Support Worker
Core
Provide high-quality, person-centred support to customers with disability in supported accommodation services, assisting with daily tasks, community access, and fostering independence.
Role type
Support Worker (Disability Services)
Builds
Supported accommodation services for people with disability
Domain
Disability support / Social Services
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Manual handling techniques, catheter care, bowel care, medication administration, behaviour management, wheelchair use, safe transport practices
Preferred skills
Lived experience of disability, flexibility for varied shifts (including nights/weekends), calm under pressure
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Assist customers with daily tasks and community access; administer medication and manage behaviour of concern; provide personal care including meal time management; ensure safe transport and manual handling practices
Seniority
Entry to Mid-level, hands-on IC