Female Only / Trauma Informed
The female-only requirement is in place to support the trauma-informed needs of this home — a genuine occupational qualification under s.27 NDIS Act and s.31 Sex Discrimination Act.
The Role
You find meaning in the everyday — a cup of tea, a walk, sitting alongside someone while they paint or garden. You're confident reading and following a support plan, applying your first aid training in real time, and bringing a mental-health-aware, trauma-informed approach when harder moments come. You promote independence as you go — knowing the home itself, and the rhythms that hold it, always need holding.
The home is a small co-living house in Chatswood — up to three residents. A wraparound team of coordinators, behaviour support practitioners and allied health sits around it, all reading from the same picture.
SCHADS Level 2 Pay Point 4
This is an experienced frontline support role, implementing established plans. The House Coordinator and clinicians are readily available. Progression to Level 3 may be available depending on qualifications and career aspirations.
About Coworth Life
Coworth Life is a community services and individual supports provider operating across metropolitan Sydney. Established in 2020, we work through a transdisciplinary model — the key support worker approach — spanning case management, capacity building, allied health and clinical support, positive behaviour support and direct individual support, shaped in partnership with participants, families and support teams.
What You'll Do
- Support residents to uphold the home's standards, and share the everyday — meals, walks, art, gardening, quiet creative time
- Provide personal care and daily living support, at each resident's pace
- Support each resident's choice and capability — work alongside their goals, step back as their independence grows
- Read and follow each support plan with skill; recognise behaviour as communication
- Apply your first aid training confidently when harder moments come, with a trauma-informed approach
- Coexist respectfully with an assistance animal on the support team
- Stay overnight on rostered sleepover shifts (own room provided; SCHADS sleepover allowance, plus an ex-gratia payment equivalent to 1-hour overtime if called to work during the sleep period)
- Keep electronic shift notes, logs and incident reports on a device before shift ends
Your Regular Roster
Casual pool, three openings. Shifts cover a 7-day pattern: day, evening and sleepover. Typical shift lengths 4–8 hours. Rosters posted 2 weeks ahead with 7 days' notice for changes (SCHADS Award). Typical workload 20–35 hours/week, depending on availability and shift mix. Sleepovers: own room, sleepover allowance, plus an ex-gratia payment equivalent to 1-hour overtime if called to work during the sleep period.
What You Need — Essential
- Right to work in Australia
- 1+ year of disability or community-services support experience, with trauma-informed practice as your operating frame
- Role classified at SCHADS Level 2 Pay Point 4; Level 3 may be available under special circumstances
- Behaviour support experience and comfort in a multidisciplinary team
- Female worker — genuine occupational requirement, s.31 Sex Discrimination Act + s.27 NDIS Act
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check Clearance
- Current First Aid + CPR — confident applying it in real time, including seizure response
- Current driver's licence and a reliable insured vehicle (comprehensive cover suitable for transporting residents)
- Available across evenings, weekends and sleepovers
- Confident using a phone or tablet for electronic shift notes, logs and incident reports
- Physically capable of safe personal care and manual handling
What You Need — Preferred
- Cert III or IV in Individual Support, Disability, Community Services or Mental Health
- Mental Health First Aid certification
- prior experience with episodic conditions — epilepsy, FND, dissociative or psychosocial presentations
- Lived experience of disability or psychosocial recovery
What We're Looking For
- Someone who:
- Follows support plans precisely and gives feedback when something needs to evolve
- Commits to behaviour support strategies; understands progress takes time
- Stays calm under pressure
- Keeps healthy professional boundaries — sustainable support
- Communicates clearly with family and the team
- Maintains consistency across every shift
- Shows initiative within scope — implements established plans, escalates when something falls outside them
What's In It For You
- ERO-uplifted casual pay above award minimum
- After-hours escalation always available — never alone with a hard moment
- Direct access to the wraparound team — answers from people who actually know the home
- Paid refresher training: participant specific, manual handling, MH crisis response, trauma-informed practice
- Career pathways into behaviour support, allied health assistance, coordination or training
- Predictable rosters — 2 weeks ahead with 7 days' notice for changes
- Real team backup when shifts get hard
Apply Now
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Job Type: Casual
Pay: $43.23 – $47.16 per hour
Benefits:
- Professional development assistance
Licence/Certification:
- First Aid Certification (Required)
- NDIS Worker Screening Check Clearance (Required)
- Driver Licence (Required)
Work Authorisation:
Work Location: In person
