Cleaner - Ancillary Work

Position Title: Cleaner

Position Type: Ancillary Work

Location: Victor Harbor (with expected travel to other regions of the Fleurieu)

Employment Type: Casual

Pay Range/Award: SCHADS Award

Working Hours: On a fortnightly roster

Work Setting(s): Individual participant(s) home, Group home(s)

Empowering Connection is a dedicated NDIS provider, offering comprehensive support services to individuals with disabilities. We specialise in delivering personalised care and assistance, empowering our participants to achieve their goals and enhance their quality of life. Our services cover a wide range of needs, from daily living support to skill development and community engagement.

Position Purpose

The purpose of this position is to ensure a clean, safe, and hygienic living environment for participants in their homes. By maintaining high standards of cleanliness and sanitation, this role supports the overall well-being and comfort of participants, contributing to their health, independence, and quality of life.

Essential Requirements: NDIS Worker Screening Check (State-based), NDIS Worker Orientation Module, Current Driver's Licence, Working with Children's (WWC) check

Essential Skills or Experience: None.

Desirable Skills or Experience: Experience working with people with disability

Other Conditions: Flexible hours, Leave conditions, Superannuation, Training required / training opportunities, Driver's licence and use of the employee's own car.

Core Capabilities

The below core capabilities are requirements for any person working in Ancillary Work for the NDIS. Review them carefully. For more information about the capabilities, or to understand to a greater extent the behavioural indicators please visit the NDIS Workforce Capability Framework.

Participant Relationship:

  • Uphold participants' rights: Understand and respect the rights of the participant. Speak up and support the participant if those rights are not respected.

  • Communicate effectively: Support participants to express themselves and adjust your communication style to suit their needs and preferences.

  • Build trusted relationships: Develop and maintain professional relationships with the participants' and others present in their lives (friends, family, etc.), based on mutual trust and respect.

Your Impact:

  • Show self-awareness: Think about how your actions impact on the quality of support you provide, seek feedback, and keep improving your practice.

  • Work within your capabilities: Know your role and responsibilities, and when to seek support from others to develop your capabilities.

  • Look after yourself: Take care of yourself and manage your wellbeing.

Supporting Participants:

  • Understand what a good life means to the participant: Find out what a good life means to participants' without imposing your own assumptions..

Specialist Capabilities

For this role in particular, the below specialist capabilities are required.

Be responsive to participants' Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identity:

Understand and respond to participants' desired connection to culture, country and community. Be aware of your personal assumptions and biases, and adapt your approach based on what's important to participants', such as acknowledging the role participants' want their family and community to play in their life and decisions.

Be responsive to participants' culturally and linguistically diverse identity:

Understand and respond to participants' desired connection to their culture, community, and language. Be aware of your personal assumptions and biases, and adapt your approach based on what's important to participants', such as being sensitive about when/how to use interpreters and respecting cultural norms and practices.

Be responsive to participants' LGBTIQA+ identity:

Understand participants' rights, the importance and impact of inclusive language, and respond to participants' lived experience of sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression. Be aware of your personal assumptions and biases, and adapt your approach based on what's important to participants to foster a sense of belonging and participation.


Ready to Apply? To apply for the role of Disability Support Worker, complete our online application form and attach your resume and cover letter.