Social Worker

Te Kuuwaha o te Waiora - 135C Silverdale Road, Hamilton
- 80 hours per fortnight
- Permanent

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**

You will play a key role in an intensive, personalised, Māori led and clinically underpinned response to the health, cultural and social needs of approximately 70 tāngata whaiora and their whānau in the Waikato region. This group of tāngata whaiora who have been identified as having high needs, and who are not getting these needs met by the current service system are predominately Māori (about 70 per cent). ‘High need’ has been defined as a mixture of mental health and addiction problems, physical health conditions, and disability combined with significant impairment and disadvantage across a range of social, psychological, behavioural, occupational and interpersonal domains.

**Key responsibilities of the role**:

- Navigating complex biopsychosocial situations using an ecological systems approach to assist with identifying and addressing barriers to accessing health/mental health care and community support services.
- Assessment of support needs to determine eligibility for mental health residential recovery beds.
- Provide holistic and comprehensive assessment of current state and guide plan to address these issues. These include support needs assessments, social inclusion, risk assessment and safety planning in the context of family harm (elder abuse, child protection and the safeguarding of vulnerable adults). Social worker to work in partnership with Whānau Advisor about building connections.
- Leading practice with service users/tangata whaiora who have dual disabilities and require support from other funding provider such as ACC and DSL.

**About the Team**

Oranga Rangatira is committed to providing a well-integrated and cohesive clinical and cultural model of care that will ensure services provided to tāngata whaiora and their whānau enhance their Oranga, Mana and dignity.

Our success is driven by the ability and willingness to liaise and work alongside Kaimahi across the Waikato region, internally and externally, to provide a flexible community-based multi-disciplinary, intensive treatment and rehabilitation service for tāngata whaiora and their whānau.

**About you**
- Competency with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to starting your journey and taking ownership of your learning and growth
- Full registration with Social Workers Registration Board with a current APC.
- Minimum of 5 years work experience working with “high need individuals and or whanau” experiencing significant mental health and addiction problems.
- A strong desire to work from a Te Ao Māori perspective, acknowledging contributions from both cultural and clinical perspectives.
- Current full drivers Licence.

**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.

Social Workers in Mental Health and Addictions are provided with:

- Monthly Social Work Network meetings and chances to network with other Social Worker’s.
- Monthly in house professional development opportunities.
- Professional supervision with an experienced Registered Social Worker.
- Opportunities for further training such as supervision training, when appropriate.

**Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion**

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**How to Apply