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Support Worker

Onshore applicants only

JobFinder · Dunedin · Full-time

  • Salary: $25.08 - $30.43 per hour
  • Location: Dunedin
  • Type: Full-time
  • Visa: Employer sponsored
  • Applicants: Onshore applicants only
  • Category: Community Services

Job description

This is a full-time Support Worker job on a permanent relief team, helping people with learning disabilities live well at home near Dunedin.

The job is based near Dunedin, New Zealand, pays $25.08 to $30.43 an hour and runs at 40 hours a week. Shifts rotate through days, afternoons, evenings, awake nights, split shifts and weekends. The work covers daily routines, personal care, outings and record keeping.

The employer is accredited. It is ready to support AEWV visa sponsorship for candidates with the right experience and qualifications, and the job is approved at skill level 4. This one is for people already in New Zealand with work rights.

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Key responsibilities

  • Daily routines: shopping, cooking meals, household jobs
  • Personal care, given with respect and safety
  • Outings, community activities and building independence, choice and wellbeing
  • Support plans followed, accurate records kept

Requirements

  • Person-centred, respectful approach to people with learning disabilities
  • Good common sense; able to work independently
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, plus good computer skills
  • Support Worker / Caregiver / Healthcare Assistant experience in NZ, or a Certificate in Health & Wellbeing (Level 2 or higher)
  • Available for weekends and a range of shifts
  • Full New Zealand driver's licence: essential
  • Right to work in New Zealand

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