

7 hours ago

Beacon Hill, Australia Cerebral Palsy Alliance Full time

Location

Beacon Hill, NSW, Australia

At Cerebral Palsy Alliance, we value diversity, foster an inclusive culture and champion equitable opportunities. We strongly encourage applications from candidates with a diverse range of backgrounds and lived experiences including people with disability, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and the LGBTQIA+ community.

Based in Beacon Hill, we currently have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team and provide support for our clients, including Aboriginal people. We are looking for individuals to enhance social and cultural connectedness and improve wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal people.

Join us and make a positive difference to the lives of people with disabilities, and to grow your career as part of our alliance of great minds. Our shared values are Passionate, Respectful, Ethical, Curious and Courageous. 

While all applications are welcome, these roles are targeted for Aboriginal people, who will be prioritized in the assessment process.
Working for us we can offer you a competitive hourly rate and amazing benefits:

  • The ability to spend time supporting and empowering Aboriginal people with cerebral palsy

  • Up to 10 days unpaid leave per year for Ceremonial Leave

  • $33.42 - $34.47 ph + Super + Penalty Rates

  • $100 per year Well-being Allowance that you can use to enhance your wellbeing

  • Discounted gym membership for you and your family, using Fitness Passport

  • Employee Assistance Program to ensure effective solution-focused counselling

  • Paid Employee Referral Bonus Program, where you can be rewarded for referring a friend that joins CPA.

We also offer exceptional training to support you:

  • Specialist training opportunities

  • Buddy shifts with CPA's experienced Disability Support Workers

  • Opportunity to complete a nationally recognised qualification such as Certificate III in Individual Support and/or a Certificate IV in Disability

  • We invest $5,000 in training in your first year.

Duties will include:

  • Building and supporting cultural connectedness for Aboriginal clients and ensure they enjoy high levels of social and emotional wellbeing

  • Delivering personalised support in a group home setting by assisting clients at mealtimes, personal care, administrating medication and manual handling

  • Facilitation of cultural activities in the group home

  • Ensuring clients have access to information to make their own choices and build skills to be more independent

  • Transporting clients, using CPA minivan, if applicable.

Requirements:

  • Knowledge and genuine commitment to helping clients to maintain a distinctive cultural, spiritual and physical relationship with their land and waters

  • Knowledge, understanding and sensitivity towards the social and cultural needs of Aboriginal people and their families.

  • Ability to navigate complex and diverse client family dynamics

  • A current NSW Driver's Licence (P2 minimum) is preferred

  • Live locally to the area.

Important information: 
At CPA the safety of our staff and clients is of paramount importance. We have assessed this role type as requiring a high level of physical functionality with some inherent requirements. For more information on what that may mean for this role please click  here.
Please let us know if you have any pre-existing injuries or illnesses which you are currently seeking, or have sought, medical treatment for which you think may impact your ability to fulfil the inherent requirements of this role. CPA is committed to supporting an inclusive work environment and engaging workers with diverse lived experience. We will happily consider and accommodate reasonable adjustments that may be required to support candidates throughout the recruitment process, and to be successful and safe employees of CPA. 
Cerebral Palsy Alliance is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Cerebral Palsy Alliance upholds, advocates for, and protects the  rights, wellbeing and safety of people with a disability. We are a  child safe organisation and all workers are responsible to adhere to the NDIS Worker Code of Conduct. 
CPA is a smoke free workplace including in, on and around CPA sites and vehicles. 
Cerebral Palsy Alliance considers that being Aboriginal or a Torres Strait Islander is a genuine occupational requirement for this position under s 14 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW).

If you have any questions about the role or require any reasonable adjustments to enable you to equitably participate in the recruitment process, please contact Angus Swift on angus.swift@cerebralpalsy.org.au.

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