Support Worker Jobs

Become a Support Worker with Avas Support

Our support workers support, enable and empower people with disabilities and their families to live according to their needs, goals and capabilities.

Apply for one of our support worker jobs to be part of our amazing team today!

To submit your resume please click the button below and fill out your application in full to be considered.

Why work with Avas Support?

We value what's important

We serve a person, not a need

The need is important and helps define the care, but you are more important – you are not your disability – and our focus is finding the best for you through participant-centred, customised, quality care. We believe everyone deserves to live an abundant life, empowered to be all that they can be.

We support community

We are passionate about community transformation and get involved in the community wherever we open a new branch of our business. We believe our nation will be different tomorrow because of the way we do business in local communities today. We operate with integrity and choose sustainable business practices so that we are successful and able to invest in our future and in yours.

We keep the safety in and kick the boring out!

We believe in thinking outside the box and colouring outside the lines. We don’t follow the way it’s always been done. While we keep things safe and provide good governance, we also try new things. We experiment. We push the boundaries of what people thought possible. And most importantly, we have fun doing it! The people we serve every day are full of colour – we don’t believe in limits or lines!

We are a great place to work and value our staff

We invest in them, train them, celebrate them and reward them for their effort. Our support workers are the best of who we are and provide quality care that makes a meaningful difference. Our disability support worker jobs are not just jobs — they are rewarding and fulfilling careers that allow you to make a real difference in people’s lives.

We support you, our support workers

We operate with integrity and choose sustainable business practices so that we are successful and able to invest in our future and in yours.

We are passionate about taking care of our support workers and will always provide support to you; as it is through you that we are able to help people the most. This comes in many forms, depending on your individual support requirements, including providing in house training and/or external training, complex care support, helping you to follow health support plans, incident response support, and training in working with children. We provide training and accreditation for all of the necessary areas needed to be successful in the role and thrive in your support worker job and will guide you in established support work practices to assist participants in the best way possible.

We provide encouragement and support to all of our support workers. We will help you to develop new skills and achieve your future goals through career development. As we are participant focused and care deeply about the people we provide support to, we know that helping you is the best way to support participants and others that need our help to get the best out of life.

The role

About our support worker jobs

The role of a support worker is a rewarding one, where you are able to make a real difference in the lives of others. You will provide culturally sensitive assistance, support and care, in line with health support plans, mental health support plans, and other support plans for the individuals in your care. The support provided in your role makes a huge difference to the people we work with.

Community access support

Your job as a support worker will include assisting participants to access the community for events, classes, shops, facilities and other community orientated activities.

Independent living skills

We provide assistance with independent living skills and other life skills. We allow opportunities for participants to exercise and learn independent living skills within our care and support programs, and this will become a core part of your new job role.

Transport

We help our participants to get to the places they need to go, to be part of a community, receive essential services, health care and other important elements of daily life. Your support worker role will see you support participants to and from appointments with transport assistance.

Domestic assistance

Your role as a support worker with Avas Support will also see you assist the participant with duties such as cooking, cleaning and the maintenance of their home, to help them with the day to day domestic elements of living in their home or residence

Personal Care

Your job will involve assisting our participants with carrying out personal care tasks, to ensure participants have daily personal hygiene and care.

About you

What it takes to become a Disability support worker

Your core skills:

You’ll be a positive person with the ability to represent the values of Avas Support. With respect for diverse needs, values, cultures, and beliefs, you’ll carry empathy for people with disabilities. Your communication skills will be excellent, written, verbal, and non-verbal, and you’ll have good listening skills. You will be required to maintain current qualifications.

Work effectively within a team
Be aware of individual's support plans — interests, limitations, and capabilities
Maintain professional boundaries
Apply workplace health and safety standards
Follow policies and procedures
Follow code of conduct

Additional skills and knowledge:

As a support worker in our team, you’ll have the ability to respond to change, to manage conflict to achieve a positive result, and have specific skills that relate to our participants’ needs. Additional training, such as a Certificate 3 in Disability Support, diversion and distraction techniques, and mental health training would be a bonus.

Disability & Medical specific training (E.g. Diabetes training & working with autism)
Behaviour support plan training
Hoist training
Medication administration training
Certificates relative to the disability services

Qualifications & Verifications

First AID & CPR
Current Car Insurance
Current Vehicle Registration
Valid Driver’s License
Working with Children’s check
Willing to do Cert III Disability
Clean National Police check essential

Support worker training and accreditation

Need experience? We offer training and accreditation to help our people become experienced disability support workers

While we welcome those who have extensive experience and qualifications, we are passionate about helping you to develop and offer all the necessary training and accreditation needed to be successful in your role as a Disability support worker. Our support services make a real difference in people’s lives and we do everything we can to support you to support the people in our care. Whether you have significant experience, little experience, or no experience in disability support, or experience in related areas such as aged care and previous experience assisting a friend or relative, we can guide and equip you in your journey to succeeding in — and loving — your support worker career.

About Avas Support

Avas Support Pty Ltd. was established in July of 2019 in response to witnessing participants being mismatched with unsuitable support workers. This created a problem of unhappy participants’ needs not being met, goals not being achieved, and desires ignored.

We aim to solve this problem by hand picking caring individuals, providing them with quality training and matching them with participants where they can support them to meet their needs, achieve their goals and create a fulfilling life. With this custom approach we aim to be a service that represents quality and exudes integrity; delivering the service exactly how we claim to.

Our people are our heart and soul

"Working for Avas has been such a great experience."

"They put a lot of thought into the supports that you care for, making sure you have participants that match your personality to bring out the best in you and the people you care for. They care about your personal well being and want the best for you as an individual. It has been so fun working for Avas and I highly recommend working for them to anyone wanting to make a difference in people’s lives.”

"I love working for Avas Support."

"I feel so uplifted being apart of such an amazing team! All our employees are just incredible and caring and they all go above and beyond for all our beautiful Participants. I’m so glad I took the plunge and chose this as my career. Don’t second guess it….. just do it!"

"Being a support worker for Avas Support gives me purpose..."

"Being a support worker for Avas Support gives me purpose in my work and allows me to work with amazing people.”

Peter Bishop

Director, CEO

Debra Cole

Lead Facilitator

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