Want to make a difference in a person’s life in a positive way and get a sense of meaning from your work? Looking for flexible work over a 7-day roster?

Community Living Project (CLP) is seeking a mature, enthusiastic, and flexible person to fill the lead worker role in a team that is facilitating a good life for a woman living in her own home in the eastern suburbs. Working alongside her family, your day to day tasks will be guided by the woman’s vision, goals, and dreams. The focus is on enabling her to live a purposeful life in the community, maintaining a calm household, and building her competencies and valued roles.

You will get to know and embrace the woman’s gifts, interests, and skills and through this, help to facilitate and enhance her relationships in the local community by providing administrative functions and oversight for her support team. She loves her home, art, and crafts, and has her own small business selling flower arrangements to local businesses.

You will join a team of support workers as lead worker in partnership with her family and work across a 24-hour, 7-day pw roster that includes passive overnights and active daytime support.

This role is right for a person who is:

• Flexible and can work 12-17 hours per week
• A great communicator and able to receive instruction
• Persistent, pedantic to detail, and has strong documentation skills
• Patient, mature and willing to assist this woman to live independently in her own home
• Able to build rapport and respect for the woman and her family
• Able to provide seizure response or are willing to learn
• Hold (or willing to obtain) a DHS Screening Clearance, training to assist with medication and First Aid Certificate, as well a driver’s license and roadworthy vehicle

You will be given excellent employee training and development and will work with a supportive and collaborative team. Previous work with an individual living with a disability is highly considered although not essential.

A position description is attached.