[Hiring] Support Worker @Skylight Mental Health Limited

Role Description

As a Skylight Support Worker, you will work alongside NDIS participants on their recovery journey as they work towards achieving their goals. Your role will be to support daily living tasks while building their capacity and independence as they connect with community, learn and explore to make space for new opportunities and to discover new potential.

• Support with barriers experienced in psychosocial wellbeing.
• Assist participants to appointments, group activities, and social outings.
• Help with food shopping and medication pickups.
• No personal care provided.

Covering the Limestone Coast region including Mount Gambier, Millicent, and Naracoorte, we are currently seeking Support Workers with the skills and experience to work with participants who have complex needs and capable of providing individualised support to participants.

Qualifications

• Engagement – Do you engage easily with others?
• Empathy – Is it natural for you to express empathy?
• Recovery – Do you understand what recovery from mental illness means?
• Relationships – Is building relationships easy for you?
• Motivation – Can you help people discover their own motivation?
• Emotional Intelligence – Is emotional intelligence important to you?
• Self-Reflection – Do you use self-reflection to challenge yourself?

Requirements

• Certificate III Individual Support (Home and Community) and/or knowledge and skills gained through work experience commensurate with community mental health service.
• Sound knowledge and awareness of mental illness (ideally psychosocial disability) and related comorbidities and the associated impact on individuals, carers, and the community.
• Flexible and open availability – minimum of 15 hours per week, able to pick up short notice supports if needed, willingness to travel to supports across the metro regions dependent on need.
• Smartphone with internet capabilities.
• Current SA Drivers Licence and willingness to use own vehicle.
• DHS Working With Children Check and NDIS Worker Check.

Benefits

• Competitive hourly and salary package options available.
• Flexible working hours to fit your lifestyle.
• A vibrant, supportive team culture focused on growth and innovation.

Company Description

Skylight offers a range of recovery-oriented community mental health services for people experiencing mental illness, family and friends who care for them, and the broader general South Australian community.