New South Wales - Broken Hill - Casual Position
LiveBetter have a fantastic opportunity for you to secure employment with a well-recognised, rapidly expanding, and essential support service!
We have a casual opportunity in Broken Hill, New South Wales for a Disability Support Worker to join our dynamic team.
Benefits
- Opportunity to increase income through extra hours and weekend work
- Excellent salary benefits including salary packaging to boost take home pay
- Hands‑on buddy shifts and induction training
- Opportunities to upskill, develop and progress within the organisation
- A dedicated leadership team to assist, guide and encourage you
- Strong focus on employee health and wellbeing with assistance programs
What your day‑to‑day will look like
Our Disability Support Workers support people in their day‑to‑day living. We provide quality 24 / 7 care in our supported independent living accommodation settings (Supported Independent Living and Group Homes), ensuring a safe and nurturing environment for our customers.
You will aid, support and direct care for customers living with a disability within group homes, day programs, vocational training, and drop‑in support in customer homes. You will also provide support in external environments, such as shopping centres, doctor’s surgeries and recreation areas including parks, accompanying customers to support them on community access visits and appointments. Customers supported by Disability Support Workers commonly live with some level of intellectual or behavioural disability. Many customers supported have, in addition, a physical and / or a psychiatric disability.
Broad availability to provide services in a 24 / 7 environment, weekend and overnight availability is a must (generous penalties apply). Availability during the Christmas period will also be required between 8 December 2025 to 1 February 2026.
What we need from you
- Well‑developed communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills for liaising with staff at all levels in the organisation, external providers, and external bodies
- Resilience, confidence and the ability to work independently and as a team
- Ability to act with trust and integrity and represent the organisation in a professional, and knowledgeable manner
- Demonstrated ability to interpret and write reports
- Willingness to undertake personal care services with our customers
- Willingness to work shift work, regular sleepovers and active nights, weekends, public holidays and school holidays with significant availability
- Ability to obtain the NDIS Workers Screen Check prior to commencement
- Ability to use computers and learn a variety of software and programs
- A smart phone
- Current unrestricted Australian Drivers Licence and willingness to undertake travel in accordance with responsibilities of the role
- Current First Aid and CPR Certificate
We embrace Equal Employment Chance that promotes a diverse workforce and encourage applications from First Nations and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and applicants from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. People of all ages and abilities including people with lived experience or knowledge of disability are also encouraged to consider a career with us.
You must have the right to live and work in Australia.
To join our vibrant teams, please submit your application!
We are not requesting a copy of your resume at this stage, so please complete the requested work history and education information on the application page. A valid copy of your driver’s licence must be provided at this point.
To help make the process speedy, we encourage you to have or apply for all necessary checks upon application.
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