Community Support Worker - Residential
Community Support Worker - Residential
Full time - 40 hours per week
$23.50 - $29.10 per hour
Upper Hutt location
We have recently opened a new home in Upper Hutt, and we're looking for an amazing staff team to work with 2 young men and 1 woman ranging in age from 19 to 30. We'll be needing a full team, to welcome applications from people wanting full time, part time or casual work, either daytime, or awake overnight shifts.
The 3 flatmates have loving and supportive families, who continue to be very involved in their kids' lives, so as well as building trust with the flatmates, you'll need to build trust with families too. You will work closely with them to support the flatties to live their best lives.You will enjoy being involved in their lives and seeing them actively exploring new opportunities in their home and neighborhoods. You'll need to have humor, warmth, good energy and the initiative to organize things that make life fun for these fabulous young people.
They communicate in a variety of ways; gestures, some words, vocalizations, facial expressions, and some communication devices and tools. A key skill is being intuitive and patient, so you can really tune in to what's going on for each person and respond to them.
This is very much about making this new house into their home for this next phase of their life after leaving their family home. With your help, these wonderful people will continue to lead good lives, enjoying and exploring whatever their neighborhoods has to offer and keeping connected with their whanau and friends.
As the flatmates have physical support needs, your role as a support worker will include intimate care like helping to go to the toilet and have showers. You will need to be respectful and intuitive as you do this and be vigilant to their physical health and emotional comfort, giving them as much voice, choice and control as possible.You'll need to be fit enough to push a wheelchair and willing to get in the swimming pool to enjoy some fun water play.
The ideal candidate will:
- Have some experience supporting disabled people
- Be reliable, respectful and intuitive
- Be willing and able to support their current abilities and teach new ones
- Figure out what brings them joy and do their best to make it happen
- Be adaptable to unique communication styles
- Have the initiative & motivation to work in partnership with each flatmate in creating daily, weekly to yearly personal goal plans
- Basic computer skills such as emails, internet searching and Word
- Full drivers license preferred
What the role offers:
- Ongoing development and study opportunities - earn while you learn! We can support you to achieve NZQA Health and Wellbeing qualifications.
- A meaningful, life changing career
- A fun vibrant workplace where every day is genuinely different
- Pay rates from $23.50 - $29.10 per hour
If you are a non-resident applying for this role you must meet the following INZ Level 3 skill requirements to be considered:
- at least 2 years of relevant work experience, or
- a relevant qualification on the New Zealand Qualifications and Credentials Framework (NZQCF) — this must be at least a level 4 qualification for a role at skill level 3, or a diploma for a role at skill level 2.
Apply now if you have a passion for working with people and want to make a difference!