Social Worker, Starship Community at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Te Toka Tumai Auckland, Auckland

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Nau mai, haere mai ki Starship Child Health!

An exciting opportunity exists for an enthusiastic Social Worker to join the Starship Community Team!  Are you:

• A social worker with experience working with children, young people and their families in a community setting?
• Able to thrive in a challenging environment where evidence-based practice, strengths in interdisciplinary practice, clinical reasoning, and decision-making skills are highly valued?
• Seeking an opportunity to continue in your professional growth and develop your career?
• Competent to respond to child safety and wellbeing concerns in a complex and dynamic multiagency context?
• Permanent role - Full-time (40 hours per week)

Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation

We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We are part of Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s national health service. 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.

Starship Community is an interdisciplinary team of professionals providing nursing, allied health, technical and cultural support to children, young people and their families living within the Auckland DHB area. We are looking for an experienced, motivated and dynamic social worker with a passion for working with children, their families and whanau.

Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity

Your focus will be providing social work support to children and their families and whanau who have high health and social needs in the community.

This position offers an ideal opportunity for you to develop or extend your social work expertise, as part of an interdisciplinary team. You will benefit from regular formal supervision, peer review, collegial support and active participation in education and in-service programmes.

This is a permanent full-time position working 40 hours per week Monday to Friday based out of Greenlane Clinical Centre. As the role is a community role, a full and clean NZ drivers licence is also required.

To view the position description, please click here

Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills

The successful applicant needs to be a NZ Registered Social Worker with a current Annual Practising Certificate. Previous experience working in a health setting and in child protection would be an advantage. Experience working with Maori and Pacific communities is desired. The ability to work autonomously in a multi-cultural environment is essential.

To speak with someone from the service around this exciting role, please contact Fiona Howie, Locality Lead - Maungarei on FHowie@adhb.govt.nz

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.

We offer:

• A competitive salary
• Access to professional development budget
• Supervision
• Partner benefits and discounts
• Free Te Reo classes 

For more information on what we offer, please click here.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

Please submit your application online, outlining your experience and motivation to apply to this role in your covering letter and CV quoting job reference ADHB16532.

To view details about our recruitment process, click here.

To apply please click 'apply now' below. If you have any queries about accessibility, or technical issues with the online process, please contact Honey Pillai, Recruitment Consultant at HPillai@adhb.govt.nz

Advertising Closes: 5 February 2023

For the largest health sector job board in New Zealand, visit www.kiwihealthjobs.com