Services:

• Family Works Northern
• Enliven Positive Ageing Services (formerly Homecare)
• Coactive Collaborative Disability Services
• Budgeting and Money Management Service
• Older Persons Advocacy and Liaison Service
• Connecting with Parishes
• Presbyterian Opportunity Shoppe
• The Foodbank at St David's

Strengthening Families Coordinators – Part Time Flexible Hours

Apply your coordination skills in a professional, supportive, flexible organisation creating a brighter future for children and their families.

Based in Avondale, Mt Roskill and Panmure

We’re looking for 3 Strengthening Family Coordinators to facilitate interagency collaboration and shared planning processes to enable the building of strong families and whanau. These stimulating roles encompass fostering government and community co-ordination with whanau, including promoting community education; supporting and encouraging collaborative case management; supporting Strengthening Families facilitators and case management meetings; as well as taking care of general administration and record keeping that supports the Local Management group.

For these new positions you will need to have excellent communication skills; experience in working with families, children and/or young people from various cultural backgrounds and group facilitation experience. An understanding of strength based frameworks, operations of central government and social service agencies and experience in working across sectors to produce positive results for whanau (family) are also important.

Own transport needed and a relevant graduate qualification is preferred.

If you believe you have the skills and experience to provide this valuable service please contact John Stone on 09 620 4750 or email lesliecentre@northern.familyworks.org.nz for an application pack and job description.

Applications close 12 noon Friday 5th September 2008.