Te Aka Kawa

**About the Role**:
Te Whānau o Waipareira is seeking a dedicated Clinical Practitioner to join our Te Aka Matua service. This role is integral to delivering holistic, strength-based mental wellness services to whānau experiencing mild to moderate distress. You will support the delivery of our kaupapa Māori wellness services, ensuring that whānau receive culturally appropriate and effective care. Working closely within a Te Ao Māori framework, you will perform core clinical duties, including risk assessments and therapeutic interventions, while seamlessly connecting whānau to additional support services when needed.

You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to coordinate assessments, care, and interventions, ensuring the best health outcomes for whānau. Your role will also involve supporting and facilitating various forms of therapy, such as whānau systems therapy, behavioural therapy, and sensory modulation therapy, all within a kaupapa Māori environment.

This is a fixed-term fulltime opportunity with a start date in January 2025, and an end date of June 2025.

**Key Tasks and Responsibilities**:

- Lead and deliver Kaupapa Māori wellness services tailored to whānau needs.
- Conduct clinical assessments, therapeutic interventions, and risk management for whānau experiencing mild to moderate distress.
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure integrated care.
- Manage and maintain whānau case documentation to ensure continuity of care.
- Support project activities within Te Aka Matua and foster strong relationships with whānau Māori and mainstream health organisations.

**Your Skills and Experience**:

- Full registration under the Health Practitioner Competence Assurance (HPCA) Act 2003, or as an Alcohol, Drug, and/or Gambling Practitioner with DAPAANZ membership, or as a Social Worker.
- An understanding of Te Ao Māori, tikanga, and kaupapa Māori therapeutic approaches.
- Demonstrated experience in mental health and addiction support, ideally within a Māori-focused service.
- Strong interpersonal and analytical skills to provide client-centered care and effective collaboration within a team environment.
- A full, clean NZ driver’s license.

**Mana Motuhake (Our Goal)**

Te Whānau o Waipareira is a non-government organisation, operating locally in the heart of West Auckland. We are dedicated to creating generational change for urban Māori, delivering a broad spectrum of services in education, health, and social care.

**Waipareiratanga (The Waipareira Way)**

Here at the Whānau House, we do our mahi differently. As a new kaimahi, you will be warmly welcomed into a close-knit whānau, with networks spanning across the West Auckland region and beyond. We walk side-by-side with the Māori community, woven into a cross-generational story far bigger than oneself. As kaimahi, we take care of your wellbeing and provide a number of benefits:

- Fun, supportive, and flexible team working environment.
- Various professional and career development opportunities.
- Locally based offices, near to public transport and shops.

A Waipareira career is YOUR opportunity to create a difference for whānau Māori

**How to Apply**

**All applicants must have a valid New Zealand residency or work visa.**

We do not accept submissions from any recruitment agency.