New Graduate Community Social Worker - Franklin Locality, Community Health Service at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Counties Manukau, Auckland Part Time 0.6 FTE, Permanent
Remuneration as per PSA Allied Health MECA guidelines - Step 1 Core Salary Scale
Counties Manukau District is at the forefront of innovative health delivery, serving New Zealand's most culturally diverse population. It is this diversity that offers unique opportunities for health professionals on both a personal and professional level. We provide a range of community-based services with a focus on quality client care utilising an interdisciplinary approach with allied health and nursing.
We have an exciting opportunity for a New Graduate Social Worker to join our friendly team based at Franklin Locality - Pukekohe Hospital. This role will focus on providing Social Work intervention to the inpatient Rehabilitation and Care Ward for Older Adults and supporting the wider Social Work community service, to meet referral demand across all localities.
In this position, you will enjoy a diverse range of clinical presentations helping you develop your knowledge and expertise in Social Work Intervention and practice. You will work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team with a restorative approach to patient and family care. Your skill base will be broad and holistic with problem solving as a key strength. You'll be solving real life challenges on a daily basis, changing for the better the lives of many in our community. Ideally, you will be well versed with what the community has to offer our clients. You will have the support of the interdisciplinary team including Advanced Clinician for Social Work and access to ongoing professional development opportunities across the Counties Manukau District. You will have access to regular supervision as per your clinical requirements.
If you enjoy variety, new challenges, working in a multicultural setting and being part of an interdisciplinary community team then we look forward to hearing from you.
Essential:
NZ Registered Social Worker with current annual practising certificate
Passion for working with patients and whanau to improve health outcomes
Excellent communication skills and ability to work within a team
IT and Telehealth experience
Full, clean driver's license
Advanced skills and confidence in completing Social Work Psychosocial assessments and intervention
Culturally safe practice and commitment to reducing inequity
Ability to work autonomously
Please note that this service operates over 7 days per week. How this may work for you as an individual can be discussed in more detail at the interview stage.
Please apply online at http://www.countieshealthjobs.com or to view the job description, click here.
For more information please contact Amy Lin in the Recruitment Centre on 09 276 0044 ext 58680 or ****** .
Job Number: CMH202413959
Applications Close: 06 December 2024
At Counties Manukau Health people and their lives matter to us. We are a values-based and inclusive organisation that is committed to delivering the best health outcomes for our community. To help us achieve this we need a workforce that reflects the population we serve. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds who share our values and have a passion to work in our community and would greatly value seeing applicants from our Maori and Pacific communities. We are also committed to our Disability Strategy, which focuses on people with disabilities; they are our patients, whanau, community and our staff - all carefully considered in our action plan. Together we will improve the accessibility needs for everyone who has a disability. Our values are Valuing Everyone- Whakawhanaungatanga, Kind –Manaakitanga, Together –Kotahitanga, Excellent- Rangatiratanga. If these are your values too, then join us today.
Employer: Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Counties Manukau
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