Community - Mental Health Nurse

**Seeking a Community Mental Health Nurse to join our supportive team at the Taylor Centre.**:

- **Permanent, full time or Part time roles available, Monday to Friday.**

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

Join our team at Taylor Centre, a leading Community Mental Health Centre committed to providing comprehensive assessment and recovery-oriented treatments for adults grappling with serious mental illness and severe psychological disorders.

We seek a passionate clinician eager to embrace the diverse challenges inherent in delivering recovery-focused, integrated services to the Te Toka Tumai adult community.

As part of our dynamic team, you'll collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary group of mental health experts under the guidance of the Clinical Team Leader. Together, we aim to ensure the efficient, top-notch delivery of tailored service outcomes to our clientele.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Demonstrate a steadfast commitment to assisting patients in achieving equitable health outcomes.
- Take ownership of maintaining a safe work environment for oneself and colleagues.
- Maintain accurate and pertinent records in accordance with regulatory standards.
- Efficiently manage caseloads to ensure optimal service delivery.

**Qualifications and Attributes**:

- Possess clinical expertise and a strong focus on patient-centred care.
- Exhibit the ability to collaborate effectively with clients, mental health service providers, government agencies, and community organizations to advance clients’ recovery.
- Hold a valid Annual Practicing Certificate (APC).
- Possess a Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health.
- Have prior experience working in a Mental Health setting.
- Demonstrate a dedicated commitment to biculturalism.

For further details, please refer to the position description:

- Mental Health Professional - Community Acute Service
- Registered Nurse

**Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills**

We are currently seeking Registered Mental Health Nurses with a minimum of 1 year of experience in mental health.

Taylor Centre (Community Mental Health Centre) provides a range of mental health assessment, treatment, and support services to adult residents in central Auckland, surrounding suburbs, and the Hauraki Gulf (Waiheke Island and Great Barrier Island)

Taylor Centre is recovery focused and multi
- disciplinary in approach. We provide specialist assessment for individuals with an existing or suspected mental illness, with associated risk and/or impairment and offer a broad range of evidence-based support options and/or interventions.

The key worker will utilize their knowledge and skills to assess all complex health needs of the service user providing care and advice that supports them to manage their overall healthcare needs. They will support the service user to coordinate their mental health needs.

The Key worker will hold a caseload, as determined by service need, and will provide active collaboration, planning and liaison with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), general practitioner (GP) and any other health care providers, including NGOs and inpatient, to enable them to perform their duties to their optimum.

The key worker may practice in a variety of clinical contexts to provide a comprehensive range of therapeutic treatment options which can occur in a range of community settings this will be done in partnership with the service user, their families/whānau and communities

This is a Key Working role within our Care and Recovery team, based at Taylor Centre.

**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 also an Accredited Employer with Immigration NZ (Please visit **Immigration NZ Accredited Employer Work Visa** for more information if you will be needing a Work Visa).

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**

We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves