Resource Worker

14 hours ago

Auckland City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Join a supportive team working to awhi dedicated live-in caregivers to change the lives of tamariki and rangatahi.**:

- **Use your life experience to mentor others, and to be a positive role model.**:

- **Hourly rate of $26 per hour.**:

- **Auckland location**

Are you driven to make a difference for tamariki and their wh nau? At Oranga Tamariki we are dedicated to putting tamariki and rangatahi at the heart of everything we do and say. Our Tamariki deserve to feel safe, have their voices heard and be surrounded by loving wh nau. We are on a journey to ensure it happens.

We are seeking a Casual Resource worker - Domestic Support for the Auckland region to provide support services. You will play an important part in a very rewarding role.

**What's in it for you | Nou te rourou**
- A work life balance.
- A close-knit team who love to work together.
- Supportive working environment.
- Training opportunities, including First-Aid Certification, Trust-Based Relational Intervention, Trauma, Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), Management of Actual or Potential Aggression (MAPA).
- Flexible working hours.

**About the role | Mo te tunga**

The work you do will vary depending on the needs at the time but could include the following:

- Significant part of the role is home cleaning and domestic work, supporting live-in caregivers to maintain a clean and safe living environment for tamariki and rangatahi.
- Assisting with transport for tamariki to education, therapy, or health appointments as required.
- Supporting live-in caregivers with day to day running of the household, this may include running errands or grocery shopping.
- Supporting the home with establishing routines and enabling tamariki to settle into their new surroundings. Tamariki can be infants right up to adolescents.
- Predominantly weekday work, with some flexibility to support occasional weekend shifts when live-in caregivers are accessing respite.

**About Us**

Our tamariki and rangatahi deserve to feel safe, have their voices heard and be supported by loving wh nau. At Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children, we're on a journey to ensure that it happens. We are a leading social work practice that is child-centred, trauma informed and effective for all cultures.

**What you will bring | Ng pumanawatanga ou**
- Empathy, patience and ability to see through behaviours, to acknowledge what someone might be struggling with.
- Experience working with tamariki and/or youth with varied needs.
- A clean, current, full driver's license; and confidence driving a van.
- Excellent verbal communication skills and the ability to adapt to your audience.
- Flexibility in working different hours and days at short notice.
- Open and adaptable to an environment that is always changing.
- Have a calm and professional manner.
- Excellent listening, oral, written and observation skills.
- Understanding and appreciation of cross-cultural practices, in particular, knowledge of tikanga M ori, and Pasifika culture.

**Applications close: 9th Novemebr 2025**

If you are interested in any of our vacancies, please ensure that you make yourself familiar with our code of conduct as it sets out our expectations for our kaimahi and requires you to present at work free from the influences of both drugs and alcohol.

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