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Disability Development & Support Officer - Bundoora

Life Without Barriers (National)
  • DDSO1Q
  • Part Time
  • Bundoora
  • VDAS (495987)
  • Award rate remuneration plus full salary sacrificing benefits

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers offers prospective employees, excellent career opportunities within the Disability Development and Support space. As an organisation at the forefront of the sector and a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation we currently employee 8,000 employees in more than 530 communities across Australia. We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

Within the Victorian Disability Accommodation Services arena, we are growing and continue to make a positive difference in the daily lives of adults with disability across 130 houses providing support to 500+ clients across the Melbourne Metropolitan area.   

The House Profile:

Working with the house team to support clients and provide high quality services and achieve positive outcomes with and for this mixed house (2 male and 3 females) with high level physical support needs including: manual handling, personal care. Some clients are visually impaired, and all are non-verbal.  The residents support needs vary in terms of levels of independence and support in terms of personal care, medication management and the level of behavioural support required. The residents enjoy engaging with staff and visitors, outings for meals and coffee, visits to parks and the beach and participating in Day Programs and 1:1 support. The team are experienced and are ready and willing to provide positive mentoring support.  

Roster hours

This is a part-time roster line with fortnightly splits of 34/45.30 including a combination of morning, afternoons and full day shifts with no sleep-overs or active nights.

Essential Skills & Experience

  • Certificate IV in Disability or equivalent
  • Demonstrated experience as a disability support worker supporting clients within a similar setting with complex needs and behaviours
  • Sound understanding and knowledge of NDIS 
  • A current Senior First Aid (level 2) Certificate
  • A current unrestricted Victorian Drivers Licence
  • A commitment to supporting and promoting the individual needs, skills, abilities and personal goals of people with disabilities
  • Australian Citizenship or Permanent residency status is an essential requirement for consideration for this position
  • Demonstrated compliance with NDIS requirements for Disability Support Workers

Benefits

  • A role that is stimulating, rewarding and uniquely satisfying
  • A career with a path for further development and personal growth
  • Work in a supportive team making a positive impact in the lives of clients actively living with a disability, achieving inspiring individual goals and helping them live life to the fullest
  • Award rate remuneration plus full salary sacrificing benefits

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).
 
How to Apply: Ref Job 495986. Include your resume and covering letter in one document and click ‘Apply now’ and follow the prompts. For any general enquiries (not applications) including persons with disability that require adjustments please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Disability Development & Support Officer - Bundoora enquiry via EthicalJobs.

 Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here: https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA

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