Community Facilitator

2 weeks ago


Queenstown, New Zealand headlight Full time

Location: Queenstown.

Hours: Minimum 10 Hours Per Month

Must be available on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th October

headlight community facilitators play a vital role in delivering the award winning GoodYarn mental health education workshop to the Queenstown Community. GoodYarn is a 3 hour mental health education workshop that upskills its participants to be able to talk about mental health confidently, recognise signs and symptoms of stress and distress and know where to get help.

We deliver the workshop to a wide range of community members from parents to migrants, volunteers, caregivers and small to medium businesses, with different workshops being added as we identity needs.

**Job Description**:
As a Community Facilitator you are part of a team that is shining a light on mental health and wellbeing in your community. You are passionate about uplifting mental health education across Queenstown Lakes and you are a champion for your own mental health and wellbeing. You help reduce stigma and discrimination by speaking about mental health and upskill and empower your community to support their own mental health. You do this in two ways;
- Facilitator: You facilitate the GoodYarn workshop to the Queenstown community. You bring the content to life ensuring that everyone understands what mental health is and leaves with the skills and confidence to talk about it.
- Community connector: You are a community connector and find it easy to build relationships with community leaders, stakeholders and influencers as a way of elevating the headlight reputation and credibility. You connect the community to local resources that will benefit them and actively look for opportunities to better support your community by listening and identifying unmet needs.

About you:

- You live in the Queenstown area and understand the unique challenges the community faces.
- You have lived experience of mental stress or distress either yourself or through the people in your life, and you understand how this affects lives and communities.
- You believe in the importance of communities being able to recognise signs and symptoms and talking about mental wellbeing, and are determined to beat stigma and discrimination.
- You are someone who can help us to raise awareness of the workshops through your own community profile, channels, networks.
- You have excellent communication skills, you listen to understand and speak with care. You can hear what is being said verbally and non verbally.
- You naturally connect to the people around you and are inclusive of all audiences both in 1:1 or group situations, made up of different race, age, gender and disabilities.
- You have the ability to use your own initiative, have excellent organisation and know how to manage your time and the time of others effectively. You are computer literate and are able to are fluent in English.
- You can provide documents showing you have the legal right to work in NZ.
- You are able to work flexible hours including weekends and evenings, depending on what is most suitable for your community to ensure maximum workshop engagement.
- You hold a current NZ driver’s licence and you may be required to complete a Police Vetting check.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- To facilitate at least 1 GoodYarn workshop a month to an excellent standard to different communities and audiences.
- To work with the GoodYarn Coordinator in registering participants and submitting evaluation forms.
- To work with the GoodYarn Coordinator to organise any resources needed for the workshop ie. food, drink, tableware, projectors. These are all provided by the Trust, are venue specific and might would need to be stored with you.
- To advise the Marketing Coordinator about promotional material requirements.
- To attend a monthly team meeting and facilitator training dates.
- To take part, if required, in publicity for the promotion of workshops, ie radio interviews, media release quotes and pictures, social media promotions and sharing.
- To uphold the Trust’s Safety, Support and Wellbeing guidelines.
- Feedback to the Trust any identified unmet community needs learned by listening and talking with your community.
- Act as a resource/support for other Facilitators and as a role model for Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and enable others to promote this standard in a non-discriminatory culture.
- To uphold the license agreement between the Southern Wellbeing Trust and Good Programmes Trust.

**Job Type**: Casual

Schedule:

- Flexible hours



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