DSA is currently looking for dedicated and experienced Disability Support Workers to join our Goulburn team!
**Your role**:
- Supporting adults with mental health barriers and intellectual disabilities who can display psychosocial, verbal, and physical challenging behaviours
- Following positive behavioral support plans to encourage participants to live independently
- Provide personal care with dignity and respect
- Support participants within the community - transport to appointments, shopping, events they wish to attend.
- Promote choice and control and show willingness to participate in participants hobbies and interests
- Live by our values and bring a positive, proactive, and engaging version of yourself!
**What's in it for you?**
- Regular and flexible casual shifts across our 3 Goulburn homes.
- An opportunity to be part of a dynamic team whos common goal is to support participants hobbies and interests, goals, and day to day lives.
- Pay rates starting from $38.08 per hour (casual)
- Learning and development opportunities and additional in-house training to enhance your current skills
**Additional requirements**:
- Previous experience supporting adults with challenging behaviours
- Someone who is confident in de-escalating situations and has strong communication skills
- Flexibility and availability to work on a rotating roster
- Current NSW Driver's License (P2 and above) and vehicle.
- A great understanding of person-centered active support and willingness to embrace this model of support
- First Aid/ CPR | NDIS Worker Screening Clearance | WWCC | Covid19 vaccination
- TCI training, epilepsy management training - desirable.
**About DSA**:
We're very pleased to share that we have now officially joined forces with Scope Australia! The union of Scope and DSA has made us the second largest Disability Services Provider in Australia.
In NSW, we provide Employment Services, Community and Home Living, Allied Health Services, and Training options for people with disability. We have an innovative and supportive culture, guided by our values of Courage, Commitment, Connection, and Respect which is imbedded in everything we do.
**Scope as an Employer**
View our stance on inclusion and diversity, human rights and our Covid-19 policies.
If at any time you require us to adjust our recruitment process to meet your individual needs please inform the recruiter.
**_ Please note_**_, successful applicants will be required to hold a NDIS Worker Screening Check Clearance and a Working with Children Check. If you have lived or worked for a continuous period of 12 months or more in another country within the last 10 years, a certified International Police Check from that country or countries will also be required. As part of our Covid-19 response the Scope Covid-19 policy requires all our employees regardless of the job to have received at least 3 doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Please note that the offer will be conditional on meeting these requirements. _