You might know this role as a Support Worker. At AMS, we call our people Mentors, because the role is about so much more than providing support. It’s about empowering people, building confidence, developing skills, creating opportunities and helping someone live a life worth living.
We are an established, NDIS-registered provider of Supported Independent Living (SIL) and Community Participation Support. We support people with psychosocial, neurodevelopmental (including Autism Spectrum Disorder), cognitive and intellectual disability. We’re now recruiting Permanent Part-Time Mentors across our Macarthur region and part of Greater Sydney.
It means getting to know the person, understanding what matters to them and supporting them to work towards their own goals. You’re not there to do everything for someone. You’re there to help them discover what they can do. Sometimes the biggest wins are the little ones.
As a Mentor, you will support participants in their homes and in the community to:
Day to day, you will also:
Experience in disability, mental health, psychosocial support, youth work or community services is highly regarded. Just as important to us is who you are and why you want to do this work.
Recruitment is a two-way conversation. Interviews are held face to face at our Head Office in Campbelltown, where you can meet the team, learn about AMS and ask us anything.
AMS encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people with lived experience of mental health conditions.
Beyond Independence.
It is a unique opportunity to have a service in its entirety that focuses primarily on individual participants who dream of re-establishing a life of normality and re-integrating back into the community with new sets of skills that will enhance their lives.
AMS will initially focus on the kinds of participants below:
1. Young people in care or have left the Minister for Community Services' care and who need ongoing support because of their intellectual disability or complex needs.
2. People who are re-integrating into the community after leaving prison or juvenile justice facilities, Health or have persistent contact with the criminal justice system.
3. People with an intellectual disability and complex needs often include mental health issues, behaviours of concern, substance abuse issues, acquired brain injury, a background of trauma, and behaviour that places themselves (and/or others) at risk of harm.
Our Mentoring participants have the fundamental right to have their supports delivered in a safe and inclusive environment which enables them to expand their horizons and explore opportunities to:
1. Learn new skills
2. Develop prosocial relationships
3. Be a contributing member of their community
4. Improve their physical and mental health and wellbeing
5. Make choices that allow them to live the life they choose safely.
We recognise that adjusting to life in the community and finding valued roles requires support and mentoring that is non-judgemental and sensitive to each person’s life experiences whilst also being aware of the impact on and tolerance of the community. The needs and goals of each person determine the type of support they receive as Mentoring services are truly personalised to individual needs.
AMS delivers services to participants across Sydney, Wollongong and plans to expand to our wider rural communities.
