Occupational Therapist Burns and Scar Management

5 months ago

Hamilton, New Zealand Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Waikato Full time

**Where you’ll be working**:Waikato Hospital

**The details**:Fixed term OT position, covering parental leave. 0.8 FTE in burn and scar management team, with the ability to work 1 x Sunday in acute OT service = 0.9 FTE
- **Join our great hand therapy, burns and scar management team for the opportunity to work alongside our clients throughout their health journey**
- **A wide range of education, training and learning opportunities are offered to our Allied Health staff**

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**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist, preferably with previous experience in Burns and Scar management in a hospital setting working across acute inpatients and outpatient clinic settings. You will work as part of a specialised team, providing therapy services to inpatients, outpatients and patients in rural clinics. Our organisation is a tertiary hospital trauma service, and as such has a wide range of complex injuries coming through our doors. We enjoy close proximity and working relationships with the plastics surgeons and are looking for someone who understands the value of collaborative working.

You will be based at the Meade Clinical Centre located on the Waikato Hospital campus, with the potential for visits to our rural hospitals in order to provide clinical input. Our organisation is a tertiary hospital trauma service, and as such has a wide range of complex injuries coming through our doors. We enjoy close proximity and working relationships with the plastics and orthopaedic surgeons and are looking for someone who understands the value of collaborative working. In this position, can also include working 1 x Sunday per fortnight supporting the acute OT service, if desired.

**Click here** to view the position description.**
- (Please note position descriptions can only be viewed on the Te Whatu Ora - Waikato website.)_

**Mō tātou Ratonga | About our Service**

Allied Health is a department of Te Whatu Ora, Waikato that provides Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech & Language Therapy, Dietetic, Audiology & New Born Hearing screening, Social Work, and Psychology services. Staff within these professions are all involved in direct client care and work in a wide range of situations to improve the health and wellbeing of the people they work with. Their work includes people who are acutely unwell in hospital, or requiring rehabilitation for serious illness or injury, people who have chronic illness or disability and need to improve functional independence and quality of life. Allied Health staff work in partnership with individuals and their family/whanau to facilitate relationships and a smooth journey through the healthcare system.

**Mōu | About you**

As the ideal person for this role, you will have the following skills and attributes;
- Registration and current annual practicing certificate (or in the process of obtaining) with Te Poari Whakaora Ngangahau o Aotearoa (the Occupational Therapy Board of New Zealand)
- An ability to live and lead the Waikato Districys values of Whakamana (Give and earn respect), Whakarongo (Listen to me; talk to me), Mauri Pai (Fair Play), Whakapakari (Growing the good), Kotahitanga (Stronger Together)
- A commitment to achieving excellent clinical and business outcomes based on quality service delivery and outstanding and empathetic patients care
- Ability to manage a complex caseload of patients across the age continuum
- Previous experience in Burns and Scar Management in a hospital setting is desirable
- A sound grounding in upper limb anatomy, from finger-tip to cervical spine
- An ability to work autonomously completing comprehensive clinical assessments, as well as use adult teaching principles to engage health consumers
- A strong team focus, and excellent communication and inter-personal skills
- A full clean New Zealand drivers license

This position is Children’s Worker, as defined by the Children’s Act (2014), and as such appropriate screening will be conducted.

**Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation**

**Te iwi Ngakaunui - People at Heart**
- Whakamana - Give and earn respect
- Whakaronga - Listen to me; Talk to me
- Mauri Pai - Fair play
- Whakapakari - Growing the good
- Kotahitanga - Stronger together

It is not very often something happens that is big; like, really big. Big to the point that it will touch the lives of every single person in the country. That is what we are talking about here. The provision of Health in Aotearoa New Zealand, and how its run is about to change in a big way.

Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand and Te Aka Whai Ora - Māori Health Authority will together shape the delivery of Health services in Aotearoa New Zealand for generations to come, and will form the core of a modern and integrated service looking after the needs of all our Whānau.

We are dedicated to achieving health equity for Māori and other priority populations. We are a Crown entity and an active partner in Te Tir

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