Social Worker, Starship Child Health

2 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

Permanent roles - Full-time (40 hours per week ) and Part-time (32 hours per week)
- Would you like to make a positive and purposeful impact on tamariki and their whānau?
- Are you interested in supporting transformational change in a dynamic, innovative and challenging clinical context?
- Are you a registered social worker with child protection and family violence practice experience?

You will work in a team of passionate and skilled social workers in a changing time for health in Aotearoa.

**We offer**:

- A competitive salary
- Access to professional development budget
- Supervision
- Partner benefits and discounts
- Free Te Reo classes

Starship Social Work in Child Health, ADHB has an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced social worker to work alongside children and their families in a health environment and become part of the dedicated social work team at Starship Children's Health.
The Paediatric Social Work team cover inpatients and outpatients at Starship and also have a key role at Te Puaruruhau, the Auckland Regional Child Protection team, providing services to the wider Auckland region and supporting the national services at Starship Hospital.
The Paediatric Social Work team provides psychosocial assessment and intervention to support successful adaptation to hospitalisation and diagnosis. We also support people during periods of grief, loss and relationship support; family violence assessment and intervention, crisis intervention and the management of difficult and complex family situations. Services are provided from Monday to Friday and an on-call weekend service is a critical part of overall service delivery.
This is a time of service innovation in health care so the capacity to actively participate in helping forge new ways of delivering services, particularly in primary care, and in partnership with the NGO sector would be a huge advantage.
The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate
- The capacity to initiate, support and contribute to enhanced service delivery, including the capacity to 'think outside the box' in order to solve complex problems
- Experience in child protection & family violence work is essential, particularly within a health environment and/or an ability to adapt to new working environments
- Experience of grief and loss work
- Awareness and capacity to work effectively with multiple ethnicities and cultures
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team environment
- You will have a Social Work qualification recognised by the Social Work Registration Board in New Zealand
- SWRB registration and a current APC

If you are an experienced Social Worker with expertise in multidisciplinary and multiagency working this role may provide you with the clinical development opportunity you have been looking for.
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