Vacancies
Join our team
If you have the skills, talent, and compassion to support service users within our communities, we warmly welcome you to join our team. At Cognithan, you will have the opportunity to:
• Provide one‑to‑one care, working directly with service users
• Practise to your full scope, supported by strong teamwork and ongoing professional development
• Support individuals living in the community and in their own homes, caring for people where they feel most comfortable
• Help people and their families live their best lives through high‑quality care, support, and compassion.
Our current opportunities span a broad spectrum of roles, catering to various career paths from frontline positions to management roles.
Current Vacancies
Support Worker
As a Support Worker, you will work collaboratively with service users with a complex mental health or learning disabilities diagnosis. The successful applicant would have demonstrated experience in the following:
• Supporting people with challenging behaviours including learning disabilities, mental health problems, epilepsy, etc
• Ability and willingness to provide personal care and support activities of daily living in a residential and supported living settings
• Supporting people with complex needs
• Assist with medical & welfare needs
• Maintain a safe and clean environment
• Strong Communication skills
• Satisfactory background checks
• Permanent and Bank roles available
Activity Assistant
Part-time shift available weekdays and Saturdays
As our Activity Assistant, you will play an active role in supporting our service users through a variety of hands-on activities from pottery and painting and needlework. You will help deliver engaging experiences while providing general support throughout the day.
Part-time shifts are available Monday to Saturday. Applicants must be available to work at least two weekdays plus one Saturday per fortnight.
What you’ll be doing
• Designing and delivering meaningful activities to service users.
• Transporting & driving service users on our mini bus to and from the centre-based program.
• Assisting with the group with local outings.
• Promoting wellness, community inclusion, skills building and positive relation-ships.
• Ensuring cultural appropriateness of all activities.
What we’re looking for
• Relevant qualification
• Experience working in a community setting and in delivering appropriate social and recreational activities to vulnerable target groups including those with a disability
• Administrative skills including the use of Microsoft packages
• Driving licence with ability and willingness to drive a minibus