Experienced Support Workers - Rotorua

Access; Rotorua; Hybrid; NZD 39,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Exclusive Spark Mobile Plan

Flexible hours

Weekend allowances

Career pathway for Kaiāwhina

Job summary

Access Community Health is seeking a compassionate Support Worker to provide safe, person-centred care in clients’ homes across Aotearoa. Roles include daily living support, palliative care, and dementia care while honouring each person’s culture and values.

The job emphasizes training during onboarding, ongoing development, and a clear career pathway for Kaiāwhina| Support Workers in a flexible, life‑friendly environment.

Qualifications

• Love working with people and helping them thrive.
• Be willing to learn, reflect, and adapt your approach to what matters for each person.
• Have experience in or exposure to caregiving, disability support, aged care, community work, or other people‑facing roles.
• Committed to culturally safe, respectful support for people from all backgrounds.
• Intuitive and responsive to people’s needs.
• Own a smartphone.
• Have the right to work in New Zealand.
• Full driver’s license.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe, respectful, and person‑centred support in people’s homes, including daily living tasks and care.
• Assist with high risk individual care requirements and tasks such as palliative care, bowel care, dementia support, and medication support.
• Support clients in ways that respect their culture, values, beliefs, routines and boundaries.

Skills

Love working with people

Willing to learn & adapt

Caregiving experience

Culturally safe support

People-focused intuition

Own a smartphone

Right to work in NZ

Full driver’s license

Job description

We're looking for a compassionate, reliable and proactive Support Worker to join our team.

08th September, 2026

Looking for a role that works around your life?

Whetheryou’rebalancing study, family, or other commitments, we may be able to accommodate your availability based on the care needs in our community.

Each Tangata will have high risk individual care requirements, and you will support them with all elements of daily living such as Palliative cares, Bowel cares, Dementia, Mental health, Medication.

You will provide safe, respectful, andperson‑centredsupport in people’s homes, being mindful of what matters to them, including their culture, values, beliefs, routines, and boundaries.

Whakangungu| Training

We provide practical and online training during the first few weeks of employment. With theadded bonusof year-round training with regular refreshers and new modules to keep skills up to date.You’llbe supported through structured induction, ongoing training, refreshers, and clear development pathways.

MōhouAke | About You

The following skills and experience may be required depending on the specific client needs you are matched to.

• Love working with people and helping them thrive
• Be willing to learn, reflect, and adapt your approach to what matters for each person
• Have experience in or exposure to caregiving, disability support, aged care, community work, or otherpeople‑facingroles
• Committed to culturally safe, respectful support for people from all backgrounds
• Intuitive and responsive to people’s needs
• Own a smartphone
• Have the right to work in New Zealand
• $28.03 - $30.27 plus weekend allowances
• A clear career pathway forKaiāwhina| Support Workers
• Exclusive Spark Mobile Plan: Endless data (40GB at max speed), unlimited NZ/AU calls & texts, hotspot access, voicemail for just $24.15/month

08th September, 2026

Looking for a role that works around your life?

Whetheryou’rebalancing study, family, or other commitments, we may be able to accommodate your availability based on the care needs in our community.

Each Tangata will have high risk individual care requirements, and you will support them with all elements of daily living such as Palliative cares, Bowel cares, Dementia, Mental health, Medication.

You will provide safe, respectful, andperson‑centredsupport in people’s homes, being mindful of what matters to them, including their culture, values, beliefs, routines, and boundaries.

Whakangungu| Training

We provide practical and online training during the first few weeks of employment. With theadded bonusof year-round training with regular refreshers and new modules to keep skills up to date.You’llbe supported through structured induction, ongoing training, refreshers, and clear development pathways.

MōhouAke | About You

The following skills and experience may be required depending on the specific client needs you are matched to.

• Love working with people and helping them thrive
• Be willing to learn, reflect, and adapt your approach to what matters for each person
• Have experience in or exposure to caregiving, disability support, aged care, community work, or otherpeople‑facingroles
• Committed to culturally safe, respectful support for people from all backgrounds
• Intuitive and responsive to people’s needs
• Own a smartphone
• Have the right to work in New Zealand
• Full driver’s license

He aha aimātou? | Why Us

• Flexible hours – mornings, evenings, weekends
• $28.03 - $30.27 plus weekend allowances
• A clear career pathway forKaiāwhina| Support Workers
• Exclusive Spark Mobile Plan: Endless data (40GB at max speed), unlimited NZ/AU calls & texts, hotspot access, voicemail for just $24.15/month

Some client needs require Support Workers who hold a Level 3 or Level 4 Health and Wellbeing qualification to ensure safe andappropriate care. We supportequitablerecruitment by recognising transferable experience and, whereappropriate, providing training pathways to build andmaintainLevel 3–4 capability. Support Workers are matched to client needs based on skills, experience, and qualifications.

Access Community Health | Uru Ātea’s mission is to create a better day, every day for thousands of people throughout Aotearoa, helping them live independently in their own homes and communities. Uru Ātea means “to enter space”—our promise to deliver services wherever our clients need us.