Clinical Psychologist

2 days ago

Porirua, New Zealand Porirua Full time

**_Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora - Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District_**

**Location**: Te Whare Ra Uta, Kenepuru Hospital

**Service**: Mental Health Service Older Persons (MHSOP)

**Contract**: 1fte = 40 hours, Permanent

**Salary**: APEX MECA - $77,478 + per annum

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

Do you have experience of working with older adults or perhaps an interest in developing your clinical practice in a specialty area? We are advertising for a full-time Clinical Psychology position with Mental Health Service Older Persons (MHSOP). This is a unique role split across our inpatient and community teams which are co-located on the Kenepuru Hospital campus. We work closely with medical and health of older person services to co-manage the health needs of tangata whaiora referred to our service.

You will be responsible for specialist assessment, formulation and intervention with individual tangata whaiora referred to the service, as well as providing guidance to colleagues on psychosocial aspects of their care (e.g. risk assessment & management, behavioural support, supervision of individual therapies). You will be available for consultation and opportunity to facilitate therapeutic group programmes in this clinical setting. We would welcome your active contribution to service development and continuous quality improvement initiatives within this specialty.

**Mō tō mātou rōpū - About our team**

MHSOP is predominantly a community based service with a 16 bed specialist inpatient unit located on the Kenepuru campus. Our service sits under the Mental Health, Addictions and Intellectual Disabilities Service and works closely with other local and regional services.

The purpose of the service is to provide comprehensive assessment, treatment and ongoing case management, working in partnership with individual tangata whaiora, whānau, formal and informal care givers and community agencies. MHSOP provides assessment, treatment and rehabilitation services for individuals presenting with recent onset functional illness over the age of 65 and/or dementia with significant behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD).

**Moū - About you**
- Registration in the Clinical Scope of Psychology
- Proven experience in working with highly complex client presentations.
- Experience/training in multiple therapeutic & assessment approaches particularly neuropsychological
- Experience of stepped care/management of referrals for psychological therapies.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to others.
- Experience of undertaking quality improvement initiatives relevant to clinical psychology

**E pā ana ki a tatou - About us**

Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

To find out more about us click on the following links:
Capital and Coast

Hutt Valley

Mental Health, Addiction and Intellectual Disability Service

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

Your safety and that of our patients is important to us. It is our expectation that you will be fully vaccinated against COVID 19, having received two doses of an approved COVID 19 vaccination.

**_ Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai_**
**_By joining together we will succeed_

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