Programme Leader

6 days ago

Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand Spectrum Care Full time NZ$40,000 - NZ$60,000 per year

Fixed Term - 40 hours per week

$ $29.10 plus Programme Leader allowance

Lower Hutt location

Are you:

  • A team player with strong leadership qualities?
  • Great at communicating?
  • Adept to facilitating a structured, strengths-based children's programme

As a Programme Leader in one of our School Holiday Programmes, you will lead a team, dedicated to creating and maintaining a safe, secure and healthy space, where children with intellectual disabilities can spend time during the holidays. Reporting to the Service Coordinator, you will facilitate meaningful activities and support children to engage in a variety of tasks.

Our school holiday programme is all about fun activities in a safe and positive environment. In a collaborative effort, we ensure that all children are catered for and active participation is achieved.

Involved in this role is administration, resource management and the coaching and leading of your team.

This is a fixed term contract covering 3+ consecutive weeks (Monday to Friday - excluding training), which coincide with the Term 4 school holidays (January)

Minimum requirements:

  • A full New Zealand driver's license
  • Able to pass a NZ police check and Oranga Tamariki check
  • Previous experience in caring for children with disabilities - preferred, but not essential
  • The ability to communicate effectively to the people you will support, their families and the team including your manager- you may need to learn a range of communication styles, our people sometimes use tools to communicate.
  • The ability to lead, coach and develop team members, and to troubleshoot
  • Experience supporting people with disabilities and an understanding of positive behaviour support strategies
  • Ability to organise and allocate rosters and handle the booking calendar for attendance.

What we offer:

  • A supportive and collaborative work environment
  • Full training and support
  • The opportunity to support people with disabilities to live great lives

If you are interested in supporting children and young people to develop self-confidence and independence, and live their lives of choice, lives like any other, in their own communities, then we want to hear from you today

For any queries, please email Siena at (Please note: We do not accept email applications, please apply through the "Apply Now" link)

Job Details

Reference #

40264

Posted on

13 Oct 2025

Closes on

13 Nov :59

Location(s)

Lower Hutt

Expertise

Community Support Worker

Work type(s)

Fixed term

Hours per week

Availability

Day shifts

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