{"id":8072,"date":"2021-07-12T03:39:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T03:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorecareers.emotedigital.com.au\/industry\/government-community-emergency-services\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:04:07","slug":"government-community-emergency-services","status":"publish","type":"ra-industry","link":"https:\/\/explorecareers.co.nz\/industry\/government-community-emergency-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Government, Community &#038; Emergency Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government, community and emergency services cover a vast array of specialised sectors that exist to support local communities in a number of ways.<\/p>\n<p>Every state in New Zealand has localised government departments with groups of employers who help individuals, groups and communities within the state in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>From helping individuals access benefits, healthcare and driving licences to develop policies that cover education, transport, healthcare, energy and mining, and many more!<\/p>\n<p>Community services can be not-for-profit or profit organisations that support, educate, advocate and guide individuals and groups. This might be anyone experiencing homelessness, mental health barriers, disability barriers or addiction support.<\/p>\n<p>Areas within community services include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Volunteering<\/li>\n<li>Youth Services and Child Protection<\/li>\n<li>Youth Justice<\/li>\n<li>Housing and Homelessness<\/li>\n<li>Probation Services and Offender Rehabilitation<\/li>\n<li>Adoption and Fostering Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Emergency services cover the groups who support our communities to keep them safe. This includes the police force, fire fighting services, ambulances and first-responders.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of all of these sectors within the industry is a desire to help others and work as part of a broader team to aid and support others positively and proactively.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the area of the industry you might be interested in, there is many key strengths and characteristics that will set you up nicely for success, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellent communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Strong team collaborator<\/li>\n<li>Adaptable and flexible to handle changing situations<\/li>\n<li>Superb problem-solving skills<\/li>\n<li>The ability to remain calm in a crisis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And this is just the beginning!<\/p>\n<p>Alongside specialised roles, the industry is supported by a robust system of support roles covering administration, marketing and communications, finance and accounting, business services and many more.<\/p>\n<p>If being part of an organisation and team that is driven towards a common goal of supporting, developing and building cohesive communities sounds like something you\u2019re interested in &#8211; this could be just the right industry to explore a career in for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8302,"template":"","meta":{"content-type":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ra-industry\/8072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ra-industry"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ra-industry"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}