Health Care Assistant - Rainbow Place
Healthcare Assistant
Permanent, 48 hours per fortnight
Our Rainbow Place team are proud to be the only Hospice in New Zealand offering paediatric care services supporting children and young people aged 0-18 years, living with life limiting/threatening conditions and their whaanau.
We support approximately 40 families whose children may have transplants, seizure disorders or rare illnesses needing acute care.
Day to day as our Healthcare Assistant, you will work alongside our nurses to provide respite for whanau in our inpatient unit and in the community. You will be offering personal care, play therapy and other enrichment activities. We also have a recreation programme which includes parent/caregiver morning teas and our sibling programme which you will help facilitate.
We develop strong relationships with our Rainbow Place whaanau as we are in their lives for a long time. It does take a certain type of maturity to do this mahi and we are looking for someone with plenty of life and laughter for our families to connect to.
We’re looking for someone with:
- Experience caring for tamariki
- Health and Wellbeing Certificate or similar
- Flexibility to work across a roster Monday to Friday
- A sense of fun and a positive attitude
- Resiliency and emotional maturity
- A current full New Zealand driver’s license
Have some of the above but not all? Want to know more? Contact Sarah Clunie, our Nurse Manager, on 027 8395462 or [email protected]. A copy of the position description can be found on our careers page at http://www.hospicewaikato.org.nz/.
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The successful applicant will be required to undertake pre-employment health screening (including drug testing) and complete a criminal records check, the results of which must be to Hospice Waikato’s satisfaction. Applicants must have the right to work in NZ.
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