Join Our Team!

Who we are?

Valued Lives is a values-driven, peer-led community organisation enabling people to live valued lives in local communities.

Our Board’s membership is made from individuals and families who either use our supports and services or support our vision and values.

With a strong commitment to promoting social inclusion and empowering people to have real choice, real control and a genuine voice in the design, planning and delivery of their own supports and services, Valued Lives, established in 2013, continues to grow and develop.

What we look for in Valued Lives’ team members

We welcome your individuality, your ideas, your passion and your drive. Valued Lives is people focused and our flexible approach will help you to succeed in a rewarding career.

Valued Lives is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and firmly believe varied viewpoints and experiences strengthen our organisation. Being a peer-led organisation, we encourage people with disability or lived experience to join us.

When you work with the Valued Lives team, you become part of a much bigger picture. Whatever role you play, you will have the opportunity to really make a difference for the individuals we support and their families.

We look for candidates with the right skills, knowledge and experience required for the job. We also look for candidates that show how their motivation fits our philosophy, purpose and values. While skills, knowledge and experience matter, we often go beyond this – values are key!

Become a Support Worker and/or Business Assistant at Valued Lives

Being a Support Worker

You will provide individualised supports within an individual’s home and community. This may include supporting someone with personal care, support to attend appointments and participate in community or work-based activities. The ultimate aim is providing the individual with the right supports to enable them to live at home and in their community as independently as possible.

Being a Business Assistant

You will provide individual Innovative Employment business owners assistance with a range of skills that ultimately work to facilitate increased capacity and community connection in line with their passions and goals for their Innovative Employment. This can be through developing a schedule of activities and events, assistance with social media and technology, in-person or online sales, customer engagement and product creation or service delivery.

Both Support workers and Business Assistants also work with individuals to build confidence, connections and friendships and become active within their local community.

Ultimately, you will provide person-centered support to help people to live their own life and achieve their goals, dreams and aspirations.

We will also provide you with induction and orientation along with ongoing training.

As a Support Worker, shifts will depend on the individual you are supporting. They may include daytime and night-time shifts, weekdays and weekends or sleepovers. We work together to find a placement which works around your availability. We also offer terrific rates!

As a Business Assistant we accept applications on a rolling basis, based on your suitability and skillset. When submitting your application please highlight skills you have that you think would be useful in this role and we will try to match you with a suitable Innovative Employment business owner currently seeking support.

If Valued Lives sounds like it is an organisation you’d like to work with – please click on the link below and submit your application now. Our team will review your application and be in touch soon

Become a Support Coordinator at Valued Lives

It can be overwhelming having an NDIS plan and having a choice is important in making sure people get the support they need, how and when they need it. The reality of coordinating supports effectively can be quite complex and support coordination is designed to minimise the complexity of negotiating with service providers, government agencies and mainstream services.

Our Support Coordination service is delivered by experienced and highly skilled Support Coordinators, many who have a family member with an NDIS plan. Our service is based on developing a strong relationship with the people we help, to assist them in strengthening their ability to coordinate and choose the supports they need to participate fully in life and their community.

Being a Support Coordinator

You will have experience and expertise in planning and support coordination, a thorough understanding of the NDIS along with the ability to engage, build and maintain healthy, trusting relationships with the people you are supporting. You are proactive and motivated with a desire to build capacity and ensure the best outcomes for the people you are helping.

If joining a team of passionate and supportive Support Coordination professionals, dedicated to their field resonates with you, please click on the link below and submit your application now. Our team will review your application and be in touch soon.

Become a Network Advisor at Valued Lives

Our Network Advisors work with individuals and their families to implement their NDIS funded supports and services in the way they choose. These services are provided to the people we support in their home and community, helping them to live as independently as possible.

Being a Network Advisor

You can deliver creative supports to individuals and are familiar with the NDIS. You work well in what can, at times, be a demanding, changing environment and can successfully coordinate a team.

Working alongside the Network Manager you will deliver high-quality support to assist people with implementation of their NDIS plans using a creative and individualised approach, as well as sourcing appropriate mentors to work with individuals to reach their goals. You also have the ability to build on informal supports, resolve points of crisis and capacity build the people you support within their own network and community.

If joining a team of professional, passionate and supportive Network Advisors, dedicated to their field, resonates with you, please click on the link below and submit your application now. Our team will review your application and be in touch soon.

How to Apply

We are a values-based organisation. One of the most important things for the people we support is your personality and where your values fit. There are all kinds of Support Coordinators with different skills and experience and individuals can be supported in a variety of different ways.

You must respect that it is the individual’s life, assist them to achieve their goals, be able to work together with the person you’re supporting and with the people in that person’s life, support and promote self-direction, choice and control, keep supports personal, be respectful of others’ beliefs, be flexible to life changes and encourage community connection.

Further skills and experience required will depend on the individual that is to be supported.

We look for unique individuals who:

• Have a demonstrated ability to work with people and network
• Have an ability to work within a team and be creative
• Have good written and verbal communication skills
• Have impeccable integrity and work ethics
• Have the ability to think outside the box

If you require further information regarding our recruitment process, please contact hr@valuedlives.org.au.

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