Senior Support Worker

**Senior Support Worker**
- ** Permanent, Full-time (40 hours per week)**:

- **General working hours 8:30 to 50pm, Monday to Friday **_(possibility for later hours and weekend work)_
- **Service is based from Papakura, covering **Counties Manukau area**:

- **Pay Band**:$64,335 - $68,876 pa** _(depending on qualifications, experience and skill/competencies)_

**Ember Korowai Takitini**:
We provide innovative, person-centred solutions for people experiencing mental distress, addiction issues and people with intellectual disabilities. We support people to live the lives they choose, and we challenge the systems that hold them back.

By investing in our employees, we aim to grow our own leaders.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and embrace diversity and inclusion in the workplace and are committed to providing a safe and supportive environment for all.

**Ember**:

- Offers additional leave - Recreation days, study leave
- Provides a comprehensive Health & Wellbeing programme, including health checks, flu vaccinations and Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and more
- Provides training opportunities for upskilling, personal & professional development, and career progression.

**The Service**:
Mahia i runga i te rangimārie me te ngākau māhaki

With a peaceful mind and respectful heart, we will always get the best results

Community Support Services South (CSS) - a specialist service within Ember - is responsible for engaging and supporting people who face challenges with their mental wellbeing. The aim is that everyone can engage in their chosen community and achieve their fullest potential. This includes working with the individual as well as a commitment to work actively in partnership with family/whanau, Clinical Partners and/or GP services. Our catchment area is aligned with our Te Whatu Ora - Counties Manukau Clinical Partners Rapua te Ao Waiora and Nga Raukohekohe(Papakura and Franklin). The employees act as a positive role model throughout the process.

The service promotes self management and self reliance and supports people with accommodation, transport, training, employment, self care, and personal and interpersonal skills so that people are enabled to live independently in the community of their choice. Staff work hard to guide and mentor using each and every opportunity to create independence, walking alongside an individual with the goal of total independence.

The service is for people who are currently, or recently been, engaged with Te Whatu Ora - Counties Manukau Clinical Partners who are finding it difficult to live in their community, or to reach their desired goals.

As a service we have fully embraced the Strengths Model and Te Whare Tapa Wha.
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”.

**Role**:
Senior Support Workers, provide support to the team manager and assist team members to ensure the safety and quality of services provided to tāngata whai ora, and that these are delivered in accordance with Ember’s policies, procedures and contract requirements.
- To role model service delivery excellence.
- Ensure Quality and Safety
- Assist team members
- Support team manager
- Organisational involvement
- Personal Developemnt

**You will**:

- Have/Working towards a National Certificate in Health and Wellbeing or equivalent
- Have the ability to work in a team environment and from a bicultural perspective.
- Be professional and have good boundaries and ethics.
- Have experience working in the area of mental health
- Full NZ Drivers Licence
- Valid/Current work visa, residency, or citizenship
- Have a passion for walking along side those in need, supporting on-going goals on the pathway to recovery.

**Vaccination**:

- Up to date CV prepared
- Cover Letter detailing
- Why you’re interested in the role?
- What skills, competencies and experience you bring to the role?