Private Session Facilitator - Wellington
Type: Fixed term
Hours: Full time
Location: Wellington
Business Group: Survivor Experience Services
Branch: Enterprise Partnerships
Salary: $63,561 - $84,951
The Survivor Experiences Service provides a forum in which survivors can share their experiences of abuse in care in a trauma-informed and culturally responsive setting in order to facilitate healing.
The Private Session Facilitator coordinates private sessions. They support Kaitakawaenga to hear the experiences of survivors through confidential and private face-to-face individual, group or online meetings, attending sessions throughout the motu as required, and ensuring a quality and consistent service for survivors.
This can include providing wellbeing support to survivors before, during and after their private session.
Experience working in a trauma informed manner, with personal resilience required due to the nature of the experiences heard from people who experienced abuse whilst in care as a child. Sensitive and disturbing stories will be shared by Survivors, whilst being supported to engage in the safe space created for this.
Full Driver's License necessary
Regular travel, sometimes for several days, across New Zealand
Advantage to be open to working in prison environment.
Applications close: 5pm, 3 September 2024
For more information please contact: Brenda.Joines@dia.govt.nz
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About Us
At the Department of Internal Affairs, the work we do makes New Zealand a better place for those born here, and those new New Zealanders who have chosen to call this country home.
About the Team
Kaua e rangiruatia te hāpai o te hoe; e kore tō tātou waka e ū ki uta
Do not lift the paddle out of unison or our canoe will never reach the shore
Enterprise Partnerships cover a range of entities, functions or institutions. Today these currently include the National Library, Archives New Zealand, Ministerial Services, and the Gambling Commission. Each ‘enterprise’ has its own unique kaupapa, and through its ‘partnership’ with Te Tari Taiwhenua, will be supported to achieve their goals. The nature of each partnership will depend on the goals and needs of the entity.
