Social Work Team Leader

**_Permanent Full time position available, 40 hours per week._**
- **_ Regular hours Monday to Friday with - ability to support weekend and evenings roster required_**:

- **_ Registered social worker with experience in health social work_**

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The Team: _**What we do**

Our Social Work Team covers all the Christchurch Hospital Campus. We have six teams providing a 24/7 and Monday to Friday service across all departments. As a professional and highly skilled registered Social Worker, who displays a positive attitude and enthusiasm for Leadership, you will enjoy working in a fast-paced dynamic multidisciplinary environment. You will enjoy the challenges of working in a fluid environment responding to a diverse range of health needs working at top of you scope of practice.

**_ The Role:_** Where you fit in**

You will have Proven leadership experience and the ability to help build a culture of excellence in professional conduct, personal responsibility and accountability, leading by example. You'll foster an environment and culture that supports innovation and creativity in practice, continuous quality improvement, research, teaching, supervision and training and development of staff. It will be important to demonstrate effective clinical reasoning and evidence based practice and is a role model for ongoing professional development.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

- a clinical case load within a defined area of service delivery as agreed with the Social Work Clinical Manager, undertakes own clinical supervision and fulfils responsibilities for own performance appraisal.
- Works in partnership with the Social Work Clinical Manager and in partnership with other Clinical Team Leaders to ensure the appropriate skill mix and numbers of staff to meet current and future service demands.
- Ensures team members are informed of current and new/revised CDHB Social Work policies and procedures and obligations to comply
- Assists the Social Work Clinical Manager with the recruitment, selection, induction, training and development, performance management, annual performance appraisals and supervision of Social Work workforce.
- Supports and assists the Social Work Clinical Manager to undertake performance appraisals, coaching, mentoring of direct reports.
- Ensures legislative requirements are met in relation to professional practice and registration of direct reports
- Ensures professional supervision of direct reports is undertaken as required by the profession and CDHB Supervision Policy.

This role will see you working alongside different multidisciplinary teams so being a team player who can quickly adapt will be essential to your success. Our service is committed to the professional development of our staff and offers regular ongoing development opportunities.

**Mō mātou | About Us**
- Ko ngā tāngata, te mātua mahi_ - _Putting people at the heart of all we do - _

Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand, 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 Te Whatu Ora [Health New Zealand]**

When you work at the Te Whatu Ora, you are part of a wider whānau that will support you along your journey. We offer great coaching, mentoring and learning outcomes for all staff. We are always improving our facilities across all campuses and have amazing discounts from select retailers, restaurants and business.

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