Housing Keyworker

**Full Time**:

- **Application Closes 03 Mar 2024**:

- **Auckland - Central Auckland**:

- **Community and Social Service Specialist**

**Housing Keyworker - HomeGround Apartments**

The Keyworker at HomeGround Apartments (HGA) is to provide support that will enable housing stability and empower residents to become independent, using a person-centred and holistic approach to connect them with services that support them to optimise their mental, physical, whanau and spiritual wellbeing.

**Duties**
- Support Residents to maintain and sustain their tenancies.
- Engage, build, and maintain positive working relationships with residents.
- Identify residents who may benefit from supportive services e.g. paying rent on time, respecting their neighbours or complying with the house rules, links with health or mental health services.
- Encourage engagement in any support services (internal and external) and the setting of individual goals and aspirations e.g. financial literacy, debt management, budgeting, education.
- Assist residents moving from HGA to alternative living options.

**Skills**
- Proven experience working in Māori and Pasifika spaces.
- Actively demonstrate the Housing First and Taiki principles and be able to utilise these to guide your practice.
- Ability to collaborate with clients and service providers to provide tailored wrap around services.
- Understand and have experience with intensive clinical needs assessment and planning with vulnerable residents.
- A full clean New Zealand Driver's Licence.

**Benefits**:

- EAP & external supervision
- 5 x ‘Mission leave’ days, additional to annual and sick leave
- Monthly romiromi (holistic energy and bodywork)
- Ongoing training and development
- Being part of a supportive and tightknit team
- 15% discount at Auckland City Mission retail op shops
- Access to low cost, farm fresh produce on a weekly basis
- Discounted parking at SkyCity
- Career progression opportunities

Auckland City Mission - Te Tāpui Atawhai supports Aucklanders in greatest need. Our services have evolved as the city’s social needs have done and we respond to these needs with care and compassion while advocating for a reality where there are: enough suitable homes, enough money for nutritious food and easily accessible health care for all. Since our doors opened more than 100 years ago, this has been our ‘why’. Today we operate across 10 sites in _Tāmaki_ Makaurau. We offer support for however long and in whatever way needed - for some people that’s simply accessing one of our many services, for others that’s a complex journey with our full support.

Over the past 12 months the Mission has provided 200 people with permanent homes, conducted over 20,000 consultations at the Calder Health Centre in HomeGround, cared for 474 people in our residential social detox facility in HomeGround, distributed over 50,000 food parcels to families and individuals, and served over 75,000 warm meals in our community dining room, Haeata. Last year we were proud to win the Nga Āhuatanga o Te Tiriti Tohu (Award), and the Supreme Award at the 2023 Diversity Awards. These awards recognise our mahi to create a workplace which empowers Māori, and where Māori solutions can be developed and offered to the people who we support.