Disability Support Worker – High Intensity & Paediatric

Care | Logan QLD

Summary Points

- Work with children needing complex clinical support
- Paid participant-specific training led by our RNs
- Consistent rosters across Logan and surrounds

About the role We're looking for experienced Disability Support Workers to join our team in Logan, supporting children with complex, high intensity care needs. This isn't entry-level work. The children you'll support rely on skilled hands and calm judgement every shift, whether that's managing a ventilator overnight, responding to a seizure, or making sure a hoist transfer is safe and dignified.

You'll never be thrown in cold. Before you start with any participant, you'll complete participant-specific training and competency assessment developed and delivered by our Registered Nurses, in line with the NDIS High Intensity Support Skills Descriptors.

Key responsibilities

- Deliver high intensity supports in line with each participant's Complex Care Plan, including oxygen and non-invasive ventilation management
- Manage airway and secretion management, including suctioning
- Provide NGT feeding and enteral nutrition support
- Carry out epilepsy and seizure monitoring and response
- Provide safe hoist transfers and complex manual handling
- Carry out pressure care and repositioning as per care plans
- Support personal care, continence care, and medication assistance
- Monitor participants and escalate any changes or concerns to the nursing team promptly
- Keep accurate,



timely records of care delivered
- Support each child to participate in family life and their community

About you

- Blue Card (Working with Children Check – QLD)
- NDIS Worker Screening Clearance (Yellow Card)
- Current First Aid and CPR certificates
- Certificate III in Individual Support (or equivalent) - desirable
- Demonstrated experience delivering high intensity supports, ideally with children
- Confidence with clinical tasks such as suctioning, NGT feeding, and ventilation support (or willingness to complete RN-led competency training)
- Sound judgement, knowing when to act, when to escalate, and how to stay calm under pressure
- Genuine respect for participant dignity, choice, and family involvement
- Reliability and consistency
- Current driver's licence and reliable vehicle

Benefits

- Competitive hourly rates
- Adaptable rostering
- Participant specific training delivered by Registered Nurses before you commence with each participant, with annual competency reassessment
- Real clinical support: RN oversight on every complex participant, with clear escalation pathways
- Consistent participant allocation with small, stable teams around each child

About us We're a nurse-led NDIS provider supporting participants across Logan, Ipswich, and Brisbane. Our whole model is built on doing complex care properly with trained workers, and supports that focus on what the participant actually wants and needs.

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