Maxine Moana Butler

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• This Role is to supervise the operation of the Men's Residential facility and ensure the safety of all our Whaiora by conducting regular safety checks, addressing potential hazards, and enforcing Odyssey House's policies.
• Develop a strong rapport with our whaiora by consistently demonstrating respect, understanding, and genuine concern for their wellbeing. We have established trusting relationships with our whaiora and their whanau through empathetic communication and active listening.
• Support our whaiora to manage and reach individual goals, independent progression, and social skills.
• Document our whaiora's progress and activities in accordance with agency policies and procedures.
• Collaborated with our multi-clinical team and other professionals to plan and coordinate care for clients, i.e., Therapists, Keyworkers, Probation, etc
• Facilitated group sessions to assist our whaiora in developing coping skills and setting realistic goals to promote positive change.
• Educating our whaiora about Te Tiriti O Waitangi and how we uphold and apply this in our workspace.
• Supervise /Co-facilitate group activities in Health and wellbeing, educational classes to ensure our whaiora develop life skills, i.e. cooking, sewing, shopping, budgeting, etc
• Transport and supervise our whaiora to appointments, shopping venues and entertainment events according to their schedule and probation conditions.
• Providing crisis intervention practice when necessary, effectively de-escalating challenging situations while maintaining our whaiora's dignity and safety, minimising all risks.
• Ensure all medications are allocated and administrated by the organisation's medication policy.
• Safeguard their wellbeing by monitoring health conditions, administering medications, reporting changes to appropriate medical professionals, and coordinating appointments for our whaiora with healthcare providers.
• Audit all medication errors for incident reports and sort and dispose of expired/unused medication to be returned to the pharmacy.
• Complete on-site drug testing and documentation of lab results recorded.
• Ensuring our whaiora's Privacy and confidentiality are upheld.

Administration Responsibilities:

• Developed strong communication channels between day and night shifts, facilitating seamless handovers at the beginning and end of each shift and ensuring relevant information was passed on to incoming staff.
• Participated in continuous improvement efforts, identifying areas for potential enhancements within night shift operations based on data analysis and observation. Streamlined documentation processes by implementing efficient record-keeping strategies that improved the accuracy of information shared between team members.
• Mentored new support workers by providing guidance, sharing best practices, and modelling effective practice techniques.
• Assisted in training new employees on policies, procedures, and best practices for their respective roles within the night shift team.
• Resolved conflicts among team members in a timely manner, promoting a cohesive and efficient working environment.
• Participates in professional development and training opportunities to enhance clinical skills.
• Support and ensure the security of the Women's facility and Youth Unit overnight.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• To Build and maintain professional working relationships with all Residential, Administration, and Clinical services
• Ability to build strong, respectful relationships.
• To communicate clear expectations and boundaries whilst working with Residents
• Complete tasks set out by team leaders and staff in a professional manner and communicate any issues directly during your shift.
• Assisting clients in their social, emotional, and physical daily life skills development
• Recognizing potentially dangerous situations and dealing with them calmly and efficiently.
• Proficiency with managing challenging behaviours, NVCI

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Ability to work with adolescent males who presenting Challenging behaviours who are at risk of offending and who are transitioning back into the community
• Demonstrates and understands the Therapeutic community model in a Residential treatment
• Communicates clear expectations and boundaries whilst working with Residents
• Plan, develop and facilitate Residential programs activities and to complete and Evaluations and documentations accurately.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Key workers Role: To liaison with the social worker
• Ability to work with adolescent males who present challenging and harmful sexual behaviours and to build strong, respectful relationships with the youth
• Demonstrates and understands the Therapeutic community model of Residential treatment
• To assist our school team with behaviour management in the classroom
• Plan and facilitate Residential programs activities and to complete Evaluations and documentations accurately
• Follow all youth intervention plans
• To manage effectively all the needs of the youth, particularly in terms of personal hygiene, diet and health including recreation and life skills
• Experience in working collaboratively in a multi-skilled team, Build and maintain professional working relationships with other Residential Teams, Administration, Clinical and Team leaders
• Escort outings in the community.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Key worker Role

Tasks and Responsibilities

Key worker's Role

• Personal Training Students
• Group Session's (Tutoring)
• Evaluated staff performance and provided coaching to address inefficiencies.
• Maintained overall safe work environment with employee training programs and enforcement of safety procedures.
• Facilitated successful completion of projects from concept to launch.
• Provided exceptional customer service by promptly addressing inquiries, ensuring a high level of satisfaction among clientele.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Evaluated existing policies within the sports program, recommending improvements for efficiency and effectiveness where necessary.
• Established strong communication channels between players, coaches, administrators, sponsors, and media representatives.
• Mentored junior staff members on best practices in sports management, fostering a culture of professional growth within the organization.
• Streamlined administrative processes to reduce workload for coaching staff while maintaining compliance with league regulations.
• Managed budgets for sports programs, ensuring proper allocation of funds for equipment and facilities.
• Maintained a safe and functional facility by scheduling regular maintenance and repairs as needed.
• Increased team performance by implementing effective training programs and strategies.