In Laravel, how can I access data from a pivot table?

Maybe I'm implementing wrong. Maybe I'm doing things I'm not supposed to do, but conceptually I think I'm okay.

I have two models, one is Users, other is Communities, and since it is a many to many relationship I need an intermediate table, Laravel calls them a pivot table. According to Laravel recommendations it is named communities_users

Normally, the pivot tables only contain the id's to the main tables. But I need a bit more data. Check this image, the migrations are done to match this diagram:

Here I have a role in the pivot table. Lets say a user belongs to two communities, one as community's president, other as a member.

Of course the president will have more capabilities than the member, for example, he can accept a pending person to become a member person, or he can promote a member to a deputy status or so...

Now lets say I want to get the names of the people with deputy role on a given community. I can easily do that using the Query Builder, by joining the three tables and applying where('communities_users.role', 'deputy'),

Now, what if I want to use the ORM and get the whole User model?

I'd like to have a function on the Community so it gives me the users of a given role, maybe:

public function users($role) {
    ...
}

So I can do things like:

$community = Community::find($id);
foreach ($community->users('deputy') as user) {
    ...
    echo user->name; // or whatever
    ...
}

Is it possible? How?