House Leader

40 hours per week

$23.50 - $29.10 House Leader Allowance

Upper Hutt location

We have a home in Upper Hutt, with 2 young men and 1 woman ranging in age from 19 to 30. We're looking for a strong, friendly and organised House Leader, for a role that combines hands on support work with leadership of a new team. The role is full time although we could be flexible on this point for the right candidate.

The 3 flatmates have loving and supportive families, who continue to be very involved in their kids' lives, so as well as building trust with the flatmates, you'll need to build trust with families too. You will work closely with them to support the flatties to live their best lives.

You will enjoy being involved in their lives and seeing them actively exploring new opportunities in their home and neighbourhood. You'll need to have humour, warmth, good energy and the initiative to organise things that make life fun for these fabulous young people. They communicate in a variety of ways; gestures, some words, vocalisations, facial expressions, and some communication devices and tools. A key skill is being intuitive and patient, so you can really tune in to what's going on for each person and respond to them. This is very much about making this new house into their home for this next phase of their life after leaving their family home. With your help, these wonderful people will continue to lead good lives, enjoying and exploring whatever their neighbourhood has to offer and keeping connected with their whanau and friends. We have several opportunities covering days, evenings, weekends and wake over shifts.You need to be reliable, punctual, and ready to commit to this role.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have leadership skills with a can-do attitude.

• Have some experience supporting disabled people

• Be reliable, respectful and intuitive

• Figure out what brings them joy and do their best to make it happen

• Be adaptable to unique communication styles

• Have the initiative & motivation to work in partnership with each flatmate in creating daily, weekly to yearly personal goal plans

• Basic computer skills such as emails, internet searching and Word

• Full drivers license preferred

What the role offers:

- Ongoing development and study opportunities - earn while you learn! We can support you to achieve NZQA Health and Wellbeing qualifications.

• A meaningful, life changing career

• A fun vibrant workplace where every day is genuinely different

- Pay rates from $23.50 - $29.10 per hour

Apply Now if you have a positive personality, initiative, patience and the willingness to keep learning, and work in partnership with disabled people and their whanau to enable good lives. Spectrum Care is proudly an equal opportunity employer.

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