Dbt Clinician

**Clinical Team Member - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services - Dialectical Behaviour Therapy**
- **Seeking an experienced DBT clinician to join our team at the Kari Centre**:

- **Use your skills and knowledge to improve mental health outcomes for young people**:

- **Permanent role, full-time (40 hours per week) or part-time, Monday to Friday, based in Greenlane Clinical Centre.**

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

We invite you to join the Kari Centre, an exciting and dynamic Child and Adolescent Mental Health outpatient service that provides assessment and therapy to children, young people, and their families within the central Auckland area.

The Kari Centre has a strong reputation for excellence, innovation, and training, and is dedicated to offering opportunities for career development. We offer internal and external training packages, including formal post-graduate training, for new staff skill development as well as support for experienced clinicians who wish to build on their existing skills.

We are seeking a Clinician Team Member
- DBT to join the Kari Centre. You will be responsible for providing comprehensive Dialectical Behaviour Therapy services to young people and their whanau. Kari Centre has one of the longest standing DBT consult teams in the country who are fully adherent to the DBT model.

This role will also involve phone coaching (rostered 24/7 phone service) and participating in the multi-disciplinary and DBT consult meetings.

Although you are being recruited into the DBT team, there may be times when you are requirement to provide support in other parts of the service.

Please refer here for the position description.

**Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills**

To be considered for this role, you will be an experienced registered Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Mental Health Nurse, Psychotherapists or Psychologist with a current NZ Registration and practicing certificate.

It is desirable for you to have completed accredited training in DBT and have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in providing adherent DBT.

As this is a community role, a full and clean driver’s licence is required.

**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**

We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai Auckland. For more information on what we offer, please click here.

**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply