• Disability Support Worker; experience working with children and young people.

Windarring Ltd is a Disability Service Provider in central Victoria. Windarring provides community participation programs, day programs, under eighteen year old programs, supported travel, holiday programs, supported living and respite care.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Windarring team as a Disability Support Worker, with the focus on working with children & young people, in school holidays, weekend activities and after school support.

This position will mainly be positioned at Kyneton and Castlemaine, but may require you to work at our other day service sites in Gisborne and Bendigo.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• Diploma/Cert IV Disability Support Services or equivalent and relevant work experience in Disability Support Services or a related sector (including Medication Administration)
• Ability to align with Windarring ethics, mission, values
• Participant focus: able to work collaboratively with participants, families and staff to ensure individualised service, safety and quality
• People and organisation skills: can work effectively at all levels in multi-disciplinary teams
• Demonstrated high level interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Previous experience, working with children & young people in Disability
• Ability to cope with change & self-motivation; openness to change combined with a willingness to learn new concepts.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA;

• Current First Aid, CPR and Anaphylaxis training
• Information Technology Proficiency: in Excel, Microsoft Word, Outlook and PowerPoint, including the ability to quickly pick-up new systems and technologies
• NDIS Worker screening check (which includes a Police check)
• Working with Children’s Check; EMPLOYEE
• Current valid Victorian Driver’s licence
• Applicants must have the right the work in Australia and provide supporting documentation

BENEFITS:

• Attractive remuneration, plus Super
• Salary Packaging, increasing your take home pay
• Potential career development opportunities
• An opportunity to build long term relationships between support workers and participants

Windarring is committed to child safety. We have zero tolerance of child abuse. Our robust human resources, recruitment and vetting practices are strictly adhered to during the application and interviewing process. Applicants should be aware that you will need to provide a working with children check, police and reference checks (as we see fit) to ensure that we are recruiting the right people.