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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.
Benefits
* SCHAD's Award Level 2 Pay rates from $34.58 – $37.73 (base rate) or $43.23 - $47.16 (casual rate)
* Flexible Working 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
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; craft skills such as sewing and knitting highly regarded to align with current Community Supports activities
Essential Skills and Experience
* 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 Check
* Experience 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)
Closing Date
31st May 2026
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