Casual Support Worker

**Casual Support Worker, Intensive Support Service**
- ** Casual (no guaranteed hours, As/When needed)**:

- **Service operates, Monday - Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm**.
- **Position is based in our New Lynn service.**:

- **Pay Equity: $22.49ph - $28.25ph** (depending on qualification held and its equivalence to the Certificate in Health and Wellbeing L4)

**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**:
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.
- Be fully Covid vaccinated with 1st & 2nd and a booster vaccination in compliance with the mandate for the health sector.
- Have a passion for walking along side those in need, supporting on-going goals on the pathway to recovery.