Empowering Community Support Worker: Enable Independence

Squarespace, Inc; Dargaville; On-site; NZD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Job summary

CCS Disability Action in New Zealand is seeking a Community Support Worker to help disabled people live independently at home and participate in their communities, guided by Personal Plans and Enabling Good Lives principles.

You will work flexibly with culturally respectful, person-centered support, enabling decisions and inclusion for families/whānau. A Health Care Assistant qualification or Level 2/3 or equivalent, or willingness to undertake training, is valued.

Qualifications

• Have a passion for enabling others to lead good lives.
• Flexible hours
• Access to transportation to get to and from work
• A minimum of 1 year's experience working alongside Youth would be an advantage for our respite service
• Experience providing one to one support in the community is preferred but not essential
• Health Care Assistant Qualification or a Level 2 or 3 equivalent or experience working in the Disability sector, or a willingness to undertake training

Responsibilities

• As a Community Support Worker, you will: Ensure disabled people have the ability to reach their identified goals in an enabling, culturally respectful and unobtrusive manner.
• That the support work is driven by the person we support individual Personal Plan.
• That the service delivery is creative, flexible, and responsive to the needs of the disabled person and in line with CCS Disability Actions values and mandates.
• With the support of our organisation, you’ll: Ensure that disabled people are supported in making their own decisions and can participate to the best of their ability within their own communities.
• Provide empowering, competent, and respectful support consistent with the cultural values of the individual, and his or her whanau.
• Provide support which encourages and facilitates the individual’s inclusion in their family/whānau and wider community
• Communities are aware and are more inclusive of disabled people and their families/whānau.
• Our organisation takes a social, rather than medical approach, supporting disabled people to live their best lives. We are guided by the Enabling Good Lives principles, shifting power and authority back to disabled people and their families, to increase choice and control in their lives.

Job description

CCS Disability Action in New Zealand is seeking a Community Support Worker to help disabled people live independently at home and participate in their communities, guided by Personal Plans and Enabling Good Lives principles.

You will work flexibly with culturally respectful, person-centered support, enabling decisions and inclusion for families/whānau. A Health Care Assistant qualification or Level 2/3 or equivalent, or willingness to undertake training, is valued.