Description
Summary:
This House Leader role combines support work with engaging and motivating a support team to provide an efficient and effective service for individuals in a community home.
Highlights:
1. Lead and motivate a support team in a community home setting.
2. Support people to develop self-confidence and independence.
3. Engage in an active role including sports and community activities.
Full time - 40 hours per week
$23.95 - $29.10 + House Leader Allowance
Lower Hutt location
Our House Leader role combines support work and engages, motivates a team of a support team in the home. Working and gaining guidance from your Service Coordinator you would be supervising to ensure and efficient and effective successful service to people we support in a community home.
If you're interested in supporting people to develop self-confidence and independence, and live their lives of choice, lives like any other, in their own communities, then **we want to hear from you today!**
**Skills & Experience**
- Experience leading a team is greatly beneficial especially with the ability to coach and develop individuals
- Effective report writing skills
- Organising and allocating rosters
- Exposure to balancing general ledgers
- Ability to communicate effectively and supportively with the people you support,
- their families and your coordinator
- To be fit enough for an active role that engages anything between sports, community engagement, and recreational activities to personal cares
- Excellent, clear, understandable verbal and written English is a pre-requisite to be considered for this role
**The ideal candidate will have:**
- Experience supporting people with disabilities and/or challenging behaviours
- Reliability, Commitment, and Passion for working with people
- A driver's licence
- A relevant qualification
- The ability to use a computer effectively, including programs such as Word, Internet Explorer, and email
If you are a non-resident applying for this role you must meet the following INZ Level 3 skill requirements to be considered:
• Have worked in the care workforce for 3 years or more, and been paid at least the care workforce wage rate during that time, or• A relevant qualification on the New Zealand Qualifications and Credentials Framework (NZQCF) — this must be at least a level 4 qualification for a role at skill level 3, or a diploma for a role at skill level 2.
**Apply Now if you have a passion for working with people and want to make a difference!**
The Spectrum Group is dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We actively encourage and support applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds, including those with disabilities, neurodivergent individuals.