Your Way | Kia Roha
Why consider a career with Your Way | Kia Roha?
Join an organisation where your work truly matters. At Your Way | Kia Roha, you’ll be part of a team dedicated to empowering disabled people to thrive and live the lives they choose in their communities. We offer a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusiveness, ensuring a positive culture for people to work in. We particularly encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability or who are close family members of people with disabilities, recognising the unique insights and perspectives they bring to our mission.
Working with us means being part of meaningful change – from providing vital support services and equipment to delivering trusted information and advocacy. Every role contributes to creating opportunities for disabled people to make and be in control of their own life choices, continuing a legacy of impact that spans over four decades.
Our Values
Our five mātāpono | values guide everything we do:
Rangatiratanga | Self-leadership
Choice and control over decisions builds on the mana of every individual.
Manawatoa | Courageous
Innovative, aspirational, and bold in our actions.
Whanaungatanga | Connection
Relationships matter, we work together with whānau and others.
Kotahitanga | Inclusion
Everyone is included and respected for who they are.
Kaitiakitanga | Guardianship
Sustain and respect the mauri | life force of those we work with.
About Your Way | Kia Roha
Your Way | Kia Roha is a charitable trust that has been creating opportunities for disabled people for over 40 years. Our organisation began in 1979 as the Disabled Living Centre (Waikato) Trust Inc. In December 2022, we proudly unveiled our new name, Your Way | Kia Roha, whilst still acknowledging the legacy of our long-standing brands and their histories.
Everything we do supports our vision of ‘Disabled people thriving, living the lives they choose in their communities’. We provide comprehensive disability support services throughout New Zealand, including connections and funding support in five regions, autism information and resources through Altogether Autism, free hearing therapy services, mobility equipment through Mobility Centre, and educational workshops and learning opportunities.
Your Way | Kia Roha is a charitable trust offering information, support, and equipment to enable disabled people to thrive, living the lives they choose in their communities. With services spread throughout New Zealand and multiple office locations, we continue to grow our impact whilst staying true to our tuāpapa | foundations.
