**JOIN US - SHAPE LIVES - BUILD YOUR CAREER**
**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 rostered hours
- Fitness Passport access for you and your family
- 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
**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 Check
- Experience supporting high-needs disability clients
**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.
**How to apply**
Confidential enquiries can be made by contacting Carla Walker
**Closing Date - 5th September 2025**
**We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we work and live, and pay my respects to their elders past and present.