Support Worker - Christchurch
Permanent Part Time
60 hours per fortnight
This role is a combination of morning and afternoon shifts and includes weekend work
Pay rate between $24.00 and $30.00 dependant on qualifications and experience
Te mahi angitu - The opportunity
Based at their residential home in Burnside Christchurch, you will help empower our kiritaki/clients to achieve independence, inclusion and quality of life after a brain injury. You will work as part of a team, where no two days are the same.You will have the opportunity to positively impact people's lives while making a difference.
Mau - You will- Work in partnership with kiritaki applying coaching skills to maximise independence, encourage choice, initiation, and participation in activity, adhering at all times to the values of the organisation and active support principles
- Help with personal support (daily cares) and other daily living tasks. This will involve all aspects of personal cares, including hoisting, bowel cares, and administering medications are per LFBIT policy.
- Be provided will training to support high needs cares such as PEG/PEJ and tracheostomy cares.
- Pay rate between $24.08 and $30.00 depending on qualifications and experience
- The opportunity to further develop your role within a caring profession
- A friendly team focused work environment
- Work that values you
- Staff Discounts
- Easy access to free on-road parking
- Able to communicate effectively both written and verbal
- Able to coach effectively and motivate others
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Accepts change, adapts to new environments, and can compromise
- Have a keen interest in helping others
- Be able to work in partnership with our kiritaki
- Be able to maximise the independence of our kiritaki whilst encouraging choice, initiation, and participation in activities
- Have the ability to demonstrate efficient time management and the ability to work autonomously and be part of a team
- Willing to work within the mission, vision, and values of the organisation
Mo tatou - About us
We are an independent, charitable organisation driven to help our kiritaki achieve independence, inclusion, and quality of life after a brain injury. Through a full continuum of assessment, rehabilitation and support services delivered when and where they're needed, our highly skilled interdisciplinary teamwork with our kiritaki and their families/whanau to develop individualised strategies that equip them to find new pathways through life.
We:
- Welcome Tangata Moana, Tangata Tiriti, Tangata Haumi and Mana Whenua
- Welcome people with a disability
- Welcome neurodiverse people
- Welcome people from the Rainbow community, have taken the Pride Pledge and are a member of the Safe Spaces Alliance
- Are carer friendly and accredited with CareWise
- Are breastfeeding friendly and accredited with CanBreastFeed
If you have the requisite qualifications and experience, are honest, reliable, and professional, with a caring nature and a passion for helping people, we would love to hear from you.
To view a copy of the position description go: https://careers.lfbit.co.nz