Community Gardener - Disability Sector (Belmore)

Are you passionate about gardening and want to use your skills to support people with disabilities? Join our Gardening Team, where you’ll not only maintain beautiful outdoor spaces but also mentor and empower people with disabilities to develop their social and lifestyle skills.

**About the Role**
- Reporting to the Senior Social Facilitator, the Crew Coordinator plays a hands-on role in:

- Supervising and mentoring Supported Employees in gardening and landscaping tasks
- Providing one-on-one training to help individuals achieve personal goals
- Assisting with case notes and goal setting to track employee progress
- Maintaining outdoor spaces across private yards and public facilities, such as schools

**What We’re Looking For**

To be successful in this role, you’ll need:

- Gardening or landscaping experience
- from private gardens to larger facilities
- Great communication skills to positively support and mentor team members
- A proactive and reliable attitude with a passion for making a difference
- A current driver’s licence with the ability to travel across Sydney
- A current First Aid Certificate (or willingness to obtain)
- Willingness to undergo required checks, including NDIS Worker Check, Working with Children Check, and a National Police Check

**Why Join Us?**
- **Skilled Growth**: Tailored professional development opportunities to support your career ambitions, including financial assistance for external education, NDIS training
- **Tax Savings**: Maximise your income with generous salary packaging, reducing your tax and increasing your take-home pay
- **Generous Leave**: Above-award annual and personal/carers leave, extended parental leave, celebration day
- **Supportive Team**: Join a friendly and supportive team that values your contributions
- **Wellbeing**: Free access to a premium mindfulness app, EAP counselling, yearly flu vaccinations, and a variety of wellbeing activities to make your workday more enjoyable

If you’re ready to grow your career while making a real difference, we’d love to hear from you! Submit your resume and cover letter addressing the selection criteria. Applications close**: 18th May 2025** (Interviews will commence immediately, so don’t wait to apply!)

People are at the core of everything we do: from supporting and enhancing the wellbeing of our clients to the nurturing and development of our staff and their career aspirations.

CatholicCare Sydney is a leading not-for-profit and the social services agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, supporting people from all walks of life. We’re an organisation that promotes diversity and inclusion and commits to the growth and wellbeing of our staff, empowering them to make a positive change to the community.
- At CatholicCare, we believe vaccination to be the best way to keep our people and our communities safe from Covid-19. We require all employees, volunteers and students to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as a condition of engagement._
- CatholicCare requires the preferred applicant to undertake a National Criminal History Record Check prior to employment, and for this role a Working with Children Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check is required._ Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3rapic