Other professions

We work with many of New Zealand's most vulnerable children and young people and need to operate with compassion, courage and professionalism.  If you're not a social worker, but are passionate about seeing children and young people succeed, we have a great variety of other roles at Child, Youth and Family.

We have:

  • Approximately 3,000 employees
  • 58 local offices supported by four regional offices
  • Four care and protection residential facilities
  • Three youth justice residential facilities (with a fourth one currently under construction)
  • A national contact centre

Some of our work areas include:

  • support services who develop and drive support for social workers, caregivers and families
  • residential services which includes youth workers and clinical practitioners
  • advisors who help develop and drive our world-leading social work practice
  • specialist services which includes disability specialists, psychologists and therapists
  • corporate services which includes human resources, information technology and finance.