Mental Health Support Worker / Kaimahi Tautoko Hauora Hinengaro at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley, Kenepuru Hospital/Porirua

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora - Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District

Location: Kenepuru Hospital

Service:  Regional Rangatahi Adolescent Inpatient Service (RRAIS)

Contract:  Full time, rostered and rotating shifts.

Salary:  As per MECA

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role

You will be joining a service that is committed to high standards of practice. 

Mental Health Support Workers work closely alongside the nurses supporting and providing support for the rangatahi working towards their recovery.   You will support nurses with delivery of patient care assistance, TDP (therapeutic day programs) and activities.  This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills on a shift by shift basis.  The focus is on delivering individualised, evidence based and multi-disciplinary interventions within an inpatient setting, that are holistic, recovery focused, and promote wellbeing and independence. 

Mō tō mātou rōpū - About our team

This is an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Support Worker to join our multi-disciplinary team at the Regional Rangatahi Adolescent Inpatient Service (RRAIS), based at Kenepuru Hospital. 

The Rangatahi Unit is a 12 bedded mental health acute unit that provides a service for adolescents who are experiencing an acute episode of mental illness.  RRAIS is one of three adolescent inpatient services in New Zealand. It is a regional service for the lower North Island providing for adolescents from the Wellington region up to and including Gisborne. 

We are a dynamic and enthusiastic team with a passion for providing specialist assessment and treatment to rangatahi aged 13 to 17 years inclusive and their whanau. You will fit into a strong team culture of collaborative practice, openness, humour, and respect across all our disciplines. 

Moū - About you

We are seeking mental health support workers who are enthusiastic, innovative, passionate and committed to working alongside youth and their whanau.

We want to hear from you if:

• You feel you can make a difference 
• You have lots of energy and an ability to think on your feet
• You want a job that provides variety and no two days are the same.
• You want to be paid to have fun whilst supporting our most vulnerable youth on their recovery journey

Are you a mental health support worker who has the following:

• Holds a relevant Level 4 mental health support worker certificate. 
• Meet police vetting requirements
• A full NZ driving licence.
• Some experience in mental health

E pā ana ki a tatou - About us

Here at Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District we embrace diversity and welcome applications from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disability and religions. A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and serve our community.

Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

To find out more about us click on the following links:

Capital and Coast

Hutt Valley

Mental Health, Addiction and Intellectual Disability Service

Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to apply

Click the apply now button to send your application directly to us. For further information on this role please email recruitment@ccdhb.org.nz and indicate the job title and vacancy number (AH050-23) in the subject line.

Interviews will be conducted while vacancy is advertised. 

Your safety and that of our patients is important to us. It is our expectation that you will be fully vaccinated against COVID 19, having received two doses of an approved COVID 19 vaccination.

Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai
By joining together we will succeed