Psychologist Paediatric Pain Management

**Provide effective psychological support, to tamariki and young people and their whanau receiving health care at Waitaha for their persistent pain.**:

- ** Be part of an effective multi-disciplinary team.**:

- ** Permanent Part Time Role - 16 hours per week (O.4 FTE)**

**Mō te tūnga | About the role**
This is an exciting new role within the Child Health Psychology service.

The Psychologist - Paediatric Pain Management role will provide psychological support to our tamariki and young people and their whanau, who are receiving health care at Waitaha for their persistent pain. The role will contribute to the development of the new paediatric pain service through the provision of specialist psychological input that focuses on the crossover of psychological health and management of persistent pain. They will proactively contribute to the delivery of an excellent pain management service, that provides holistic and psychological care for tamariki with persistent pain, through effective consultation, education, and support to the Child Health team. The psychologist will collaborate effectively with the interdisciplinary paediatric teams in Child Health; this will include involvement in regular MDTs, inter-professional appointments, and consultation as required.

**Ko wai koe | About You**

We are looking for an experienced Psychologist, to provide effective psychological support, to tamariki and young people and their whanau receiving health care at Waitaha for their persistent pain.

You will have experience supporting, developing and maintaining an agreed model of service delivery for psychology access for patients and their whānau.

Your professionalism and dedication to providing high-quality patient care will ensure your success in this role, and your communication and time management skills will enable you to function well as a member of the larger multidisciplinary team.

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

- Registration with the New Zealand Psychologists Board, with a current Annual Practising Certificate
- Member of a professional psychological organisation (NZCCP or NZPsS)
- Minimum of 3 years - experience as a Psychologist and working at a Senior level
- Education either during university studies or post-graduation in health psychology and pain management theory and principles
- Experience and interest in working with tamariki and their whanau experiencing persistent pain.
- Completed appropriate supervision training and has supervision experience.
- Experience working relationally, with whānau, and with complex systems and working with patients with complex needs.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload to operate effectively.

**Mō mātou | About Us**
- Ko ngā tāngata, te mātua mahi - Putting people at the heart of all we do
- Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, leads the day-to-day running of our health system across New Zealand, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels. It weaves the functions of the 20 former District Health Boards into its regional divisions and district offices, ensuring continuity of services in the health system.

Here in Waitaha, Canterbury we deliver health services to the almost 600,000 people that live in the Canterbury region. We are committed to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its principles by ensuring our partnership with Māori are at the forefront of all our conversations.

**Ngā hua | Benefits of working at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora**

When you work at Health New Zealand, you are part of a wider whānau that will support you along your career journey. We offer great professional development and learning opportunities for all staff. We are always improving our facilities across all campuses and have access to amazing kaimahi/staff discounts from select retailers, restaurants and businesses.

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