Support Worker / Life Facilitator
Visa sponsorship
Community Services · Tauranga, New Zealand · Contract · $25 - $30/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored
Kabayan, if caring for people is your calling, this Support Worker / Life Facilitator contract in Tauranga, New Zealand could be a meaningful next step. A disability support service is looking for someone dedicated to join the 24/7 team around a client with tetraplegia who loves staying active and engaged and has full-time commitments.
It is more than a caregiving job. Alongside the team, you would help with personal cares, daily routines and companionship, and you would drive and go with the client to work and family commitments, travel included at times. The full-time roster mixes day shifts (7 am to 5 pm) with night shifts (5 pm to 7 am, sleepover period included), around 35 hours or more weekly across about 2 to 4 shifts, and 2 weekend shifts a month. The client and team train you thoroughly.
Encouragingly, this is an accredited employer with job tokens available, so it can support work visas through AEWV sponsorship.
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Key Responsibilities
- Help the client with personal cares
- Assist with daily activities and give warm companionship
- Drive and accompany the client to keep up with work and family commitments
- Join the 24/7 support team on a mix of AM and PM shifts
- Follow the care plan and the job description
- Keep the client's surroundings comfortable and engaging
- Lend a hand with coordinating the 24/7 roster
Requirements & Eligibility
- Working towards a Level 3 or higher NZQA health and wellbeing qualification
- A good grasp of 24/7 roster coordination
- Hands-on training experience in line with a care plan and job description
- Professional, honest, trustworthy and reliable character
- Good communication skills, adaptability to changing needs, initiative, common sense and a positive attitude
- A driver licence
- A high level of English
- Strong availability, afternoons, evenings and sleepovers included, plus 2 weekend shifts a month
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