Difficult work, done properly. The job asks you to stay calm and stay present when the person in front of you cannot. If that is you, read on.
Sample roles for a demonstration site — none of these vacancies is real.
Hold a caseload of eight to ten children in foster and kinship placements. Case plans, statutory visits, court reports, and the relationship with carers that makes the rest work.
Turn plans into supports that actually turn up. Provider wrangling, budget tracking, and getting participants ready for plan review before it arrives.
Personal care, domestic support, transport and the weekly check-in that keeps people living independently and out of hospital.
Intensive work in family homes at the point things are close to breaking. Several visits a week, a small caseload, and brokerage money you can actually authorise yourself.
Shift work in small homes with young people who have complex needs. Sleepovers and active nights, trauma-informed training provided before you start.
Run the carer lifecycle: enquiry, information sessions, assessment, authorisation, and the annual review that keeps the register current.
Recruitment pages tend to promise passion and impact. Here is the more useful version.
Fortnightly, with a clinician, and it does not get cancelled because the roster is short. That is the difference between staying five years and burning out in one.
Eight to ten in OOHC, six in preservation. When we exceed it we say so and we fix it, rather than calling it a busy period.
You will sit with people on the worst day of their lives. There is a debrief after every critical incident and an EAP that people actually use.
SCHADS award as the floor, not the target, with salary packaging available.
Casework is not a work-from-home job, but rosters, compressed weeks and school hours are all on the table.
Trauma-informed practice, cultural safety and the tickets your role needs, on work time.
Two weeks with a buddy, shadow shifts before solo shifts, and no caseload in week one.
Send a CV and tell us in a few paragraphs why this work, and what you would want from a supervisor. We will reply either way, within a week.
Every role requires a working with children check, and NDIS roles require worker screening. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we particularly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.