Community Liaison Advisor

2 weeks ago

Gisborne, Gisborne, New Zealand Your Way Full time

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Your Way | Kia Roha is seeking two dedicated and empathetic Community Liaison Advisors to join our team. As a Community Liaison Advisor, you will play a vital role in gathering, collating, and providing information on disability, health, education, and community resources to support disabled people in living well.

You will also:
  • Provide accurate, up-to-date, and culturally appropriate information to disabled people, their families, professionals, and the wider community
  • Collaborate with team members and external organizations to respond to information requests via email, phone, and face-to-face interactions
  • Ensure information and support are culturally responsive, particularly for Māori, and promote self-determination
  • Continuously seek to improve and innovate local disability information services
  • Validate information accuracy by engaging with individuals with lived experience, disability and community organisations, and government agencies.
For you to be successful in this role you will need:
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to adapt communication skills to the situation at hand
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to empathise
  • Cultural awareness particularly, tikanga, Te Ao Māori and working with Pasifika peoples
  • Understanding of, and commitment to, the Enabling Good Lives principles
  • Ability to research, and write easy to understand information
  • Deep understanding and / or lived experience of disability or personal experience as a whānau member or ally of a disabled person
  • Knowledge and experience of disability or health and/or social sectors
  • Willingness and ability to travel around the region as and when required
  • Proven ability to work independently but collegially to achieve engage great results.
These are part-time roles consisting of:
  • 15 hours per week – Gisborne
  • 5 hours per week – rural surrounding areas

What's on offer:

  • Work in an organisation where your opinion matters
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Employee assistance programme available for staff
  • An extra day of leave for your birthday
  • Staff discounts at a range of retailers.

About Your Way | Kia Roha:

Your Way | Kia Roha (previously known as Life Unlimited Charitable Trust) is a nationally recognised Not-for-profit organisation supporting people in their communities from Whangarei to Invercargill. We have been providing support to people and their whanau for over 40 years.

Moemoea | Vision

Disabled people thriving, living the lives they choose in their communities

Enabling innovative community solutions by and with disabled people

  • Rangatiratanga | Self-Leadership: Choice and control over decisions builds on the mana of every individual
  • Manawatoa | Courageous: Innovative, aspirational, and bold in our actions
  • Whanaungatanga |Connection: Relationships matter, we work together with whānau and others
  • Kohitanga | Inclusion: Everyone is included and respected for who they are
  • Kaitiakitanga | Guardianship: Sustain and respect the mauri | life force of those we work with.

Your Way | Kia Roha is an equal opportunity employer; we strive to attract and maintain a diverse workforce across the country. As an organisation we are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusiveness and ensuring a positive culture for people to work in.

We encourage applications from people with a lived experience of disability or who are close family members of people with disability. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application to assist you through the recruitment process.

Applications for this role close on 23 June 2024. Preferred candidates may be contacted before this time.

We encourage all Your Way | Kia Roha team members to be fully vaccinated when vaccinations are recommended to reduce the risk of the spread of diseases or viruses.

Applicants for this position must have the legal rights to work in New Zealand.

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