Regina Maritim
Point Cook,VIC
Summary
Caring Disability Support Worker skilled at working with individuals living with disability issues. Versed in daily living support, meal preparation, and mobility assistance. Offers excellent interpersonal and communication skills developed through field experience.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Disability Support Worker
Gateways Support Services
02.2024 - Current
- Provided assistance in daily living activities by dressing, grooming, bathing, and toileting patients.
- Drove clients safely to social activities and appointments.
- Developed strong interpersonal relationships with clients, earning their trust and respect through consistent empathy and understanding.
- Supported clients in maintaining a clean living space by assisting with household tasks such as laundry, meal preparation, and general tidying.
- Enhanced quality of life for clients with physical and intellectual disabilities through compassionate care and assistance.
Disability Support Worker
Annecto Inc.
02.2022 - 01.2024
- The roles included supporting clients in the following areas: Providing support to clients that have a range of physical and intellectual disabilities while ensuring person-centered approaches and active support
- Assisting clients with their day-to-day lives through meal preparation, medication administration and manual handling, cleaning, laundry, and other domestic work
- Supporting participants to attend community access
- Liaising with other professional organizations and families to ensure clients are taken care of
- Ensuring that clients well-being and safety is prioritized in all aspects of their lives
- Advocating for the rights of people with disabilities
- Ensure proper supervision of movement and documentation of participants
- Provide first aid treatment as necessary
- Providing companionship to participants.
- Provided assistance in daily living activities by dressing, grooming, bathing, and toileting patients.
Support Worker
Oncall Group Australia
12.2020 - 01.2022
- The role included supporting clients with personal care, mealtime assistance, development of general living skills like cleaning, laundry, cooking and gardening duties, behavioral and emotional techniques, assisting them to access community and recreation programs, general supervision and general administration tasks, development of their social living skills, administering of medication.
Disability Support Worker/Student Placement
Jigsaw Blue Disability Services
03.2021 - 08.2021
- Keeping up to date records on patients, including daily observations about activities and any medication administered
- Helping residents on health matters and personal habits to do with hygiene and diet
- Helping to organize and participate in recreational activities
- Helping in serving meals, drinks and refreshments and feeding residents requiring feed-assist
- Assisting clients maintain personal hygiene by bathing, and dressing
- Supporting lead support workers in administering medication
- Participating in appropriate training activities and courses
- Ensuring safe and proper lifting and transferring of residents with physical or learning difficulties by assisting them with their mobility aids
- Talking to residents and listening sympathetically to their problems
- Helping to create stimulating and homely environment by good room organization and bed making
- Making beds and changing linen and ensuring that rooms are clean and tidy
- Use appropriate infection control procedures to maintain a clean and safe working area
- Providing support to relatives and friends
- Maintaining records of residents/clients and their needs
- Helping residents/clients with their toileting needs, including continence promotion
- Checking and changing of continence aids.
Support Worker
Scope Australia
05.2019 - 08.2020
- Disability Support work
- Assisting clients to maintain the home environment which included completing and helping with tasks if the person is unable to complete
- Assisted clients with matters of personal hygiene like showering, toileting, dressing, and manual handling tasks such hoisting, use of wheelchairs and walking frames
- Performed a range of activities from housekeeping and help clients develop their level of ability in all aspects of their daily life
- Provided First Aid when needed to clients
- Provided the best possible service with the available resources
- Transported clients to community-based activities when required
- Supported clients with medical administration
- Adhered to all plans developed to provide support for healthcare, communication, mealtime, and any areas that require specific support
- Plans
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Diploma in Community Services
Hammond Institute
Melbourne, VICSome College (No Degree) - Certificate IV in Disability
Genu Institute
Melbourne, VICSome College (No Degree) - Certificate in Education Support
Monash University
Melbourne, VICSkills
- Daily living assistance
- Housekeeping and meal preparation
- Personal Care
- Independent Living Support
- Disability Awareness
- Documentation skills
- Documentation And Reporting
- Client Confidentiality
- Incident Reports
- Relationship Building
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Disability Support Worker
Gateways Support Services
02.2024 - Current
Disability Support Worker
Annecto Inc.
02.2022 - 01.2024
Disability Support Worker/Student Placement
Jigsaw Blue Disability Services
03.2021 - 08.2021
Support Worker
Oncall Group Australia
12.2020 - 01.2022
Support Worker
Scope Australia
05.2019 - 08.2020
Some College (No Degree) - Diploma in Community Services
Hammond Institute
Some College (No Degree) - Certificate IV in Disability
Genu Institute
Some College (No Degree) - Certificate in Education Support
Monash University
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