• Location Cooma – Jindabyne NSW – some travel in Snowy-Monaro Region.
• Employment Type Permanent Part-Time – 15 hours per week initially, with scope to grow.
• Terms & Conditions Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Award
• Salary To be negotiated depending on qualifications and experience.

About Cooma Challenge

Cooma Challenge Ltd. (CCL) has been a leading local provider of services in the Snowy-Monaro community since 1954. Cooma Challenge works within the disability and aged care sectors to support people to live the life they choose.

About this role

CCL’s Support Coordinator:

• Coordinates the implementation of supports for NDIS participants.
• Strengthen and enhances participants’ abilities to coordinate supports and participate in the community.
• Ensures mainstream services meet their obligations.
• Builds the capacity of participants to achieve greater independence.

Key responsibilities include:

• Communicate, and work effectively, with Participants to enable them to exercise choice and control in achieving their goals and aspirations as outlined in their NDIS plan.
• Support Participants to connect to providers.
• Maintain up-to-date information about the full range of supports available in the Snowy-Monaro region.
• Maximise Participant budgets and ensure they receive maximum value for money from their plans.
• Build respectful relationships with Participants, guardians, service providers and other key stakeholders.

Selection Criteria include:

• Minimum 3 years experience working with vulnerable people, including organising services supplied by, or in partnership with, multiple service providers.
• Sound understanding of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, or demonstrated ability to quickly acquire.
• Relevant Qualification/s (eg. Certificate IV in Disability, Social Work, Allied Health or other registered Health Professional) or demonstrated capacity and willingness to undertake.
• A commitment to promoting the rights of all people to be treated with dignity, respect, and social and community inclusion and working within a person-centred, human rights framework.