Behaviour Specialist

2 months ago

Christchurch, New Zealand Community Care Trust Full time

**Behaviour Specialist -Christchurch, Ōtautahi**

**Full time role for our Youth and Adult Services**

We are delighted to be seeking a full-time **Behaviour Specialist **to join our team based in Christchurch**.** To be successful in this role your personal values will align with those of Community Care Trust**:Respect, Reliability, Transparency, and Responsiveness.**

**About Community Care Trust**:
Community Care Trust’s Vision is a world that truly values and celebrates diversity. We work in partnership with adults and youth across the South Island who need some support in their lives to achieve their goals. We work alongside people to ensure they live the life they want and achieve their dreams and aspirations as valued and contributing people within their community.

Our organisation has a strong commitment to safeguarding children and any employees will be vetted to a level appropriate to the role for which they have applied.

**About the role**:
As a behaviour specialist in our Christchurch services, you will work collaboratively with the support team, whanau, schools and other professionals to provide support to individuals. This support enables developing practical life skills including, household tasks, meeting education/vocational needs, cultural awareness, community activities and participation, building positive relationships with whanau and peers, and everyday problem solving and coping strategies.

The behaviour specialist seeks to create an environment in which individuals can succeed and reach their potential, while building positive relationships and promoting healthy development.

Coaching and mentoring are a big part of your role, you will have great leadership skills and know how to relate to support workers, people we support and stakeholders.

You will have knowledge of the enabling good lives principles, and an understand of what living a good life looks like.

You will walk along side the people you are supporting, realising it is their journey and allow them a space to grow.

CCT Youth and Disability Services in Christchurch include emergency housing, transitional housing, and Individual Care Response in a 24/7 supported environment, and community supports within the school, home, or community.

This is a full-time, salaried position, with usual hours of work being **Monday to Friday 8.30am-5.00pm. **You will also be included in the Crisis Behaviour Support on-call roster. Occasionally, work is required outside of these hours, so a degree of flexibility is required. Travel to other regions is required as part of this role.

**Successful applicant will have**:

- Experience working in youth, disability, or mental health services
- An understanding of trauma informed support
- A proactive and person centered approach to support.
- Clear communication, with the ability to build and maintain positive relationships and the ability to advocate and promote the voice of the supported person at professional meetings
- Proficiency in report writing and using Microsoft Office
- Previous experience in leading a team
- Hold a full current NZ Driver License

**It would be beneficial to have**:

- Tertiary qualification in a relevant field
- Good knowledge of the principles of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) and Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)

To work for us you must:

- Hold a current First Aid Certificate (or be willing to complete one at our cost)
- Be eligible to work in New Zealand and have a valid visa with a minimum of 12 months until expiry
- Hold a FULL, clean New Zealand Driver License

We can fill you in about what makes us unique at an interview or let us know if you have any questions by contacting one of the Human Resource team on 0800 800 001 and ask for Sandy or David.

**Applications close 5pm, Friday 25th October 2024.**

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