Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 25th Sep 2020
Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of over 7,000 employees working in more than 530 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.
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.
This role is responsible for providing support and information for people with disabilities, across their life-cycle and in all domains of life, to enable access to a quality life with dignity, respect and social inclusion in the least restrictive environment.
We are looking for an experienced Disability Support Worker (DDSO2) to join our team in St Kilda in this rewarding Part -Time opportunity. You will be responsible for providing support with activities of daily living and developing, implementing and monitoring Individual Plan’s including personal care. This role provide a career path into potential House Supervisor opportunities, in a supportive, mentoring environment.
In this role you will work to facilitate the delivery of quality services and achieve positive outcomes with and for the 5 clients within the house. This role involves working with clients with various complex behaviours and includes sleepovers.
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).
Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ 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 - St Kilda - VDAS 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)