Meet our new coordinators
Three assistant coordinators have been promoted to new roles at InLife as they continue building their careers in the disability sector.
InLife has welcomed three new people into the ranks of our coordinators.
All of them had previously worked as support workers, then assistant coordinators before being promoted to the coordinator role.
The assistant coordinator position is designed as a stepping stone to help support workers learn valuable skills to keep progressing their careers in the disability sector.
Coordinators are responsible for managing support worker teams around a client.
Ash O’Keefe (Geelong)
Ash was an integration aid at a high school for about five years before deciding to give disability support a go.
She joined InLife as a support worker and is now a fully fledged coordinator.
”I’m really enjoying it and I think it helps that the Geelong office is such a close team working together,” she said.
“They make it really easy to learn all the new things and I know that if I have a question they can point me in the right direction or assist with the information themselves.”
“I’m really looking forward to onboarding a client from scratch, building teams and getting everything in place and then watching them kick goals through all the work we put in behind the scenes.”
Kate Mahoney (north west Victoria)
Kate from regional Victoria started out at InLife as a support worker after studying allied health.
She said one of the benefits of being promoted from within InLife was continuing to work with clients she already knew well.
“All the clients I have, I have pretty much worked with in the past when I was a support worker and have built up a rapport with,” she said.
“It’s so nice coming into an industry and being able to make your way up the ladder and having the opportunity to do that.”
Meanwhile, the reason Kate started working in disability support remains the same:
“I enjoy making people’s lives better and helping them live an independent life,” she said.
Danielle Scida (west Melbourne)
For Danielle, also a former support worker, the promotion has been a learning curve that has led to new opportunities.
“I feel like at the beginning there was a lot of learning of processes,” she said.
“I’m enjoying it, I find the work-life balance and flexibility works really well for me having small children.”
Danielle said a highlight of the new role was finding the right people to join a client’s team.
“I enjoy finding support workers that match a client’s needs and personalities,” she said.
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