Disability Support Worker. Casual - Central Coast

About the Role

As a Disability Support Worker, you will be providing person-centred active support to people living with disability on the Central Coast. Supported Independent Living (SIL) is supporting people with disability in shared housing or in their own home, providing various supports including personal care and daily living assistance. You can expect to work across a 24 / 7 roster.

Key Responsibilities

• Support clients with mental health challenges, complex needs, and high behaviours of concern
• Passionate about promoting active, healthy living
• Assist with personal care tasks (e.g. bathing, dressing) and manual handling
• Availability for short-notice shifts and sleepovers is essential
• Implement person-centred active support and follow behaviour support plans
• Advocate for client choice while ensuring safety and compliance
• Log daily care and changes in needs to ensure informed, coordinated support

Skills & Experience

Successful candidates will be required to clear all state-based probity checks; including but not limited to a National Criminal History Record Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check.

Benefits

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 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, refugees and asylum seekers.

Empowering people with disability to live life the way they choose is at the heart of how Life Without Barriers has operated for over 25 years. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and continue this mission. Support people with disability to have the choice, control, and independence to live their best life. If you’re passionate about inclusivity, respect, and making a meaningful difference, this is the career move for you.

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.