disability support worker

Disability support workers provide personal assistance and support to individuals of all ages with disability conditions, either intellectual or physical disabilities. They work with other health professionals to maximise individuals physical and mental well being. Their duties include bathing, lifting, moving, dressing or feeding people with disability.

The most in-demand skills for this role include customer service, legal requirements in the social sector, social sciences, disability care, disability types, company policies. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives disability support worker a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.