Support Worker - Glen Innes

About the Role:

As a Support Worker, you’ll help clients with disabilities build skills, confidence, and independence through engaging activities and in-home support.

From cooking, music, and crafts to leisure sports and community outings, you’ll play a vital role in enriching lives. Some shifts may include afternoons, evenings, and sleepovers.

*** Based in Glen Innes, this mobile role may require interim travel to Tenterfield while site arrangements are finalised.

Benefits:

• SCHAD’s Award Level 2 Pay rates from $34.58 – $37.73 (base rate) or $43.23 - $47.16 (casual rate)
• Flexible roster with shift work, weekends, public holidays & sleepovers
• Option to purchase extra annual leave (if eligible)
• Ongoing training & professional development
• Annual flu vaccination

Duties:

• Support clients with daily living and medical needs where required
• Encourage independence and skill-building through activities such as cooking, crafts, music, sports, and reading
• Provide in-home and community-based support tailored to individual goals
• Build positive, respectful relationships with clients and their families
• Handle challenges with empathy, patience, and problem-solving skills

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Resilient, adaptable, and confident supporting people from diverse backgrounds
• Able to prioritise and problem-solve under pressure
• Flexible availability (shift work, weekends, public holidays, sleepovers)
• Confident using Microsoft Word and Outlook
• Current Australian Driver’s Licence

• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Resilient, adaptable, and confident supporting people from diverse backgrounds
• Able to prioritise and problem-solve under pressure
• Flexible availability (shift work, weekends, public holidays, sleepovers)
• Confident using Microsoft Word and Outlook
• Current Australian Driver’s Licence