Support Worker

Permanent 45 hours a fortnight all afternoon shifts

• 3pm-11pm for all shifts
• Week One: Friday, Saturday, Sunday
• Week Two: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Pay rate of between $24.08 and $30.00 per hour depending on your qualifications and experience.

Te mahi angitu - The opportunity

Based at their homes in a complex in Christchurch, you will help empower our clients to access their community, and achieve independence, inclusion, and quality of life after a brain injury. You will work as part of a small team, providing support to our clients. Experience preferred but not essential.

Ka whakahere matau ki a koe - What we can offer you

• Pay rate of between $24.08 and $30.00 per hour depending on your qualifications and experience
• Support for you to gain a qualification
• The opportunity to further develop your role within a caring profession
• A friendly team focussed work environment
• 2-week fixed roster
• Work that values you
• Staff Discounts
• Easy access to on-road parking

Ko wai koe - About you

• Have at least two to three years experience of support work and working with people with disabilities
• Able to communicate effectively
• Have a keen interest in helping others
• Be able to work in partnership with our clients
• Be able to maximise the independence of our clients 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
• Have a full driver's licence
• Have a keen interest in cooking
• Willing to work within the mission, vision, and values of the organisation

Mo matau - About us

We are an independent, charitable organisation driven to help our clients 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 are needed, our highly skilled interdisciplinary team work with our clients 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 are interested in this opportunity we would love to hear from you.

To view a copy of the position description go: https://careers.lfbit.co.nz