Muswellbrook - PT 40 Hours Per Fortnight
About the Role:
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.
Based in Muswellbrook, this role may also require travel to surrounding areas including Scone and Singleton.
Benefits:
* SCHAD's Award Level 2 Pay rates from $34.58 – $37.73 (base rate) or $43.23 - $47.16 (casual rate)
* Flexible rostered hours
* Fitness Passport access for you and your family (eligibility criteria applies)
* 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.
Skills and Experience:
Essential:
* Strong communication and relationship-building skills
* Resilient, adaptable, and confident supporting people from diverse backgrounds
* Able to prioritise and problem-solve under pressure
* Flexible availability (shift work, weekends, public holidays, sleepovers)
* Confident using Microsoft Word and Outlook
* Current Australian Driver's Licence, Working With Children Check, and NSW NDIS Worker Screening Check
* Able to pass a National Criminal History CheckExperience supporting high-needs disability clients
* Access to a personal vehicle for work use, if required
Desirable:
* Certificate III or IV in Disability Support (or equivalent, desirable)
* Understanding of NDIA processes (desirable)Handy craft skills such as sewing, knitting, or crocheting (desirable)
About Us:
For over 65 years, Challenge Community Services has been empowering individuals and strengthening communities. We provide disability accommodation, foster care, allied health, and supported employment services – all with a focus on inclusion and respect.
Closing Date - 1st May 2026
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we work and live, and pay my respects to their elders past and present.
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