MHAHT Clinician at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Whanganui, Manawatu / Whanganui

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

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As one of Aotearoa's largest employers of the health and disability workforce and a leader across the sector, Te Whatu Ora has and continues to have an obligation to ensure both the safety and wellbeing of its staff and patients. 

Te Whatu Ora has an expectation that all new staff will be up to date with their vaccinations before they join Te Whatu Ora. 

Mental Health Assessment and Home Treatment Team (MHAHT)
Community Mental Health and Addiction Services (CMHAS)
Whanganui Hospital

• 32 hours per week
• Permanent
• Affordable living
• Friendly team

Our friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary wider Community Mental Health and Addiction team are seeking a New Zealand clinician to work with our Mental Health Assessment and Home Treatment team.  This is an opportunity for you to develop and share your acute clinical experience in a recovery focused environment.

Are you a registered health professional with experience in acute community mental health and addictions healthcare? Are you looking for variety in your working life, no two days the same?  Are you wanting an opportunity to work with a great team who are supportive and professional?  Would you like a work life balance?  Are you a person who places tangata whaiora at the centre of your care philosophy?   If you answer yes to any of these questions, we would like to hear from you.

The Mental Health Assessment and Home Treatment Team works to provide mental health crisis phone triage, urgent mental health assessment, crisis resolution intervention, and the delivery of intensive short term home treatment for a defined group of service user/tangata whaiora to support community based treatment and care.  This position provides you with the opportunity to work on a variety of duties as and when you are able.

To be successful in this position you will:

• A registered health professional with a minimum of three years post graduate clinical experience working in acute mental health and community mental health services is desirable

• be a duly authorised officer or willing to complete the training

• hold a current New Zealand practicing certificate

• be able to apply comprehensive assessments skills and motivational skills that are culturally safe and partnership focused

• be a provider of educational and community information that is supportive of the needs to the service users/tangata whaiora and their family/whanau

• have a compassionate and enthusiastic understanding for mental health well-being and ability to deliver interventions that is reflective of the Let's Get Real seven real skills

For more information, please contact  Recruitment Coordinator on jobs@wdhb.org.nz or (06) 348 8911 

Applications close:  16 February 2023
Vacancy:  01-MHAT-5778

Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible and before the closing date – Whanganui Hospital will review applications received and interview suitable candidates following application.