Job Description
Support Worker - Cessnock Community Supports - Casual and Part Time
Challenge Community Services – Cessnock NSW
As a Support Worker, you'll empower people with disabilities to build confidence, skills, and independence through meaningful activities, in-home support, and high-quality care.
From cooking, music, and crafts to community outings and leisure sports, you'll help create positive, enriching experiences every day.
You'll also bring experience inHigh Intensity Supports, includingCatheter Care and Enteral Feeding, to support clients with complex needs.
Some shifts may include afternoons, evenings, and sleepovers.
SCHAD's Award Level 2Pay rates from$*****- $***** (base rate) or $***** - $***** (casual rate)
Fitness Passport access for you and your family (eligibility criteria applies)
Real job satisfaction—make a difference every day
Safety and Wellbeing support via Sonder
Duties:
Support clients with daily living and medical needs where required
Encourage independence and skill-building through activities such as cooking, crafts, music, sports, and reading
Provide in-home and community-based support tailored to individual goals
Build positive, respectful relationships with clients and their families
Handle challenges with empathy, patience, and problem-solving skills
Ability to actively support participants in a range of activities, including outdoor activities and swimming, with craft skills such as sewing and knitting highly regarded to align with current Community Supports activities.
Skills and Experience:




Strong communication and relationship-building skills
Resilient, adaptable, and confident supporting people from diverse backgrounds
Able to prioritise and problem-solve under pressure
Versatile availability (shift work, weekends, public holidays, sleepovers)
Confident using Microsoft Word and Outlook
Current Australian Driver's Licence, Working With Children Check, and NSW NDIS Worker Screening Check
Able to pass a National Criminal History Check
Experience supporting high-needs disability clients
Access to a personal vehicle for work use, if required
Certificate III or IV in Disability Support (or equivalent, desirable)
Understanding of NDIA processes (desirable)
Handy craft skills such as sewing, knitting, or crocheting (desirable)
About Us:
Since ****, Challenge Community Services has been supporting people, strengthening communities and creating opportunities across regional New South Wales and South East Queensland.
We provide disability services, foster care, allied health and social enterprise opportunities that empower people to live their best lives.
Our work is driven by a simple belief: everyone deserves the opportunity to belong, grow and thrive.
Every role at Challenge Community Services contributes to making a meaningful difference in the lives of the people and communities we support.
Confidential enquiries can be made by contacting Kathryn Brown
Closing Date - 9th October ****
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we work and live, and pay my respects to their elders past and present.

📌 Support Worker - Cessnock Community Supports - Casual And Part Time (New South Wales)
🏢 Challenge Community Services
📍 New South Wales