Service Facilitator

North Island - Wellington Porirua; Porirua; On-site; NZD 48,000 - 64,000; Part time

Job summary

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is seeking a part-time coordinator to perform Needs Assessments and Service Coordination for people with disabilities across the Kapiti and Wellington region. You will engage with clients and providers to arrange supports, ensuring person-centred and equitable care.

The role is based at Kenepuru Hospital, with collaboration across the Capital Support team. The position offers 0.75 FTE (30 hours/week), with hours negotiable and a focus on delivering enabling good

Qualifications

• Experience within the disability sector is desirable but not compulsory.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport with clients and stakeholders.
• Strong prioritisation and workload management.
• Proficiency with basic computer applications.
• Commitment to Enabling Good Lives principles and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Responsibilities

• Conduct Needs Assessments and Service Coordination for people with disabilities.
• Coordinate with contracted providers and key stakeholders to arrange services.
• Maintain client relationships and comprehensive documentation across caseloads.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Disability sector experience

Time management

Computer literacy

Education

Disability sector qualification

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Location:Kenepuru Hospital, but communitybased

Contract:Permanent, Part Time (0.75 FTE / 30hours per week, Monday to Friday - Hours each day is negotiable)

We also have a fixed term, full time opportunity

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora isfirmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated toserving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we'rebuilding a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability,whānau-centred care, and excellence.

About the Role

No one day is the same in this rolewhich makes it exciting and refreshing. Serving our typically under 65 years ofage disabled community to provide needs assessments wherever they chose to meetfrom South Wellington to Peka Peka in Kapiti and all in between. Essentiallyyou will be completing Needs Assessments and then Service Co-ordination forpeople with Intellectual, ASD, sensory and physical disability as per criteriafor Disability support services, but the role is much more encompassing thanthat. Relationships with contracted providers and many other key stakeholders.

About the Team/ServiceLocation

The Capital Support team based at Kenepurujust outside the main hospital itself is a team that values collaboration,teamwork and manakitanga. You will be welcomed by the team that will ensure youare well supported always. We enjoy celebrating success through food anddiscussion, and sharing our diverse yet inter-twined culture that makes ourteam. Our team consists of such wide and varying experience, background andtraining, from Occupational Therapists, to Speech and language therapists, tosocial work, education, nursing, and to name so much more. You will learn a lotfrom each staff's experience and skillset that will help you build and grow inyour knowledge of such an all-encompassing sector.

About you

• A sound workingknowledge and experience within the disability sector, a relevant qualificationis desirable but not compulsory.
• Great interpersonalskills and an ability to form and maintain rapport and trust with clients/whanau, contracted providers, MSD, Oranga Tamariki, Mental Health, ChildDevelopment Team, ACC, and many others.
• Strong resilience and ability to prioritise workload, recognise what is urgent and important, notso important and not urgent, and anywhere in between, whilst ensuring allworkflow is achieved.
• Sound knowledgeof basic computer skills and utilisation of applications.
• An absolute commitment to working within Enabling good lives principles, Te Tiriti oWaitangi, multiculturalism, United Nations Convention of Rights for Peoplewith Disabilities, and current NZ Disability Strategy.

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is'the weaving of wellness'. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare forthe people of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Our people are at the heartofeverything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers andhonouring our equal employment opportunity obligations. We embrace diversityand welcome application from all people, including all gender identities, ages,ethnicities, sexual orientations, and disability. A workforce that is diverseand inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and service ourcommunity. We are pro‑equity health organisation, with a particular focus onMāori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advertisement.

Job details

Job Reference:

Job Reference: AH195-26

Location:

North Island - Wellington - Porirua

Job type:

Expertise:

Non-Clinical - Administration - Administration

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Non-clinical - Coordinator - Coordinator

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