As a Support Worker, you’ll help clients with disabilities build skills, confidence, and independence through engaging activities and in-home support.
From cooking, music, and crafts to leisure sports and community outings, you’ll play a vital role in enriching lives. Some shifts may include afternoons, evenings, and sleepovers.
*** Please note that availability to work weekends is a requirement of this role.
Benefits:
- SCHAD’s Award Level 2 Pay rates from $36.22– $39.53 (base rate) or $45.28 - $49.41 (casual rate)
- Flexible rostered hours
- Training and professional development opportunities
- Annual flu vaccination
- Real job satisfaction—make a difference every day
- Salary packaging + meal/entertainment card (if eligible)
Duties:
- Support clients with daily living and medical needs where required
- Encourage independence and skill-building through activities such as cooking, crafts, music, sports, and reading
- Provide in-home and community-based support tailored to individual goals
- Build positive, respectful relationships with clients and their families
- Handle challenges with empathy, patience, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to actively support participants in a range of activities, including outdoor activities and swimming, with craft skills such as sewing and knitting highly regarded to align with current Community Supports activities.