Community Housing Support Worker - with Great Benefits

Community Housing Support Worker 

• 1x Fixed Term Contract
• Work Phone & Laptop 
• Training & Development + EAP Service

Do you have the passion to support and work alongside people in their current permanent housing situation?

Do you have the heart to make a difference in people’s lives by helping them develop their skills and confidence to be independent and self-supporting in the future?

Do you have the connection with community-based support services that can provide planned holistic support to people with wide variety of needs?

If you answered yes to all these questions, then you are who we are looking for.

About Lifewise | Mō Lifewise

• Lifewise is a New Zealand non-for-profit organisation that works interdependently with Airedale Property Trust and the Methodist Mission Northern. Across The Three Trusts we have over 400 employees who provide a broad range of social services in Auckland and Rotorua.
• We are also an Auckland-based community social development organisation tracing back its roots over 150 years as part of Methodist Church in New Zealand (Te Haahi Weteriana O Aotearoa). We turn lives around for good and are working towards a society where everyone counts, where everyone feels that they belong and where everyone has a contribution to make, and this is our purpose. 

 About the role | Mō te tūranga

• As the Community Housing Support Worker, you are expected to uncover and unleash the strengths of the people you are working with. Your interpersonal skills are crucial to form positive and professional partnerships with internal and external stakeholders including MSD, MHUD, ADHB and social housing providers, Kainga Ora, landlords, moteliers and building managers.

Duties | Mahi

• Support with daily tasks and interventions so that people may learn, or improve, their practical life skills (e.g. budgeting, paying bills, planning meals etc.
• Providing information and advice on welfare rights, tenancy rights and responsibilities, and supporting people to develop self-advocacy and assertiveness skills in these areas.
• Deliver culturally responsive services, which incorporate peoples spiritual, cultural and holistic needs, that are whanau led, strengths based, and align with the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Skills & Experience | Pukenga & wheako

• Proven ability to manage a mixed caseload, preferably in a community based setting
• Must have excellent reporting and excel in oral and written communication skills.
• Relevant qualification or experience (including lived experience) in one of the following fields:  social work, mental health, social housing, addictions, support work, peer or consumer advisor; with an ability to demonstrate practical transferable skills.
• Knowledge or understanding of motivational interviewing, harm reduction and or trauma informed care
• MUST HAVE OWN VEHICLE & NZ FULL DRIVER'S LICENSE!

For a confidential chat, you may call Soli Taimalie, Community Housing Support Team Leader on 021 917 460. 

This is an urgent position, application will close as soon as the most suitable candidate is identified.