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Opportunity

A Community Support Worker plays an integral role in helping people with disabilities thrive by supporting them to achieve their goals in environments outside of their everyday routine. As a community support worker, you will encourage our customers to engage with their community in any way that they choose, empowering them to build independent skills. As relief supports, you will have the opportunity to support our customers across various locations in Perth Metro Area while you benefit from a permanent part-time contract with consistent shifts.

About the Role

As a Community Support Officer, you will:

• Provide active support focusing on maximising engagement and participation in the customer’s daily life
• Accompany and support customers in a varied range of social activities such as: such as going out for lunch/coffee, grocery shopping, classes, movies, or appointments (including hydrotherapy and swimming)
• Promote participation and social connection with customer’s family and friends, with a focus on maximising engagement and advocating for our customers
• Support customers with their daily living needs, such as: personal care, domestic tasks, meal planning and personal administration (e.g. shopping, banking, paying bills)
• Undertake writing of reports, shifts notes, travel records and incident report
• Be confident driving wheelchair accessible vans (e.g. Toyota Hiace)

About You

• Comfortable driving wheelchair accessible vans (e.g. Toyota Hiace)
• Adaptable communication skills and a strong focus on person-centred care
• A Certificate III or IV in a caring discipline is highly desirable
• Willingness to work in different locations and change locations on short notice within the Perth Metro Area (max. 30 minutes radius)
• Willingness to obtain a National Police Clearance no older than 6 months, Current Driver’s Licence, NDIS Worker’s Orientation Module, NDIS Worker Screening check, Current First Aid Training Certificate (HLTAID011 minimum), COVID-19 Vaccination (min. 2 doses)

At Ability WA, we care about finding the right people to join us hence encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet 100% of our selection requirements.

Availability Requirements

• To ensure the best match we ask that you can commit to minimum of 3 days per week
• As most of our shifts are on weekdays, availability between Monday-Friday in the following time frames is required:
  • Morning Shifts – 6:00AM – 4:00PM
  • Afternoon Shifts - 1:00PM – 11:00PM

Benefits

Being part of Ability WA includes some great benefits:

• Non-profit organisation salary packaging benefits up to a maximum of $18,550
• Leave loading, paid parental leave, Employee Assistance Program, Private Health Insurance and Workplace Banking Program discount
• Extensive training and skill-building opportunities throughout your role

To Apply

If you like what we’re about and think you’ll be a good fit, we’d love to meet you!

Click apply to submit your application including a resume and cover letter outlining your suitability for this position. For any questions, contact: recruitment@abilitywa.com.au

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Ability WA is committed to empowering all people to realise their abilities and thrive in their communities. We embrace the unique strengths of every person within our organisation and welcome people of all backgrounds, abilities, gender identities, ethnicities and cultures as we continue to grow our diverse workforce.

Ability WA focuses on sourcing high calibre candidates through direct recruitment campaigns. Please do not send unsolicited agency CVs or contact Ability WA staff regarding unsolicited CVs