Advanced Clinician - Social Worker at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Te Toka Tumai Auckland, Auckland 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, Social Worker to join our team working in the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU). This role is permanent, .9 FTE role.
The Social Work Advanced Clinician will provide a high level of specialist clinical practice and trauma informed intervention. They will demonstrate their clinical expertise in delivering evidence-based practice and clearly articulate the Social Work role to the wider multi-disciplinary team. This is a key support role at a significant time in the life of the patient and whanau. 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 whanau centred interventions.
The Advanced Clinician will provide specialist training regarding trauma informed practice for new Social Workers. In addition, it will be important that the Advanced Clinician can articulate and 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 strengthening regional collaboration, implementing evidence-based service improvement and undertaking research and education. The ability to work independently and prioritise and manage 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.
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 An understanding and competence in Tikanga Maori A full, clean class 1 driver's licence. Preferred: Minimum of six years of experience in Health Social Work 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 Advertising closes: Friday 27th September, 11:59 pm (New Zealand standard time).
To apply please click on the 'Apply' tab below and submit your application online attaching your updated CV and Covering Letter.
If you have any queries about accessibility, or technical issues with the online process, please contact Vaidehi Sharma – Recruitment Consultant at ****** quoting ref #ADHB20847 to discuss how we can best support your application.
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