Family Start Worker Aidmax Recruiting location Auckland.

Family Start Worker. 1x Six-Month Parental Leave Cover Opportunities. Rewarding family work opportunity. High needs families with newborns. Join a great team making a real difference.

About the role as a Registered Social Worker (RSW), this is a great opportunity to develop your career and make your mark within New Zealand’s largest Pacific health and social services organisation. We are keen to get in touch with RSWs who have the right blend of expertise and enthusiasm. This 40 hour per week position based in Henderson and is a special opportunity for a strengths based RSW looking for an exciting new role.

Family Start is a free service for parents and caregivers who are facing challenges with parenting. The Family Start Worker’s role is to support families to become more intentional with their parenting to improve their children’s overall social, education and health outcomes.

About you, you will have a real wish to make a difference in your community with young families and have the right expertise and have experience in working with Pacific. Key requirements will be registered or working towards social worker registration. Value the Family Start approach to working with families. Know how to access community resources for families. Computer literate. Culturally competent with Pacific. Have a full Drivers Licence.

About us a message from The Fono’s CEO - Tevita Funaki. Because you’re thinking about a career with The Fono Trust let me tell you why that could be a great idea.  When you become part of The Fono family you are sharing over 30 years of heritage as the Pacific organisation proven to have the power to generate substantial improvements for Pacific peoples in health and wellbeing right across Auckland.

As an employee you become an important part of FonoCare – our unique Integrated Model of Care.  It is The Fono’s lifeforce and guides us all in our commitment to equity in outcomes. What our Integrated Model of Care can achieve inspires us every day when we connect with the communities and families we serve.

Seeing how The Fono has grown through innovative thinking that doesn’t accept it can’t be done - It can, and we’ve proved it time and time again. Taking personal inspiration from the past and what our people at The Fono are achieving every day through our services.

FonoCare - The Fono Integrated model of Care is an expanding range of high-quality primary health, mental health, dental services, public health, health support, whanau ora, social services including the Feleoko family support/food bank to Pasifika and all who need our care. The Fono also has the Oceania Career Academy as a service providing, as a NZQA Category One tertiary institution, highly successful training and transitions to employment.

We lead the way in developing partnerships with the community and other providers. The term "fono" in our name is particularly suitable for our identity as its meaning reflects meetings between people. And that’s what we offer the people we serve and the people who join The Fono family as employees or contractors.

With links into all areas of Pasifika community life we have a unique ability to make our high quality, affordable health and social services conveniently available across our vibrant and multicultural city from eight locations and through outreach services. For more on The Fono see www.thefono.org