Disabilities Service Officer (incl Disability Support Worker, NDIS Support Coordinator)
411712 · Sedentary Next-day readySupport workers help and support disabled, ill, injured or elderly people with basic activities like eating, personal hygiene and household tasks.
Description
Works in a range of service units which provide education and community access to people with intellectual, physical, social and emotional disabilities.
Typical work tasks
Supports families and provides education and care for disabled persons in adult service units, group housing and government institutions; assesses clients' needs and plans, develops and implements educational, training and support programs; interviews clients and assesses the nature and extent of difficulties; monitors and reports on the progress of clients.
Typical work environment
- Works indoors in service units connected to health, educational and governmental facilities.
- Frequently works away from the office, out in the community.
- Usually works in adequately heated and ventilated offices as a base, but may work in a variety of community environments.
Typical physical and mental demands
- Sedentary physical demand level.
- Frequently sits when meeting with clients and their families and when completing reports or case notes.
- Stretching up and reaching across is not a significant component of this role.
- Bending squatting, crouching and kneeling is not a significant requirement of the role.
- Twisting of the body or neck is not a significant component of this role.
- Contact with skin irritants or water is not required.
- Lifting, carrying and holding is unlikely to exceed the sedentary range.
- Repetitive movement of the hands is likely occasionally to facilitate the use of a computer.
- Driving is likely to be occasionally to frequently required.
- Use of hand-held objects/materials will include computers, diaries and other record-keeping and office equipment.
- Mental skills necessary include assessment, computing, communication, decision-making, report writing, good communication skills with cultural sensitivity and knowledge.
Enter via experience or on-the-job training; no mandatory pre-entry qualification. Flagged next-day ready.
Unverified — this label is model-generated and not yet clinician-reviewed. Confirm against the WTDS before relying on it.
How this was determined (model-generated): Disability Support Worker; ER explicitly 'OJT may be all that is necessary' + experience substitution, no legal gate. Clearest experience_or_training case. Correct.
Entry Requirements
A New Zealand Register Level 5 or 6 qualification or at least three years relevant experience (ANZSCO Skill Level 2). In some instances particular experience and/or on-the-job training may be required. For entry-level positions on-the-job training may be all that is necessary.
Further Comments
There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.