Allied Health Assistant

Community based Allied Health Assitant - Bodywise Programe, Waikato
- Permanent, part-time employment - 20 hours per week

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**

**Support tamariki to move, play, and grow healthier — together**.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and community-minded Allied Health Assistant to join our Bodywise programme, supporting families across the Waikato region.

Bodywise is a family-focused, community-based programme for children aged 5-12 years who have been identified as having an unhealthy weight. Our small, passionate team takes a whānau-centred approach, working with parents, caregivers, extended whānau, and tamariki to empower families to make positive, sustainable lifestyle changes together.

We are looking for someone who can build positive connections within the wider community to help link families with local resources, activities, and opportunities to be active. In this role, you will work directly with tamariki and their families, promoting the importance and enjoyment of physical activity. You will educate and demonstrate fun, accessible ways for children to be active, with the goal of building confidence, improving health, and fostering a lifelong love of movement.

This is the kind of role where you will have the opportunity to make a real difference, and are able to make the job your own as you will be the key team member responsible for supporting whānau with their physical activity in this team.

**About the Team/Service/ Location**

The team includes a paediatrician, psychologist, and dietitian, along with this role, Allied Health Assistant, playing a key role in supporting our holistic approach to improving health and wellbeing. The role is part of an multidisciplinary team based in Hamilton, with regular visits to community locations across the region. You will work closely with health professionals within Te Whatu Ora Waikato, as well as with local families.

Allied Health is a department that provides Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech & Language Therapy, Dietetic, Audiology & New Born Hearing screening, Social Work, and Psychology services. Staff within these professions are all involved in direct client care and work in a wide range of situations to improve the health and wellbeing of the people they work with. Allied Health staff work in partnership with individuals and their family/whānau to facilitate relationships and a smooth journey through the healthcare system.

**About you**

As the ideal person for this role, you will have the following skills and attributes;
**Qualifications**, Essential skills and Attributes**
- Minimum of NCEA level 2 or similar
- Experience working with people/consumers
- Demonstrated ability for confidentiality
- Competent computer skills
- Current full, clean New Zealand Driver’s license
- Excellent communication skills

**Desired**:

- Working knowledge of Tikanga Maori.
- Experience working with children and their whānau
- Good working knowledge of community groups, and activities available to tamariki in the Waikato region.
- Previous training, qualifications or work experience around facilitating group activities, teaching or coaching, activity and movement.
- A solid understanding of working with children with physical and mental disabilities would be an advantage

This position is Children’s Worker, as defined by the Children’s Act (2014), and as such appropriate screening will be conducted.

**Working for 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. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

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**How to Apply