Position purpose
The Disability Support Worker sits within the MacKillop Rural Community Services (MRCS) unit which provide family support, supported playgroups, parenting and early childhood education, counselling and support to young people who are vulnerable and at risk of homelessness, in-home accommodation support to adults with a disability, and early childhood intervention to children with a disability.
The purpose of the Disability Support Worker is to provide support and assistance to NDIS participants to help them reach their potential, improve their quality of life and independence through the provision of a range of living skills, community participation and capacity building activities. The service is offered to NDIS participants living in Balranald and surrounding communities.
The Disability Support Worker is a part of the Balranald Disability Services team. The role is based in Balranald NSW and reports to the Program Manager.
**This is a Permanent Part Time position 15 hours per week**
Primary objectives
The primary objective of the role is to enhance the lives of the participants, improve their level of independence, and integration into the community by assisting them in achieving the goals set out in their personal NDIS plans.
The service does this by:
- Assisting the participants to develop life skills
- Coaching and prompting participants to build their capacity in everyday life
- Supporting participants to access regular social, leisure and community participation activities
Key selection criteria
The incumbent must possess a:
MacKillop Family Services acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australia’s First Peoples and as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which we live, work and play. We pay our deep respects to Elders past and present and acknowledge all Aboriginal children, young people, families and staff who are a part of MacKillop Family Services.
MacKillop celebrates and draws strength from diversity and respects the dignity of all people. Every person at MacKillop has the right to be safe and to be treated justly. We value every person’s ability, cultural or linguistic backgrounds, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, intersex status, relationship status, religious or spiritual beliefs, socio-economic status, and age.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
