Disability Support Worker – Dedicated 1:1 Team (Multiple Roles) | Burnie TAS

Advertiser: Azalea Care Location: Burnie & North West Coast, Tasmania Classification: Community Services & Development > Aged & Disability Support Work type: Part Time (permanent roster) and Casual Pay: SCHADS Award Level 2 Pay Point 1 + penalties, sleepover allowances & superannuation

Help build something from the ground up: a small, consistent team around one remarkable woman starting her new life on the North West Coast.

About the role

Azalea Care is recruiting a dedicated team of support workers for a participant relocating to Burnie in September 2026 to continue her university studies. She is a warm, gentle and highly intelligent woman in her late twenties. She is autistic with high support needs and co-occurring mental health conditions, and she thrives with a small, stable team of calm, attuned workers she knows and trusts.

Supports are 1:1 in the participant's own home and community — Variable hours over 7 days a week. That means genuine, reliable hours: morning and daytime blocks, evening shifts and sleepovers, across permanent part-time and casual arrangements. Because consistency is the most important thing we can offer, we are looking for people who want a long-term role with the same participant, week in, week out.

What a week looks like

- Supporting daily routines — gentle prompting with personal care, meals and medications

- Cooking and planning meals together, household tasks, laundry and shopping

- Driving the participant to appointments, university-related activities and community outings

- Sharing the things she loves — animals, art, archery, walks and the gym

- Providing calm emotional support and co-regulation when the world gets overwhelming

- Following her Positive Behaviour Support Plan and allied health strategies precisely

- Clear shift notes and warm handovers so the whole team stays consistent

- Inactive sleepover shifts — being a reassuring presence overnight

About you





- Experience supporting autistic adults and/or people with psychosocial disability

- Calm, patient and attuned — you notice small changes early and respond gently

- Reliable and consistent: you keep your shifts, because predictability matters here

- You give people full choice and control — you explain and support, you don't take over

- Trauma-informed in your practice, with strong professional boundaries and a warm style

- LGBTQIA+ affirming — inclusive, affirming and respectful practice is essential in this role

- Experience with Positive Behaviour Support Plans (highly regarded; full training provided)

- Comfortable working sleepover shifts and sole-worker shifts

Essential requirements

- NDIS Worker Screening Check (or willingness to obtain before commencement)

- Tasmanian Working with Vulnerable People registration

- Current First Aid and CPR certificates

- Current driver's licence and a reliable, comprehensively insured vehicle

- NDIS Worker Orientation Module ("Quality, Safety and You") completed

- Right to work in Australia and two contactable referees

Why join Azalea Care

- SCHADS-aligned pay with penalties, sleepover allowances and super

- Paid, thorough induction — including participant-specific behaviour support training before your first shift

- A stable, predictable roster and a genuinely long-term match with one participant

- Regular supervision, team debriefs and hands-on support from our coordinators and the behaviour support practitioner

- The chance to do person-centred support properly — one person, one team, done well

How to apply

Apply via SEEK with your resume and a short cover note telling us about your experience supporting autistic adults and why consistent, relational support work appeals to you. Shortlisting begins immediately. Meet-and-greets with the participant form part of the selection process — she chooses her team.

Participant details are shared with shortlisted applicants under confidentiality. Azalea Care is an equal chance employer; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and LGBTQIA+ applicants are warmly encouraged to apply.

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