Support Worker
Core
Provide personal care, mobility support, and community access for young people with disabilities, focusing on independent living skills and wellbeing.
Role type
Support Worker (Disability Services)
Builds
Personal care plans, community access programs, independent living skills training
Domain
Disability support / Social services
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Manual handling and hoist operation, personal care (showering, toileting, continence), meal preparation, care plan implementation, community access driving, behavior support, epilepsy and wound care support
Preferred skills
Lived experience of disability, experience with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities, experience with children and young people
Technologies
Hoists, service vehicles (vans)
Responsibilities
Provide personal care promoting dignity and independence; support safe manual handling and mobility; follow individual care plans for health needs; prepare meals and assist with mealtimes; support participants to access the community and engage with peers; develop positive relationships with customers
Seniority
Entry to Mid-level, hands-on IC