AddressDo you enjoy working with a great team in a community services environment linking people with disability supports they need on a day-to-day basis?
Join our growing Support Coordination team. This casual role (3-4 days per week) provides Support Coordination services to our participants in Moruya. The successful candidate must be able to travel to our Moruya office on a regular basis. However, this role may provide a weekly hybrid Work from Home opportunity, after a period of time.
This is an exciting opportunity to utilise your existing Support Coordination skills to move into a growing sector with career progression, financial rewards and a work life balance.
About us
Yumaro is a multi-award winning not for profit located on the south coast of NSW. There are opportunties to work in our Moruya office. Yumaro operates several social enterprises providing employment opportunities in a supported way. We provide NDIS services including home and community supports, capacity building supports, accommodation, social programs, support coordination and plan management services to over 220 people living with a disability.
About the role
We are searching for a seasoned Support Coordinator with a track record in comparable roles or related sectors. This role is available as a result of fast growing service demand and aims to coordinate and connect participants to supports and build their capacity to stay engaged with their support networks - this varied and busy role:
- Engages with participants and their informal support networks and builds connections with providers, local community services and NDIS contacts
- Supports participants to understand their NDIS plan and plan funding
- Supports participants to design their support framework within available plan funds to their achieve goals and including coordinating the participants plan budget
- Coordinates participants to connect and engage with providers, to access supports, and builds participant capacity to maintain these relationships
- Gathers and prepares evidence for the participant for plan reviews
- Develops/has a research based approach for understanding the NDIS and sourcing available supports
- Perform all underlying administrative tasks related to support coordination service provision including budgets
- If you have an interest in Psychosocial Recovery Coaching we would also be interested in hearing from you
Skills and experience
- Prior experience as a Support Coordinator or in a similar role is preferred (but not essential)
- Relationship building - working with a diverse range of people, their families or carers, and a network of support providers and community services
- Able to coordinate service expectations and professional boundaries
- Strong communication skills including listening
- Able to research, interpret and apply NDIS and service concepts to design and implement effective solutions for participants within plan funding
- Able to coordinate, organise and track activities/bookings/tasks
- Able to prioritize to achieve multiple and often competing deadlines
- Strong administration skills including basic budgeting
- Experience in NDIS, COS or similar role is desirable
- Experience in using Microsoft Office suite of products
- Experience in mental health would be well regarded
If you have prior experience and would like to join our team working in the disability sector, please apply via Seek with your resume and a covering letter.
If you have any questions or would like a role description, please email **************@yumaro.com.au
