Working Here
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Community Support Worker
The Community Support Worker (CSW) is part of the Community Support Services. The Community Support Services delivers a variety of supports across several WCM new bases in central wellington. Providing professional supports from a strength and empowerment-based perspective with manuhiri, and their whanau, who are experiencing a wide range of complex situations and social issues.
The Role
If you are looking for a new challenge, we have a great opportunity as a Community Support Worker working alongside our supportive Community Support Services Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT). You will find the work extremely rewarding because you’ll make a real difference in the lives of people using our services.
The Community Support Workers (CSW) purpose is to support manuhiri and whanau connected with Wellington City Mission to achieve their goals through a strength-based empowerment approach. To provide Duty Assessments, and brief interventions whilst also holding a caseload. The CSW will work alongside other members of the community support team, such as, addiction practitioners, social workers, financial mentors and therapists, to support manuhiri to implement plans that they have developed
You will be located at our Newtown office until we move to Whakamaru at the end of October ’24. This will allow you to be connected with the professional and clinical support of a multidisciplinary team and be at the heart of our service delivery.
About you
Our ideal candidate will have the following:
- Have experience of supporting individuals and whanau in the community that present with a variety of needs and complexities.
- Ideally have, or working towards a Level 4 Health and Wellbeing Qualification, or other have other relevant qualification.
- Have experience of working in the community.
- Knowledge of community resources and support networks.
- Be an enthusiastic and self-motivated person who can work easily alongside our existing multidisciplinary team and Financial Mentors.
- Can work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment is essential.
- Experience of working within a mental health and/or addiction community service and/or knowledge and understanding of harm reduction principles desirable
- Demonstrate your ability to build and maintain strong relationships and collaborate across the health and social service sector.
How to apply
Applicants will need to be living and eligible to work in New Zealand to be considered for this role. And have a full drivers license.
For a copy of the Position Description and Application Form please head to our website – https://wellingtoncitymission.org.nz/about/working-here/
If you would like further information regarding this role, please email: workwithus@wcm.org.nz
Please note: we may review applications before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as you are able. We reserve the right to withdraw the job advertisement at any time before our closing date.