Job Description

🚨 URGENT: MALE DISABILITY SUPPORT WORKER NEEDED 🚨

📍 Location: Golden Grove, South Australia 5125

✅ Service Commences: 2nd June 2025

💰 Pay Rate: SCHADS Award Level 2.1 (based on experience and qualifications)

🕒 Shifts: To be confirmed during onboarding — may include flexible or extended hours

💪 Are You a Strong, Experienced Support Worker?

We are urgently hiring Disability Support Workers to support a complex Young Person (YP) with high-intensity needs in Golden Grove, SA. If you have the resilience, experience, and passion to make a difference, we want to hear from you.

⚠️ Client Overview: High-Intensity & Complex Needs

This role involves supporting a young male client with significant behavioural and medical challenges. Due to the intensity of this case, applicants must be physically fit, emotionally resilient, and confident in managing high-risk behaviours.

🧠 Medical Conditions

• Intellectual Disability
• Autism Spectrum Disorder – Level 3
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

🔥 Behavioural Challenges You’ll Manage

• Absconding (running away)
• Threatening/intimidating behaviour
• Physical aggression
• Verbal aggression

This role requires workers with prior experience managing escalations and de-escalating behavioural crises in a calm, structured, and trauma-informed manner.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Supervise and support a complex young person in day-to-day routines
• Monitor and respond to high-risk behaviours using trained strategies
• Assist with personal care, meal preparation, and medication compliance
• Maintain a safe environment for the client and yourself
• Support with emotional regulation, independence-building, and community access
• Record daily progress, incidents, and updates professionally

📋 What We’re Looking For

✔️ Minimum 2 years of experience supporting clients with high-intensity or complex behaviours

✔️ Clear and confident spoken and written English

✔️ Physically fit and capable of responding quickly to behavioural episodes

✔️ Ability to follow structured behaviour support plans

✔️ Strong boundary-setting, patience, and resilience

✔️ Preferably experienced working with young people (YPs) in the disability or residential sector

🎓 Mandatory Requirements

📌 Certificate III or IV in Disability, Youth Work, or Individual Support (or equivalent)

📌 Training in youth mental health and/or trauma-informed care would also be highly regarded.

📌 NDIS Worker Screening Check

📌 Employee Working with Children Check (SA)

📌 National Police Check (current within 12 months)

📌 Current First Aid & CPR Certification

📌 Valid Australian Driver’s License + Reliable, Insured Vehicle

🚀 Why Join Connecting Families?

At Connecting Families, we provide tailored support to individuals with complex needs. Our team is professional, trauma-informed, and driven by compassion. You'll be part of a dedicated network working to uplift lives in meaningful, sustainable ways.

📣 Training & Onboarding

📅 Support Service Starts: 2nd June 2025

All successful applicants will be onboarded and trained before the start date.

💥 Ready for a Role That Challenges and Rewards You? Apply Now!

If you're a strong male support worker with experience in high-risk, high-intensity disability support, this role offers the chance to create real, positive impact in a young person’s life.

📩 Apply now to join Connecting Families — where every shift empowers a future.