Community Mental Health Nurse

3 months ago

Christchurch, New Zealand Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Waitaha Canterbury Full time

**0.8FTE permanent positions available in the CAF Access team;**:

- ** Current APC with experience in mental health and MH scope of practice required;**:

- ** Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a cohesive Multi-Disciplinary Team.**

**Mō te tūnga | About the role**

The Child, Adolescent and Family (CAF) Access Team receives referrals and enquiries for CAF specialist mental health services and provides an emergency response and short-term follow-up for Tangata Whaiora (young people) with an acute mental health concern.

We are seeking someone who works well under pressure, communicates effectively and who has a background in Mental Health. It would be highly advantageous to have experience working with young people and an ability to deliver evidenced based treatments. You will receive a comprehensive orientation to work across all clinical functions of the team and on-going support and appropriate external training as required.

Currently based at The Princess Margaret Hospital, this friendly multi-disciplinary team are expanding to provide some short-term treatment interventions for young people who are referred to the service, there will be an opportunity to work in the short-term treatment team as your experience and skills base grows.

We have a permanent position available 0.8FTE - operating from Monday to Friday during business hours.

**Pehea | About You**

In this role, you will be responsible for:

- Phone triaging of young people in crisis in conjunction with their family/whanau;
- Providing comprehensive psychiatric assessments and interventions to young people in psychiatric crisis and brief case management if felt necessary by multi-disciplinary team;
- Triaging routine referrals into our CAF services;
- Working collaboratively with external agencies striving for better health outcomes in our community.

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**:

- The ability to effectively communicate and work collaboratively with young people, family/whanau, within the team and with other agencies;
- A minimum of 2 years mental health experience along with knowledge of general mental health assessment or risk;
- Experience within a Child and Adolescent setting and an understanding of child and adolescent development is advantageous;
- As some travel is required in this position, a current NZ driver’s license is essential.
- Must be registered with Nursing Council of New Zealand with current APC and must have mental health scope.

**Mō mātou | About Us**

Specialist Mental Health Services are an interdisciplinary team that forms part of Te Whatu Ora - Waitaha Canterbury. We are committed to working and partnering with tāngata whaiora and their whānau. Constantly striving to work within our philosophy; we develop therapeutic, supportive and empowering relationships with our consumers, enabling them to achieve their personal goals and aspirations.

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