Disability Support Worker – Rehabilitation-Focused | West Ipswich | Mid-30s Male NDIS Client
Based in West Ipswich
Morning, Day, Evening, Overnight | Regular & Casual Shifts
$31-43/hour standard payrate + penalty rates + super | Payrate dependant on skills, qualification, experience | Flexibility + Stability

Are you calm, consistent and deeply reliable? Do you value psychology, neuroscience, spirituality, and real human connection? Are you capable of providing physical support while holding space for someone navigating a complex recovery? We're looking for support workers to join a high-trust team assisting a mid-30s male participant living with partial tetraplegia and psychosocial disability. This role is equal parts physical care, emotional support, and intellectual companionship, all in the context of long-term rehabilitation.

About the Role:

You’ll be supporting the participant with:

Complex rehabilitation focused manual handling and transfers (Sara Stedy, wheelchair, commode)

Mealtime and nutrition support (rehabilitation focused nutrition, dysphagia diet, aspiration risk)

Medication prompts and disability-related health tasks

Active listening, gentle reassurance during night terrors, PTSD episodes

Community access for medical, academic, or social appointments

Business-related admin (help printing, scanning, sorting, minor tech tasks)

Who This Is For:

This is a unique role. We’re seeking someone emotionally intelligent, practical, and grounded. Someone who thrives in calm, quiet spaces and genuinely respects spirituality and recovery as a way of life. The client is a published health researcher in the field of psychedelic medicine, and a neurodivergent professional. He is currently working on his physical rehabilitation, postgraduate studies, and multiple projects. His worldview is shaped by:

Philosophy, theology, and sociology

Neuroscience, psychiatry, pharmacology, and integrative health

Trauma theory and systems reform

You don’t need to have a degree, but these interests must resonate deeply with you. The client enjoys deep conversation, quiet company, and support that honours autonomy, vulnerability and dignity.

Spiritual Practice and Lifestyle:

The client is highly spiritual (not religious) and uses meditation, yoga, breathwork, and somatic awareness as core daily tools in healing from trauma, chronic pain, and nervous system dysregulation. Support workers must be comfortable in a space that includes:

Silence and breath-based co-regulation

Respect for mood fluctuations, sensory sensitivities, and boundaries

Strong routines around sleep hygiene, nutrition, and mental health

This is not just care, it’s shared presence in a healing process.

Role and Tasks:

Domestic duties: laundry, cleaning, yard maintenance, washing

ADLs: showering, toileting, meal preparation

Rehabilitation: exercise, physical handling

Employment assistance: printing, scanning, organising, typing

Assistance dog: walking, playing with dog, caring needs (feeding, medication, vet visits)

Prompting client, organising appointments, house, medication, life

Psychosocial support: companionship and recreation

Shift Structure:

Mornings: 6am–10am (start of day, meds, breakfast, morning care)

Days: 10am–2/6pm (work, rehabilitation, errands, meal prep, social supports)

Evenings: 2/6pm–10pm (manual handling, dinner, night routine, psychosocial/companionship support)

Overnights: 10pm–6am (inactive with active components, PTSD/night needs)

Regular and casual shifts available. You’ll be rostered fairly and treated with respect.

Must Have:

Manual handling confidence (training provided if needed)

First Aid + CPR

NDIS Worker Screening (or ability to get one quickly)

Very good English

Bonus if you:

Have an interest or background in allied health, mental health, or yoga

Are neurodivergent-affirming, trauma-informed, and spiritually respectful

Have supported others with PTSD or a brain injury

Are confident handling assistive tech (wheelchairs, CPAP, low-level AT)

Love dogs — a trained psychiatric assistance dog is part of the household

Apply Now:

If this speaks to you, we’d love to hear from you. Please respond with a cover letter:

With a little about yourself and why this role resonates

Your availability and relevant experience

• • Any questions you have