Job Description - Community Alcohol and Other Drug Services Clinician (WAI28650)Community Alcohol and Other Drug Services Clinician:WAI28650Te Kuuwaha o te Waiora, 135c Silverdale Road, Hillcrest80 hours per fortnightPermanent Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders.
Through integration and collaboration, we're building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whanau-centred care, and excellence.
Are you interested in working with a specialist service delivering high quality alcohol and other drug care.Are you wanting to work in a co-existing problems approach.Want to be part of exciting transformational change within the CADS Service.
About the RoleThis is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Alcohol & Other Drug Clinician, with a minimum of 2 years' experience, to work alongside our highly skilled multi-disciplinary team.
You will be conducting comprehensive alcohol and other drug assessments and developing collaborative recovery plans utilizing your range of therapeutic models that support your work with tangata whaiora and have a passion for group work.
Along with providing essential relapse prevention and counselling skills.
About the TeamCommunity Alcohol and other Drugs Service (CADS), Te Whatu Ora Waikato, provides support and services for Tangata whaiora and whanau with complex alcohol and other drug concerns.
Our CADS team works collaboratively with our Te Whatu Ora Waikato colleagues and across the Rohe to achieve results for our Tangata whaiora, while continuously learning and developing our own skills.
About you Competency with te ao Maori, tikanga, and te reo Maori or a commitment to starting your journey and taking ownership of your learning and growth.Experience in upholding Te Tiriti principals and frameworks, and the application of Matauranga Maori and Kaupapa Maori approaches, particularly as they apply in healthcare settings.Registered member of Dapaanz with a current practising certificate.Have a least 2 years' experience working within the alcohol and other drug sector as a clinician.Ability to successfully engage and empathise with families/whanau in a positive manner.Full clean driver's license.Legal right work in New Zealand.Ability to implement Te Tiriti O Waitangi in daily work.
Working for Health New ZealandHealth New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is 'the weaving of wellness'.
We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand.
The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work.
It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do.
Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.
Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us.
Skills are gained across many areas of our life, not just in formal employment.
If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the ad, but the experience was gained through whanau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your cover letter.We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Maori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.
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If the prospect of working with other dedicated clinicians excites you and you are a team player, who can use your own initiative ad embrace change, then apply now!
How to ApplyPlease click 'Apply online' or apply via our Waikato Careers Website by clicking All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal before 11:59pm on 19 January 2025.
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