Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 24th Feb 2021
Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 7,000 employees working in more than 440 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.
The successful applicants will provide practical assistance to a person/s with complex needs and behaviours to help them achieve their personal goals and manage everyday tasks.
Our new team members must be both adaptable and flexible and have demonstrated experience working with clients with challenging behaviours and intellectual disabilities.
You must have a minimum of 3 years experience delivering 1:1 disability support and ideally have worked with clients with a variety of disabilities including; physical, intellectual and psycho-social disabilities.
Training to support clients with Epilepsy, including midazolam administration training is mandatory. Experience working with clients with Dysphagia is also beneficial.
The rosters will be a combination of days, nights and weekends.
Key Responsibilities
Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and complete the NDIS Worker Orientation module and NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.
Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact [email protected], using the subject line: Disability Support Workers enquiry via EthicalJobs.