Disability Support Worker Required in Ellenbrook – Weekends Initially

SUPPORT WORKER WANTED | ELLENBROOK | WEEKENDS

Tuley is looking for a warm, reliable and proactive Support Worker to support a woman in her early 30s who lives in her own home in Ellenbrook.

She enjoys reading, shopping, spending time with family and getting out into the community. We are looking for someone who will take the time to build a genuine, trusting working relationship with her while supporting her to develop greater confidence and independence.

This isn’t a role where we are looking for someone to simply “do things for” the participant. The right person will understand how to work alongside her, providing encouragement and appropriate prompting while building her capacity and independence.

What will the role involve?

Support may include:

• Community access, including shopping, outings and visiting family
• Encouragement and gentle prompting with daily routines and household tasks
• Supporting meal planning and preparation
• Helping the participant plan, organise and initiate activities
• Breaking activities into clear, manageable steps
• Encouraging social and community participation
• Supporting the participant to make her own choices and build confidence
• Observing and communicating what strategies are helping, and where the participant may need a different approach

The participant can experience difficulties with executive functioning, planning, task initiation, communication and navigating unfamiliar situations, as well as anxiety and sensory sensitivities. She benefits from calm, patient support, clear communication, repetition where needed and encouragement that doesn’t feel rushed or overwhelming.

Who would be a great match?

We’d particularly love to hear from Support Workers who are:

• Warm, patient and emotionally steady
• Proactive without being overbearing
• Comfortable using gentle prompting and encouragement
• Able to recognise when someone may be struggling, even when they don’t immediately ask for help
• Using workplace technology such as mobile apps and Microsoft Teams for communication and information sharing.
• Confident supporting community access and everyday living skills
• Respectful of sensory needs and able to adapt when an environment becomes overwhelming
• Able to build rapport gradually and consistently
• Focused on capacity building rather than creating dependence
• Current NDIS Worker Clearance.
• Minimum 1 year of experience in a support worker or personal care role.
• Reliable, professional and committed to maintaining appropriate boundaries

Experience supporting people with Autism, anxiety, psychosocial disability, ADHD and/or executive-functioning difficulties would be highly regarded.

Communication, documentation & teamwork

Being part of Tuley means working as one team around the participant. Strong communication and documentation skills are therefore essential.

Successful applicants must be confident and proficient in:

• Completing clear, accurate and meaningful daily handover reports
• Recognising, documenting and escalating incidents appropriately, including completing incident reports
• Using workplace technology such as Microsoft Teams for communication and information sharing
• Communicating relevant observations, changes and concerns promptly
• Following support plans, organisational procedures and reporting requirements
• Sharing meaningful information with the broader team about what is working, what isn’t working and where support strategies may need to be reviewed

Good documentation isn’t simply an administrative requirement. It helps the team provide consistent support, identify patterns and changes over time, monitor the effectiveness of support strategies and maintain appropriate safeguarding and compliance.

We are therefore looking for someone who understands that if something important happens during a shift, the wider team needs an accurate picture of it.

Availability

📅 Saturdays and Sundays initially  📆 Potential for weekday supports in the future

A driver’s licence and reliable vehicle are required given the community-access component of the role.

Most importantly…

We’re looking for the right match, not simply someone to fill a shift.

This participant is working towards greater independence, confidence with everyday living and increased social and community participation. Her FCA identifies ongoing support needs around daily living skills, planning and problem-solving, community access, shopping, meal preparation and social participation.

If you’re patient, encouraging, dependable and proactive, understand how to support someone without taking over, and recognise the importance of communication and high-quality documentation as part of good disability support, we’d love to hear from you.

Interested?  Please send us your resume, along with some information about you and why you consider yourself a good fit for this role.