Eating Disorder Liaison Clinician - Kari Centre at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Te Toka Tumai Auckland, Auckland

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Excellent opportunity to work with people with a wide range of clinical presentations and at different stages of their recovery journey
• Role entails having oversight of eating disorder cases being referred and treated withing the service.
• Part-time (0.6 FTE), permanent role, working Monday to Friday and based at our Greenlane Clinic Centre (Role can be increased to 1 FTE with other clinical work)
• Join a highly dedicated team focused on ongoing service development and innovation.

Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity

This is a clinical role based at the Kari Centre, Outpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health service. The role entails having oversight of eating disorder cases being referred into and treated within the service. The Eating Disorder Liaison clinician will work as part of the MDT and hold a clinical case load working with children and young people with an eating disorder and their whanau.

The role involves liaison with primary care, Tupu Ora, Starship hospital, Auckland City Hospital and other relevant service providers. Another key part of this position includes consultation to Kari centre clinicians (particularly where presentations are complex with psychiatric co-morbidities) and having an active role in coaching, up skilling, supervising and developing clinicians in assessment and treatment of eating disorder cases.
 

Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills
With a strong commitment to a multi-disciplinary team approach and cross cultural clinical practice, we are looking for a New Zealand Registered Mental Health Nurse, Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker (eligible for registration), with a current Annual Practising Certificate who have previously worked with children and adolescents. A full and clean driver's licence is required.

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Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation
We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Starship Children’s Hospital, located in central Auckland.

We are part of Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s national health service. Te Whatu Ora leads the day-to-day running of the health system, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels.

We are committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing culturally safe care. We value role modelling manaakitanga as demonstrated by Ngāti Whātua in the gifting of their whenua on which our hospitals stand. We aspire to having a workforce reflective of the communities we serve and achieving equitable outcomes for all.

He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | Why you will enjoy working here
We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai Auckland.

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Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

Apply now at www.careers.adhb.govt.nz quoting job title and reference number AUC14742. Please attach a Cover Letter and your latest CV.

If you have any queries about this opportunity or accessibility or technical issues with the online process, please contact Suzanne Morgan, Recruitment Consultant at suzannemor@adhb.govt.nz or Ph: 021 461 532 to discuss how we can best support your application.

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