Careers

About the Role

Provide one-on-one support to young people living with disability in their homes or out in the community. This role involves working short, split shifts and requires a caring, dedicated approach to supporting young individuals living with complex needs.

Shift times:

Weekly Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 7am to 9am and 2:30pm to 5:30pm

Fortnightly Saturday: 10am to 2pm

Key Responsibilities

• Provide assistance to young people with their daily personal care tasks and domestic assistance including meal preparation, ensuring they feel safe, respected, and empowered
• Foster a nurturing and positive environment that helps the young people we support feel understood and valued whether it be during community outings, social activities, or appointments
• Follow person-centred active support plans and behaviour support plans respectfully
• Ability to remain calm, patient, and encouraging in challenging or emotionally sensitive situations
• Build meaningful, trusting relationships with children and their families

Skills & Experience

• Experience working with young people who display behaviours of concern and complex trauma is essential
• An unrestricted New South Wales driver’s licence
• Committed to work flexible hours across the week, including public holidays
• Demonstrated ability to use basic technology and software on a mobile and desktop
• A current First Aid Certificate, which includes the course HLTAID003 or HLTAID011

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

Benefits:

• Non-profit salary packaging benefits with Maxxia and other employee discounts
• Pay rates starting from $41.76 (casual) as per the SCHADS Award
• Short commute working close to home in a welcoming & inclusive environment
• An opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations in a growing industry

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.

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit https://www.lwb.org.au/careers/ for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly. 

For any other enquiries, contact Caprisse Angemi at caprisse.angemi@lwb.org.au.