Health Improvement Practitioner

5 days ago

Manawatu District ManawatuWanganui, New Zealand Whanganui Accident and Medical Full time

Are you enthusiastic about the wellbeing of our community?

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for an innovative professional to work in wellbeing teams within the Whanganui Accident & Medical (WAM) clinic, to enhance the ability of the service to provide holistic care to patients. This can be either a part-time or full-time position and is based in Whanganui.

This role is part of a model of integrated primary mental health and addictions support, which aims to provide people experiencing mental distress or addictions challenges with access to convenient, high-quality, integrated, and person-centered care and support. As a result, this role will best suit someone comfortable working with change, who is excited by the opportunity to improve and refine the model of care to best meet the wellbeing needs of the community.
- Holds current New Zealand registration as a health professional in Nursing, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Counselling or Social Work.
- Has experience building therapeutic rapport with clients and ideally providing evidence-based talk therapies such as FACT, ACT and/or CBT.
- Has highly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with within Māori, Pasifika, Youth and wider community networks.
- Has excellent computer skills and ideally experience recording notes in electronic patient records.
- Holds a current full NZ drivers' licence.
- Is passionate about learning and refining a new model to best meet the wellbeing needs of the population.

Successful applicants will receive comprehensive training and ongoing mentoring, which will appeal to clinicians with an interest and expertise in behavioural health. National training for this role will be provided by Te Pou, with dates to be determined during recruitment.

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