Behavioural Support Worker
Visa sponsorship
Healthcare · Whanganui, New Zealand · Full-Time · $24.68 - $30.13/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored
In Whanganui, people with complex behavioural and medical needs are supported by Support Workers who help them handle overwhelming emotions and health-related difficulties, keep everyone safe and encourage positive behaviour. The work also helps people grow their independence and pick up skills for daily living.
No background in the health and disability sector is necessary, but a real wish to build a career as a Support Worker and a positive attitude count for a lot. The employer is accredited under the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) scheme, which is the route employer sponsorship follows.
Read each requirement slowly and match it with a real example from your own work before you apply.
Kenyan applicants with caring or community experience, even unpaid, should show it plainly on the CV, along with your driving licence status. Make a support worker CV with Build AI CV.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist people with complex behavioural and medical needs to manage overwhelming emotions and health-related challenges
- Promote safety and positive behaviour
- Support independence and the learning of daily-living skills
- Help with tasks that suit each person's ability, such as transport, employment, finances, meals, shopping, cleaning, showering and medication
- Work daytime, evening, overnight and weekend shifts, managing risk and responding well in challenging situations
Requirements & Eligibility
- Experience managing challenging behaviours is preferred
- Able to work with behaviours that can challenge
- Available for flexible shifts, weekends and wakeover shifts included
- Comfortable and proficient with computers and tablets every day
- Strong written and verbal communication, and physically fit enough to give support
- A Full NZ driver's license
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Visa guide: The AEWV from Kenya: a Complete Guide