Disability Mentor – Community Support Worker

Burke and Beyond

Melbourne VIC

Fulltime, part-time and casual roles available

Services across Dandenong, Box Hill, Ringwood and Balwyn.

Do you believe in improving lives through mentoring and skills development?

Are you looking for flexible workdays across the week?

Full-time shifts 8.00am-4.06pm, Part-time shifts 8.30am-3.30pm,Casual shifts within group settings can start at either 8:30 am or 9:30 am and finish between 2:30 and 3:30 pm.

Social support shifts are also available on Friday night 3.30 – 8.30 pm and on the weekends.

We are looking for dynamic, flexible, values based quick thinkers to join our team as a Casual Disability Mentor – Community Support Worker. To work across all of our locations, Dandenong, Balwyn, Box Hill, Ringwood.

This role is about supporting people with intellectual disabilities within small groups and one on one in the community to build and demonstrate a range of skills that will support them to live their best life.

Burke and Beyond is an organisation that is driven by core values including, supportive, progressive and accountable. We believe in improving lives through social interaction, personal development, and community participation.

We are committed to driving a high-performance culture and developing each individual in our team. Burke and Beyond is committed to a positive work culture based on being respectful and honest, leading by example, showing initiative, being invested, and going above and beyond.

When Burke and Beyond was first founded our core belief has always been to provide a space that fosters independence and opportunities.

What does a day in the life of a Disability Mentor- Community Support Worker look like?

As a mentor you will engage small groups of participants or individuals to provide ongoing opportunities for skill development, social interactions and community-based activities. Your role will include skill-based teaching, mentoring, feedback and collaboration. Your role is to provide empowering activities that guide people to develop skills and focus on their goals. You will need to think on your feet, and you will need to respond to the needs of the people you are working with by employing a range of knowledge and skills. The role is built on supporting people to achieve their goals and is very focused on increasing the skills that individual requires.

What we are looking for:

• A passion to see people reach their goals

• Ability to think on your feet

• A joy for sharing knowledge with others and building your own skills

• Ability to mentor and provide feedback

• A desire to support people to build their community-based networks.

Casual staff:

Experience working with people with Intellectual Disabilities in skill development.

• Availability to work short shifts of 2 hours plus

• Weekend and after-hours availability

• Ongoing availability to pick up a minimum of 2 shifts per week

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. You can find out all the requirements of the role by looking at the Position Description on our website.

While you are there take some time to look at what we do and view the short video that explains our service.