Advanced Clinician or Senior Social Worker – CVICU

• Join our high performing multidisciplinary team
• Continuous professional development opportunities available

Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity

Te Toka Tumai – Auckland City Hospital have an excellent opportunity available for an Advanced Clinician, or Senior Social Worker (depending on experience) to join our team working in the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) – this role is permanent, .9 FTE role – 72 hours per fortnight.

You will provide a high level of specialist clinical practice and trauma informed intervention, demonstrating your expertise in delivering evidence-based practice. You will be able to clearly articulate the role of a Social Worker to the wider multi-disciplinary team.

This is a key support role at a significant time in the life of the patient and whānau. In this area, Social work practice is highly responsive to each patient’s unique needs and requires a high level of specialist knowledge. Additional competencies include excellent advocacy skills, grief counselling and the ability to think critically and develop patient and whānau centred interventions.

It will be important that you can provide training to the wider multi-disciplinary team, as and when required. The ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team is essential. A passion for fostering engagement with Tangata Whenua is a requirement of this role.

This newly established role offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to the Social Work profession by implementing evidence-based service improvement. The ability to work independently and prioritise workload demands is essential. Regular supervision and continuing professional development opportunities will be provided along with regular support from your Practice Supervisor and Social Work Clinical Lead.

Please indicate via your cover letter whether you are applying for the Advanced Clinician or Senior Social Worker role.

For further information about the role, please contact Kristy Martin, Clinical Lead Mob: 021 570 628 or e-mail: kristy@adhb.govt.nz

PD - Advanced Clinician

PD – Senior Social Woker

Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills

As the ideal candidate for this role, you have the following skills and attributes:

Required:

• A recognised Social Work qualification with full registration with the New Zealand Social Workers’ Registration Board and a current Annual Practising Certificate
• Excellent psycho-social assessment and intervention skills
• Well-developed communication skills
• An understanding and competence in Tikanga Māori
• A full, clean class 1 driver’s licence
• The service operates an after-hours, on-call service 7 days per week. Therefore, the ability to work outside of regular work hours, including weekends is required.

Preferred:

• Minimum of four years of experience in Health Social Work for Senior Social Work role, minimum of six years for the Advanced Clinician Social Work role
• Experience working with grief and loss
• Experience in multi-disciplinary working
• Strong cultural knowledge and a capacity to work effectively alongside our diverse communities
• Experience in service development and managing projects aligned with improving patient services

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.

For more information on what we offer, please click here

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

Advertising closes: Sunday 24 November 2024 11:59 pm (New Zealand standard time).

Please submit your application online, outlining your experience and motivation to apply to this role. Your cover letter will be a key part of our assessment process, so please highlight how your experience relates to the role and to the competencies listed in the position description.

Click here to view details about our recruitment process

If you have any queries about accessibility, or technical issues with the online process, please contact Vaidehi Sharma - Recruitment Consultant at vaidehi.sharma@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz quoting ref: ADHB20847 to discuss how we can best support your application.

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