Mental Health Assistant
12 hours ago
**Auckland Central (close to all forms of public transport & motorways**:
- **Full time, permanent position**:
- **Monday-Sunday role**
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders.
**About the Role**
As a Mental Health Assistant, you will assist nursing staff with the provision of essential care while meaningfully engaging with patients. This includes activities such as self-cares and bed making, laundry assistance, room transfer, escorting service users as appropriate, assisting with recovery programmes and completing routine checks and enhanced observations as delegated. You will attend handover as an essential member of the team and be aware of health status, risk, vulnerabilities and needs of all service users on the ward. You will contribute to the delivery of high-quality service and ensure that all tasks will be attended to in a time efficient manner.
**About the Team/Service/ Location**
Haumaru Ōrite is a supra-regional acute psychiatric child and adolescent mental health inpatient unit, caring for whaiora between age 0-18th birthday.
Within the same facility Haumaru Ōrite also houses a specialist three-bedded Mother and Baby Unit which provides inpatient care to people living in Waitemata, Auckland, Counties Manukau, and Northland.
It is located on level one of Starship Children's Hospital.
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**About you**
- As a Mental Health Assistant, you will _
- Hold a Level 4 Mental Health Support Worker certification
- Be able to meet the physical demands of the job
- Have recent & relevant work experience within a mental health setting
- Have experience of working in a health care setting with a variety of cultures
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