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Community Support Work
Part Time
25.00 - 25.00
Job description
We're looking for Support Workers with an understanding of Traumatic Brain Injuries to support our clients with community-based rehabilitation type support, companionship, and everyday encouragement.
We offer:
You’ll be supporting a variety of complex clients. Your role will be key in helping them maintain their independence and enjoy life to the fullest.
Key Responsibilities and skills required vary client to client but include:
Rebuilding their life skills
You will help by building social connections:
Meaningful employment opportunities by:
Make a real difference in someone’s life while being part of a supportive and respectful care environment. Help us build independence
By empowering clients to learn and develop strategies to be able to manage their everyday life and become more independent
We offer:
- Casual Hours
- Competitive pay for qualifications
- On-going work
You’ll be supporting a variety of complex clients. Your role will be key in helping them maintain their independence and enjoy life to the fullest.
Key Responsibilities and skills required vary client to client but include:
Rebuilding their life skills
- Budgeting
- Meal planning
- Being able to fit in with client's family life / busy household
- Friendly and good sense of humour
- Effective communicator
- Calm under pressure
- Assist with personal care routines
- Help encourage and accompany the client on outings
- Drive or accompany the client safely to and from appointments or activities
- Support general wellbeing and daily routines to enable independence
You will help by building social connections:
- Support with integrating back into the community
- Support and identify attending groups
- Building social networks
Meaningful employment opportunities by:
- Supporting clients to find paid or volunteer opportunities
- Creating and writing applications, cover letters and resumes.
- A genuine passion for caregiving
- Prior experience in healthcare support work
- Level 2, 3 or 4 health qualification is required
- Comfortable with personal care tasks
- Confident driver with a clean license
- Positive, patient, and proactive attitude
Make a real difference in someone’s life while being part of a supportive and respectful care environment. Help us build independence
By empowering clients to learn and develop strategies to be able to manage their everyday life and become more independent
Required skills
communication
budgeting
driver's license
level 2
level 3
outings
activities
groups
health qualification
applications
appointments
level 4
resumes
traumatic brain injuries
community-based rehabilitation
meal planning
calm under pressure
personal care routines
social connections
building social networks
meaningful employment opportunities
paid or volunteer opportunities
cover letters
healthcare support work
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Company information
- Company
- Medcall
- Location
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New Zealand, North Island, Manawatu-Wanganui, Dannevirke
New Zealand - Posted
- 9 months ago
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