Senior Occupational Therapist

3 months ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Full time

**Experienced Paediatric Occupational Therapy role within Starship Children’s Hospital**:

- **Part time/ Full time considered**:

- **Opportunity to continue your professional growth and develop your career**:

- **Join our specialised Paediatric Pain team to provide care and assessment to tamariki and whānau**

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

Starship Child Health has an opportunity for an **experienced Occupational Therapist** to join our Paediatric Therapy team working part time in the **Starship Chronic Pain Service **and across the Starship inpatient wards**. **We are a friendly, hard-working and skilled team, every day we provide; complex pain assessment, specific pain management, therapy and support to children predominantly in an outpatient setting. This is a **permanent** position (24-40 hours/week) and the role designation is dependent on experience.
- Provide an occupational therapy service to children and adolescents with persistent or recurrent pain conditions
- Collaborate with the inter-professional team to provide a whānau-centred approach and demonstrate a robust level of contemporary occupational therapy theory and practice to provide effective assessment and interventions, whilst establishing enabling relationships with children and their whānau (family)
- Demonstrate culturally safe practice that encompasses a diverse range of beliefs, values and practices
- Thrive within a vibrant, innovative and diverse setting amongst a supportive interdisciplinary team of consultants, nurse specialists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech language therapists, clinical neuropsychologists and team support

**The specialist aspect of the Chronic Pain Service is required to meet the needs of children and adolescents who have**:

- Developed chronic pain as a result of an injury, illness, medical or surgical intervention
- A disability including, but not restricted to, functional and/or psychological impairment
- A requirement for a graduated rehabilitation programme from an inter-professional team that is beyond the capabilities of secondary services

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**Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills**

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

- NZ registration as an Occupational Therapist with current Annual Practicing Certificate
- 4+ years of post-graduate clinical work experience
- We will consider part-time applicants for this role
- Experience working in paediatric rehabilitation or complex pain (advantageous)
- Proven experience working in paediatrics (desirable)
- Sound clinical reasoning skills and use of evidence informed practice
- Ability to work collaboratively with a range of professional groups in a multidisciplinary setting
- Effective time management, prioritisation and organisation skills
- Drive, energy and initiative with excellent communication and interpersonal skills

**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**

Te Toka Tumai Auckland is one of the leading healthcare providers in New Zealand offering a wide range of tertiary and quaternary clinical services to a large and diverse population. We have state of the art facilities and provide our services from three hospitals - Auckland City Hospital, Starship Children’s Health and Greenlane Clinical Centre.
- Meaningful support and orientation to your practice contexts with robust opportunities for critical reflection on practice, including peer review and professional supervision
- On the job training with continuous improvement and development opportunities including a well-established in-service training programme
- A great team environment and supportive work culture

Starship Child Health is the only comprehensive children’s hospital in the country serving a population of approximately 1 million children. The hospital is co-located with the adult hospital and provides

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