The Disability Support Worker offers carer support services and is responsible for the delivery of services purchased through the NDIA.

The Support Worker will be required to travel to various locations to deliver services. The role will undertake various support item delivery in accordance with the participants NDIS plan. Support categories include; assistance with daily life, transport, assistance with social and community participation, improved daily living skills etc.

• Ongoing support and development
• $31.41per hour + penalty rates + superannuation + salary packaging
• A rewarding career with a nationally recognised provider of mental health and disability services

About Wellways

Wellways Australia exists to help all Australians lead active, fulfilling and inclusive lives in their community. We achieve this by supporting and working with individuals, families and the community to help them imagine and achieve better lives. We advocate for change to ensure people have access to the best possible care and information when they need it. We provide a wide range of services and assistance for people with mental health issues, disabilities, youth and older Australians and those requiring community care.

Wellways is committed to reconciliation, lived experience and inclusivity. We strongly encourage and warmly welcome people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people with a lived experience of mental health and disability and peoplewho identify as LGBTIQA+ to apply. Even if you only meet some of the criteria, we'd love to hear from you.

If you'd like to know more about our reconciliation commitment, click here Reconciliation | Wellways

About You

You're a passionate, empathetic and caring individual who is looking to make an invaluable positive impact on the lives of others. You relish a challenge and new experience. You're calm, collected and resilient in the face of adversity and are looking to carry these qualities with you to the front line to start helping those in need. You are an independent, proactive thinker and worker but are also able to follow direction/s given by your managers and can work within a tight-knit team. If this is you, you're in luck: we have the perfect opportunity for you to do all of these things - right here, with us.

About the role

The Support Worker will be required to travel to various locations to deliver services. The role will undertake various support item delivery in accordance with the participants NDIS plan. Support categories include; assistance with daily life, transport, assistance with social and community participation, improved daily living skills etc.

Key responsibilities include, however, are not limited to:

• Domestic and daily living support
• Assisting people with personal care
• Transport
• Meal preparation and shopping assistance
• Promoting independent living and community participation
• Availability to cover a range of shifts including sleepovers, weekends and more than 1 shift per day is highly desirable

Skills & experience:

• Minimum Qualification in Certificate 3 or 4 in Mental Health, Disability, Aged Care or Home and Community Care or willingness to obtain, study while working is desirable; Wellways also values lived experience
• Expertise across a diversity of disability types, including mental health
• Previous hoisting/lifters, medications, and community access experience is desirable

Pre-employment requirements:

• Evidence of working rights within Australia such as a passport or birth certificate
• A current valid Driver's License and an insured and registered vehicle
• Satisfactory Police Records Check
• Blue Card and Yellow Card/NDIS Workers Screening Check (Current or must obtain prior to employment)
• NDIS Worker Orientation Module Certificate: https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/workers/training-course
• Evidence of full COVID vaccination or valid medical exemption

For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Shan Beasley - Team Leader |0468 573 065

The health and safety of Wellways participants and employees is our highest priority and all Wellways roles are covered by directives that require mandatory COVID vaccinations.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of COVID-19 vaccination with Booster or valid medical exemption prior to commencement.