Job Description
Job Type: Permanent position | Casual position
Job Description
Care Compass Collective is a Queensland based NDIS provider delivering psychosocial and mental health focused disability support.
Our support is relationship led, psychology informed and shaped around each person's goals, needs and everyday life.
We deliver in-home support, community participation, mentoring, employment assistance, psychosocial recovery coaching and short-term respite across South East Queensland.
About the Role
The Disability Support Worker delivers day to day support that helps participants work towards their goals, build skills and confidence, and take part in their community and everyday life.
Our participants live with psychosocial and mental health related disability, so much of the work involves showing up consistently, reading a situation well, and adjusting the support to suit the day the person is having.
What You Will Do
Deliver person centred support in line with each participant's support plan, adjusting your approach to their preferences, communication style and capacity on the day
Support participants to build daily living skills, community access and social connection
Assist with everyday tasks such as meal preparation, household tasks, shopping, appointments and transport
Provide personal care where it forms part of a participant's plan, respecting their dignity, privacy and stated preferences
Apply trauma informed, recovery oriented and strengths based practice
Follow documented safeguards, risk assessments and behaviour support plans exactly as written
Write shift notes in plain, factual,



person first language, and report incidents and safeguarding concerns in line with our procedures
Complete a energetic risk check at the start of each shift, and stop or leave a shift where it is unsafe to continue
Who We Are Looking For
Reliable and consistent, because showing up as agreed is central to building trust with participants
Calm and steady, able to work alongside people experiencing distress without taking it personally
Respectful and non judgemental, meeting people where they are rather than where you think they should be
Willing to ask questions and escal
Open to feedback and interested in developing your practice
Open to feedback and interested in developing your practice
What You Need
Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willingness to obtain one
Current Working with Children Check (Blue Card) HLTAID011 Provide
First Aid and HLTAID009 Provide CPR Completion of the NDIS Worker Orientation Module, or willingness to complete it before commencing Current Australian driver's licence and access to a reliable, comprehensively insured and registered vehicle
Sound written communication skills for shift notes, incident reports and handover, and confident use of a smartphone app for rostering and documentation Current right to work in Australia WELL REGARDED
A Certificate III or IV in Individual Support, Disability, Community Services or Mental Health, or equivalent experience Previous experience supporting people with psychosocial or mental health related disability Mental Health
First Aid, or training in trauma informed practice or de-escalation

📌 Disability Support Worker (Queensland)
🏢 Care Compass Collective
📍 Queensland