Support Worker
Onshore applicants only
Visa sponsorship
Community Services · Dunedin, New Zealand · Full-Time · $25.08 - $30.43/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored · Applicants: Onshore applicants only
Straight to it. A community living trust near Dunedin, New Zealand is hiring Support Workers for its Permanent Relief Team. It is full-time work, 40 hours a week, supporting people with learning disabilities in residential homes.
No two weeks look the same. Your roster can move between day, afternoon and evening work, awake nights, split shifts and weekends. The aim is simple: help people live independent, fulfilling lives in a safe, warm home, with person-centred care, inclusion and community ties guiding the work.
Visa facts, plainly put. As an accredited employer, the trust is open to sponsoring AEWV applications from people with the right experience and qualifications, and the job sits at skill level 4. It is open to people already in New Zealand with work rights.
Your English CV should do the talking, so make your caregiving jobs, the personal care you have done, any health and wellbeing certificate and your licence easy to find. Put together a no-nonsense relief carer CV with Build AI CV and apply.
Key Responsibilities
- Back up daily routines like shopping
- Help with cooking and jobs around the house
- Give personal care with respect, safely
- Get stuck in with community activities and outings
- Push for independence, choice and wellbeing
- Stick to support plans and keep proper records
Requirements & Eligibility
- Respectful, person-centred support of people living with learning disabilities
- Solid common sense
- Can get on with the job independently
- Communicates well, with strong interpersonal skills
- Comfortable on a computer, with good skills
- NZ experience in Support Worker, Caregiver or Healthcare Assistant work, or a Certificate in Health & Wellbeing at Level 2 or up
- Available at weekends
- Happy to take on a variety of shifts
- A full driver's licence for New Zealand is essential
- Legal right to work in New Zealand
Apply: Apply by email · WhatsApp
Visa guide: AEWV Guide for South Africans