Local Service Lead

**_Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora - Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District_**
Location: Wellington District (Upper Hutt home base)

Service: Mental Health Addiction and Intellectual Disability Service (MHAIDS)

Contract: Permanent, full-time

**Salary**: Nursing MECA - Senior Grade 4 or PSA Allied MECA, step 12 - 17

**Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role**

Are you ready to make a difference for our local district specialist mental health and addiction services?

MHAIDS is undertaking a change in the way we deliver mental health and addiction services across the district. We are looking for people who are innovative and passionate about leading people and have a strong grounding in mental health and addiction services in a New Zealand context. As part of this change, we are looking for a Local Service Lead for our Upper Hutt (Hutt North) home base.

You will enjoy achieving and driving for results, and working for a service that has a sharp vision and purpose. Supporting staff and working closely with internal and external stakeholders will be a key part of your work, alongside the day to day running of your home base service and functions while managing any issues and risks that may arise. You will be supported by a dedicated project team and will be working with like-minded people who are passionate about the change.

**Mō tō mātou rōpū - About our team/service**

The Local Adult Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Service is implementing a vision, principles and future model of care that is integrated, culturally responsive, equitable across the district and aligned with national and local directions. Our focus is on local delivery across the districtone system, one service, locally delivered -.

Our principles

Principle 1: Grounded in Te Tiriti ō Waitangi | Whakapapa ki Te Tiriti ō Waitangi
- Tino rangatiratanga
- Equity
- Active protection
- Options
- Partnership

Other key principles underpinning our model of care

Principle 2: Informed by peers and those with lived experience | Ka whakamōhio e nga hoa me te hunga whai wheako ora

Principle 3: A welcoming, person and whānau-led approach | He huarahi manaaki, tāngata me te whānau

Principle 4: Timely access to services in the community | Te whai waahi ki nga ratonga i roto i te hapori

Principle 5: A strengths-based, trauma-informed and recovery focussed approach, using advanced therapy and evidence based holistic interventions | Mā te mōhio ka whai whakaaro

We are currently in the process of moving to a locality development. The Local Specialist Adult Mental Health and Addiction Services are delivered from three identified localities (Wellington City, Kapiti-Porirua, Hutt Valley-Wairarapa), to provide the specialist mental health and addiction treatment for tāngata whaiora who live in each locality.

The three core - streams - within which the local adult specialist mental health and addiction functions (community) are:

- Primary Care and Community Transitions
- First Response (encompassing the functions of intake, assessment, and a rapid response to crisis); and
- Local Specialist Mental Health and Addiction (incorporating the FACT model and advanced therapies).

Each locality will consist of clinicians and support staff who contribute to the functions that align with their capabilities, training, and expertise. - Staff are allocated to a particular home base and provide a range of clinical and non-clinical services.
- Hutt North is one of the three home bases that make up the Hutt & Wairarapa Locality. Based in Central Upper Hutt, the Local Service Lead will work in partnership with the principle clinician, lived experience lead and local service coordinator to ensure that the needs of the local community.

The Local Service Lead is responsible for managing the day-to-day delivery of the home base within the locality. Ensuring the home base meets the needs of tāngata whaiora and whānau, supporting staff, and maintaining the smooth running of the functions within the locality - s home base are key components of this role. The Local Service Lead is not expected to carry a caseload, allowing them to focus on the leadership of core service delivery.

**Moū - About you**

You will be:

- An experienced Mental Health and Addiction Clinician registered with an appropriate registration body and hold a current APC
- Committed to achieving equitable outcomes for Māori whānau
- Experienced in leading a team and a passion for service development and improvement
- A strong advocate and role model for the services vision, principles and model of care including the importance of lived experience voice and peer workforce
- Committed to ongoing professional development - having a post graduate diploma or masters (or working towards one) is preferred

**E pā ana ki a tatou - About us**

You will enjoy a wide range of benefits including:
Partnering with us to realise the vision of change with a team who are committed and passionate ab