Social Worker-te Puaruruhau

Nau mai, haere mai ki Starship Child Health
- Would you like to make a positive and purposeful impact on tamariki and their whānau?
- Are you interested in supporting transformational change in a dynamic, innovative and challenging clinical context?
- Are you a registered social worker with child protection and family violence practice experience?
- Permanent full-time roles

Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation
At Te Toka Tumai |Starship Child Health is a dedicated paediatric healthcare service and major teaching centre, providing family centred care to neonates, children and young people throughout New Zealand and the South Pacific. Starship is a part of Auckland DHB and is the only comprehensive children's hospital in New Zealand serving a population of approximately 1 million children. Auckland DHB is NZ's largest public tertiary hospital which has strong ties with University of Auckland and provides extensive teaching and training opportunities.

Te Puaruruhau is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in child protection practice. We are part of Starship Child Health, co-located in a multi-agency centre ( Puawaitahi) with the ADHB Violence Intervention Programme, Shine, “Power to Protect” (the National Shaken Baby Prevention Program), the Auckland City Police Child Protection Team and the Clinical Services Unit of Oranga Tamariki. We provide a unique service addressing the child protection needs of New Zealand's most vulnerable children and young people and their families.

Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity
Starship Social Work in Child Health, ADHB has an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced social worker to work alongside children and their families in a health environment and become part of the dedicated social work team at Starship Children's Health and at Te Puaruruhau.

We are seeking a full-time Social Worker to work in the ADHB child protection team (Te Puaruruhau). This is an exciting opportunity to practice in an innovative way within an enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team.

**We offer**:

- A competitive salary
- Access to professional development budget
- Supervision
- Partner benefits and discounts
- Free Te Reo classes

Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills
The successful applicant will assist in the provision of a comprehensive range of health-based services, including acute inpatient and outpatient psycho-social assessments for children and young people from 0 to 18 years, services to children and young people in care, participation in Family Group Conferences, peer review, teaching, quality-improvement and research.

Services will be provided as part of a dynamic, experienced and highly supportive multi-disciplinary team, and as part of the ADHB paediatric Social Work Team, you will be provided supervision, professional oversight and development opportunities.

The successful applicant will need to be registered with the Social Work Registration Board and hold a current APC with no conditions. Services are provided from Monday to Friday and an on-call weekend service is a critical part of overall service delivery.
- The capacity to initiate, support and contribute to enhanced service delivery, including the capacity to 'think outside the box' in order to solve complex problems
- Experience in child protection & family violence work is essential, experience within a health environment is preferable or an ability to adapt well to new working environments
- Experience of grief and loss work
- Awareness and capacity to work effectively with multiple ethnicities and cultures
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team environment
- You will have a Social Work qualification recognised by the Social Work Registration Board in New Zealand
- SWRB registration and a current APC

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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 whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai | Auckland DHB.

For more information on what we offer, please click here.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply