Disability Support Worker - Justice, Forensic & Behaviour Support

Disability Support Worker – Justice, Forensic & Behaviour Support

Location: Wynyard to Latrobe
Work Type: Casual | Shift Work (Days, Weekends, Sleepovers & Active Nights)

Leap Support Services is seeking experienced and resilient Disability Support Workers to provide high-level, person-centred support to individuals with complex needs, behaviours of concern, and clients engaged in community and justice services.

About the Role

You will provide person-centred support across community settings, homes, and justice-linked environments. This includes working with clients who may be:

• transitioning from custodial or forensic settings,
• on community-based orders,
• at risk of reoffending,
• or requiring structured routines, behavioural strategies, and high levels of supervision.

Your role is to promote safety, stability, independence, and positive life outcomes while ensuring all support is delivered with dignity and respect.

Key Responsibilities

Justice & Forensic Support

• Support clients with justice or correctional involvement, including adhering to behavioural plans, risk management strategies, and supervision requirements.
• Promote community participation while maintaining safety for clients, staff, and the public.
• Assist clients to meet the expectations of court orders, probation orders, or behaviour management plans (as applicable to disability support).
• Maintain professional boundaries and clear, factual documentation needed for justice-linked reporting.
• Work collaboratively with justice system partners, behaviour support practitioners, and allied health professionals.
• Support clients in developing emotional regulation, community safety skills, and positive decision-making.

Complex & Behaviour Support

• Provide assistance with daily living, personal care, manual handling, and medication (if endorsed).
• Implement behaviour support strategies and respond safely to behaviours of concern.
• Support clients to maintain routines, skill development, and independence.

General Responsibilities

• Build trust and rapport using calm, respectful, trauma-informed communication.
• Adapt quickly to changing environments and support needs.
• Work confidently in both independent and team-based settings.
• Maintain accurate progress notes, incident reports, and client documentation.

Essential Requirements

• Experience with complex support, behaviours of concern, and/or community/justice disability support.
• Ability to work shift work, including weekends, sleepovers, and active nights.
• Certificate III in Disability, Individual Support, or equivalent.
• Working with Vulnerable People Check & NDIS Worker Screening.
• Current First Aid & CPR.
• Completion of NDIS Worker Orientation Module.
• Valid driver’s licence and reliable vehicle.
• Medication endorsement.
• Behaviour support training or experience.