Team Leader
NZCare Disability Taranaki is looking for a Team Leader to work rostered 24/7 shifts in a service supporting someone with a disability.
Summary about this job
Aged & Disability Support
Company: Healthcare Holdings of New Zealand Ltd
Location: Taranaki
Work type: Full Time
Salary: n\a
Phone: +64-3-436-5092
Fax: +64-3-365-2480
E-mail: n\a
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Detail information about job Team Leader. Terms and conditions vacancy
- Have you got great people skills?
- Make a real difference in someone's life
- Full-time, permanent (rostered and rotating 24/7)
Team Leader - High & Complex Disability Services, Taranaki
- Have you got great people skills?
- Make a real difference in someone's life
- Full-time, permanent (rostered and rotating 24/7)
NZCare Disability Taranaki is looking for a Team Leader to work rostered 24/7 shifts in a service supporting someone with a disability to live an independent life.
You'll be a motivated, creative individual who is passionate about providing quality support, and identifying with this person's individual needs. Together with the Service Manager you'll have oversight of the Disability Support Workers working alongside this person carrying out everyday tasks from household chores to pursuing hobbies and interests, and accessing the community.
The person we're supporting is looking for someone who can understand what is important to them and assist them to achieve their personal goals and aspirations.
What does a Team Leader do?
A Team Leader works within a Support Worker team to deliver quality support to people with disabilities, assisting them in their daily living needs. Working collaboratively with a Service Manager, they are responsible for overseeing the effective day-to-day support provided in the service. These are hands-on roles encompassing personal cares, cooking, general household duties and leisure activities at home and in the community.
What skills do I need?
- Experience supporting a person with high and complex needs (preferable but not essential as training is provided)
- Experience in supporting disabled people of all ages with high and complex needs is highly desirable although full training is provided
- Strong leadership skills, and the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of people including family, community, and professional groups
- The ability to work a rotating shift roster
- A reasonable level of physical fitness
- Patience, adaptability and a passion for improving the lives of others
- Minimum Level 3 NZ Certificate, Health & Wellbeing, or equivalent is desirable
- I.T skills and the ability to work with both manual and computerised record keeping
Working for Us
NZCare Disability is committed to our employees. We are proud to employ and train the best people in all areas of our organisation and we enjoy a vast degree of diversity within our staff teams. We provide a career pathway for staff through the learning and development framework with NZQA approved courses and we are supportive of ongoing training. We are a part of Healthcare NZ who employ over 7000 staff nationwide.
NZCare Disability is committed to ensuring the good health and wellbeing of its staff and the people they support by operating a smoke-free environment.
Mēnā he tangata ngākaunui ana koe ki te tautoko i ngā momo tāngata, tēnā pea, kei konei he tūranga mōu.Tukua mai tō tono ki NZCare.
Healthcare of New Zealand was voted fourth in New Zealand's Top 20 Most Attractive Employers for 2018.
To apply for this job, please go to our careers site https://careers.healthcarenz.co.nz/home and enter the job code 2423SK.
Applications close on Sunday, 29 July 2018.