Access Community Health

Support Worker - Murchison

Access Community Health  •  Onsite  •  12 hours ago
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Job Description

Looking for a role that works around your life?

Whether you’re balancing study, family, or other commitments, we may be able to accommodate your availability based on the care needs in our community.

You’ll support tāngata with their individual care needs and daily living activities — no qualifications or prior experience required. Your role is to provide safe, respectful, person centered support in people’s homes, including being mindful of what matters to them, their culture, values, beliefs, routines, and boundaries.

  • Comprehensive paid training to set you up for success
  • Flexible hours We’ll do our best to align your schedule with the needs of the people we support
  • Weekend shifts available (+$1.00 extra per hour)
  • Paid travel time and mileage —When you travel for work, we make sure you’re compensated fairly — including paid travel time and mileage for longer trips. Full details will be shared during onboarding.

This is a great opportunity to gain valuable experience in the health and wellbeing sector while keeping your work-life balance in check.

Whakangungu | Training

Paid training! Our Kaiāwhina Skills Framework training takes place during your first two–four weeks of employment and includes:

  • Support through structured induction, ongoing training, refreshers, and clear development pathways.
  • Online self-directed learning
  • Working alongside a buddy trainer

Mōhou Ake | About You

  • Love working with people and helping them thrive
  • Intuitive and responsive to people’s needs
  • Committed to culturally safe, respectful support for people from all backgrounds
  • Willing to learn, reflect, and adapt your approach to what matters to each person
  • Own a smartphone
  • Have the right to work in New Zealand
  • Full/restricted driver’s license

He aha ai mātou? | Why Us

  • Flexible hours – mornings, evenings, weekends
  • $24.33 - $30.27 plus weekend allowances
  • A clear career pathway for Kaiāwhina | Support Workers
  • Exclusive Spark Mobile Plan: Endless data (40GB at max speed), unlimited NZ/AU calls & texts, hotspot access, voicemail for just $24.15/month

Access Community Health | Uru Ātea’s mission is to create a better day, every day for thousands of people throughout Aotearoa, helping them live independently in their own homes and communities. Uru Ātea means “to enter space”—our promise to deliver services wherever our clients need us.

Access Community Health

About Access Community Health

Access is one of New Zealand’s leading in-home health care providers, specialising in home care and support, disability support, specialised nursing, ACC injury management and rehabilitation. We work with the Ministry of Health, DHBs and ACC to care for around 40,000 people nationwide and have been trusted by New Zealanders to provide care in the community for 100 years.

Access is dedicated to giving you the care and support you need to live independently in your home and community.

Our skilled team of nurses, support workers and allied health professionals provide a range of services delivered to your home, including: personal care, household assistance, fully qualified nursing services, palliative care and carer relief.

Our services cater for people who are either living with a disability, rehabilitating following an accident or injury (one of only four national providers of homebased care for ACC), recovering from serious illness or surgery, over 65 and requiring home healthcare, suffering from a long-term condition, in the final stages of life, private carers needing relief or requiring Individualised Funding Services.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Lower Hutt, NZ
Year Founded
1925
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