Community Disability Support Facilitator

6 months ago

Palmerston North, New Zealand Healthcare of New Zealand Full time

We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Disability Support Facilitator to join our Manawatu/Horowhenua Team.

**Who we are | Ko wai mātou**

NZCare and Geneva Community Living have come together to form NZCommunity Living, an organisation dedicated to supporting people with disabilities in New Zealand. Our Disability Support Services reflect our belief that all New Zealanders deserve to live fully, have equal opportunities, and achieve their ambitions.

Our values of respect support and excellence are central to everything we do at NZCommunity Living. They shape and drive our behaviour along with our relationships with colleagues, partners, stakeholders and of course the people we support and their whānau.

You can be part of our team to enable people with a disability to live a life of choice, freedom and independence. NZCommunity Living provides a diverse range of support services for people with disability and their whānau. Join us and discover a rewarding and fulfilling role that can make a difference in someone's life and lead to a lifelong career.

We are committed to ensuring our services are delivered to Māori in a manner that recognises and respects Māori values and beliefs. As an organisation we recognise our obligation to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and acknowledge Māori as tangata whenua who have unique values, social structures and worldviews.

We work with a range of partners in local and central Government, public and private sector agencies and community groups to advise on delivering effective and efficient disability support now and in the future.

**About the role | He kōrero whakamārama mō tēnei tūranga**

As the Community Disability Support Facilitator, you are responsible for providing support to people with disabilities, and their whānau, to live independent lives. You will do this by developing and maintaining effective and successful relationships with them and their support network and co-creating plans for achieving the outcomes that are important to them. You will lead a team of Support Workers to deliver successful outcomes against those agreed plans.

To be successful in this role you will thrive a customer-centric environment. You'll bring unmatched positivity and enthusiasm to the position, with the people we support at the centre of everything you do. You'll be a natural communicator with a real drive to connect, promote and engage across a number of different stakeholders. You'll get a kick out of listening and understanding people with a solution focused approach.

Responsibilities include:

- Building and maintaining an engaged, cohesive and high performing team across the services you lead
- Meeting with the person we support and their whānau to understand their life, ambitions, and expectations of their support and services to be provided
- Negotiating the details of the support plan - the who, what, where, how and why - with the person we support and their whānau in a way that balances the organisation's constraints with the requirements and expectations of the person we support
- Ensuring robust service agreements, that balance people's goals & needs with organisational risk, are in place for all support arrangements.
- Working collaboratively with the Service Centre to ensure rostering requirements from the support plans, including capability required, meet the needs of each person we support and their family/whanau

**What you will bring | Nga tohungatanga mo tenei turanga**
- Minimum three years' experience working within disability, mental health or education with a good understanding of the sector
- Strong communication skills, including written communications, with the ability to adapt for different stakeholders
- Leadership experience, a passion and expertise for developing skills in others
- Proven ability to work with people with intellectual disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder(FASD), ideally with some practical experience in working with those who display behaviour others' find challenging
- Understanding of the enabling good lives principles
- Impeccable time management and administrative abilities - experience of rostering and/or budget management experience an advantage
- A professional, passionate attitude and you value constant training, guidance and teamwork
- A full, clean NZ drivers' license

**Why Us | He aha ai mātou?**

**All applicants must be a NZ Resident/Citizen or have a valid NZ work visa.

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