Social Worker for Mental Health Needs Assessment Service Coordination

2 weeks ago

Wellington City, New Zealand North Island - Wellington Porirua Full time

**Location**:Wellington Regional Hospital/Kenepuru Hospital/Hutt Valley Hospital
**Contract**:Permanent, Part time (0.9 FTE)

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we're building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

**About the Role**

- Mental Health Needs Assessment Service Coordination is a dynamic and responsive specialist mental health service that keep tangata whaiora at the centre of what we do. We are part of the Mental Health Addictions and Intellectual Disability Service Operations Centre that covers the Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley district.
- The role is to comprehensively assess mental health and addictions support needs, for people aged 18 and over and refer them on to services to work alongside them to enhance their recovery. These services may include community based supports, home based supports and housing and recovery residential support.
- If you enjoy the challenge of meaningful work that makes an impact on people's lives, then this is the role for you.

**About the Team/Service/ Location**

- MHNASC is a friendly, supportive and hardworking team who:

- Believe that caring for each other is an essential part of working in the mental health field.
- Are passionate about finding solutions for the people that we work with.
- Will support you to extend your knowledge and expertise as a clinician.

The MHNASC office is located in Porirua. We assess individuals within Hutt Valley and Capital coast areas.

**About You**

Skills and experience that would be helpful for the role include:

- New Zealand Registered Social Worker;
- A current Annual Practicing Certificate (APC) and scope appropriate to place of work;
- Expectation of at least 3 years clinical experience;
- Member of Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers - Professional Association (desirable);
- A commitment to achieving equitable outcomes for Māori;
- A personal commitment to on-going learning and development;
- Full driver's licence;
- Strong and successful experience in leading and delivering comprehensive assessments, and working in collaboration with people and their whānau to ensure best possible health and wellbeing outcomes;
- Experience in using critical thinking and judgement on how best to allocate resources to support the recommendations from the assessment;
- Record of working successfully within complex systems to collaborate and facilitate positive outcomes;
- Having advanced knowledge of how systems work, and what resources are available;
- Leading and facilitating multi and interprofessional team work, and actively support and promote this with colleagues;
- Proficiency in using technology within the workplace;
- A high standard of written and spoken English.

**Working at Health New Zealand**

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is 'the weaving of wellness'. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

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