Support Worker

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

- **Service operates, Monday - Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm**.
- **Position is based from our Otahuhu service.**:

- **Pay Equity: $24.00ph - $29.25ph** (depending on qualification held and its equivalence to the Certificate in Health and Wellbeing L4)

Ember values our employees - they are our secret sauce and we are committed to doing the best we can do for our kaimahi. We believe our people’s abilities, knowledge and experience are irreplaceable. To support this, we offer a higher hourly rate, above the current statutory requirement, for employees who are covered by the Pay Equity Settlement Agreement.

**Ember Korowai Takitini**:
Ember Korowai Takitini blends professional expertise and lived experience to offer a range of services and supports for anyone with mental health, addiction or intellectual disability needs

At Ember we support people to live the lives they choose and we challenge the systems that hold them back.

We desire a society that better understands and responds to mental distress, addiction and intellectual disability

**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**:
ISS provides a service to clients with High and Complex needs i.e. Intellectual Disability with forensic background and/or mental illness. This service provides individualised support to develop client life skills that will improve their quality of life, through day programmes built and facilitated within the service and its Support Workers.

We work in partnership with residential services to provide an all-encompassing array of supportive services to facilitate the client on their pathway to rehabilitation.

**Role**:
Support Worker’s provide life skills and day services, specifically tailored to the individual needs of each client, combining client-centred goals with behavioural interventions.

Expectations of our Support Worker’s include community support of individual and groups of clients as well as facilitation of day and life skills programmes. The intended outcome is to provide clients with a sense of identity, self-confidence, and practical skills to lead successful lives within the community of their choice.
- Facilitating the development of a range of skills that promote community participation and successful entry to the mainstream labour market.
- Identifying needs, setting goals, providing support, role-modelling, coaching and utilisation of demonstrable outcome measures.
- Facilitate the design, delivery, and evaluation of quality programmes as well as the core ISS programmes that are run every term.
- Provide or coordinate one-on-one and/or group support and training that assists an individual with high and complex needs to develop interpersonal and pre-vocational skills that improves his/her quality of life and enables him/her to live within the community of choice.
- The work activities are of a physical nature and may involve active participation in sports and restrains of clients.

**You will**:

- Have a National Certificate in Health and Wellbeing Level 4 or equivalent.
- Hold a Full NZ Drivers Licence
- Have a valid/current work visa, residency, or citizenship
- Have experience working with intellectual disability and complex behaviours.
- Have exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to relate, adapt to and engage a wide spectrum of people with diverse backgrounds, ages and cultures.
- Have a passion for walking along side those in need, supporting on-going goals on the pathway to recovery.
- 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?