Advanced Clinician

**Join our high performing multidisciplinary team**:

- **Continuous professional development opportunities available**

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

Te Toka Tumai - Auckland City Hospital have an excellent opportunity available for an **Advanced Clinician, Social Worker** to join our team working in the **Cardiothoracic and Vascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) -** **this role is **permanent,.9 FTE role**.

The Social Work Advanced Clinician will provide a high level of specialist clinical practice and trauma informed intervention. They will demonstrate their clinical expertise in delivering evidence-based practice and clearly articulate the Social Work role to the wider multi-disciplinary team.This is a key support role at a significant time in the life of the patient and whānau. In this area, Social work practice is highly responsive to each patient’s unique needs and requires a high level of specialist knowledge. Additional competencies include excellent advocacy skills, grief counselling and the ability to think critically and develop patient and whānau centred interventions.

The Advanced Clinician will provide specialist training regarding trauma informed practice for new Social Workers. In addition, it will be important that the Advanced Clinician can articulate and provide training to the wider multi-disciplinary team, as and when required.

The ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team is essential. A passion for fostering engagement with Tangata Whenua is a requirement of this role.

This newly established role offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to the Social Work profession by strengthening regional collaboration, implementing evidence-based service improvement and undertaking research and education. The ability to work independently and prioritise and manage workload demands is essential. Regular supervision and continuing professional development opportunities will be provided along with regular support from your Practice Supervisor and Social Work Clinical Lead.

**Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills**

Required:

- A recognised Social Work qualification with full registration with the New Zealand Social Workers’ Registration Board and a current Annual Practising Certificate
- Excellent psycho-social assessment and intervention skills
- Well-developed communication skills
- An understanding and competence in Tikanga Māori
- A full, clean class 1 driver’s licence.

Preferred:

- Minimum of six years of experience in Health Social Work
- Experience working with grief and loss
- Experience in Multi-Disciplinary working
- Strong cultural knowledge and a capacity to work effectively alongside our diverse communities
- Experience in service development and managing projects aligned with improving patient services

**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**

Auckland District Health Board (Auckland DHB) is one of the leading healthcare providers in New Zealand offering a wide range of tertiary and quaternary clinical services to a large and diverse population. We have state of the art facilities and provide our services from three hospitals - Auckland City Hospital, Starship Children’s Health and Greenlane Clinical Centre.

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**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply**

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