Career

Scope:

The Support Worker provides and delivers individual and personalised care and resources to participants, so that they may continue to live in their homes and freely roam in communities to make connection.

Roles and responsibilities

The Support Worker’s responsibilities may include:

• Comprehensive knowledge of the NDIS support items under the NDIS Guidelines.
• Direct involvement, assessment and support of clients ensuring Fellowship policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Working one-on-one or in a group setting supporting clients to make their own decisions, overcome barriers and strive towards achieving their goals.
• Advocate on behalf of clients to access services within the community.
• Monitoring and reporting including monitoring participant referrals, progress against NDIS Goal Plans, data collection and reporting where required.
• Mandatory administration tasks including data entry into the client management system.
• Undertake ongoing professional development as required.
• In addition to the above responsibilities, you are required to also perform any other reasonable duties as directed from time to time.