Local Service Coordinator for Local Adult Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Service.

Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora – Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District

Location:   Wellington District

Service:     Local Adult Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Service

Contract:   Permanent, Full-time (1 FTE)

Salary:      Step 9-12 Allied PSA MECA or Nursing Senior Nurse Grade 1-2

Please note this role is open only to current staff of Te Whatu Ora. Please do not apply if you are not employed by Te Whatu Ora

Kōrero mō te tūranga – About the role

We are looking for a person-directed, values-driven Local Service Coordinator for the Hutt North (Upper Hutt) within our Local Adult Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Service. You will work closely with experienced clinicians to deliver safe, effective and integrated specialist mental health and addiction treatment in our local community. Our service has a strong, dedicated and supportive team culture, and an established Learning and Development Centre to tautoko your career development.  We also pride ourselves on having fun and celebrating ourselves and our professional milestones.

If you are ready to work in a team that value humour, compassion and self-care alongside delivering excellence in their day to day mahi, then this is the team for you!

The Local Adult Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Service is implementing a vision, principles and future model of care that is integrated, culturally responsive, equitable across the district and aligned with national and local directions.  Our focus is on local delivery across the district – ‘one system, one service, locally delivered’.       

Our Local Adult Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Service principles:

Principle 1: Grounded in Te Tiriti ō Waitangi | Whakapapa ki Te Tiriti ō Waitangi

Principle 2: Informed by peers and those with lived experience | Ka whakamōhio e nga hoa me te hunga whai wheako ora

Principle 3: A welcoming, person and whānau-led approach | He huarahi manaaki, tāngata me te whānau

Principle 4: Timely access to services in the community | Te whai waahi ki nga ratonga i roto i te hapori

Principle 5: A strengths-based, trauma-informed and recovery focused approach, using advanced therapy and evidence based holistic interventions | Mā te mōhio ka whai whakaaro

The service will follow consistent principles in design and Model of Care, but will have the flexibility to deliver locally appropriate services that will meet the needs of our communities and work in partnership with our local providers. The service seeks to eliminate inequities experienced by Māori, Pacific peoples, disabled people and other groups.

Over the next 12 months, we will be moving to a locality development.  The Local Specialist Adult Mental Health and Addiction Services are delivered from three identified localities (Wellington City, Kapiti-Porirua, Hutt Valley-Wairarapa), to provide the specialist mental health and addiction treatment for tāngata whaiora who live in each locality.   

Each locality will consist of clinicians and support staff who contribute to the functions that align with their capabilities, training, and expertise.  Staff are allocated to a particular home base and provide a range of clinical and non-clinical services. 

Upper Hutt is one of the three home bases that make up the Hutt Valley & Wairarapa Locality.  Based in central Upper Hutt, the Local Service Coordinator ensures that people accessing specialist adult mental health and addiction services in the locality are appropriately allocated to the right function at the right time based on their need.     

The Local Service Coordinator work alongside the Local Service Lead and the Principal Clinician to ensure the smooth flow of tāngata whaiora through the service, which is consistent with the vision of an integrated approach to service delivery.      

Mō tō mātou rōpū – About our team

Working closer to tāngata whaiora and whānau in their communities, and the ability to build stronger connections both across the mental health and addiction system and in the localities that you work within. 

The ability to work more closely with your colleagues across the district, and across the distinct functions and specialities within the service. 

Working for a service that has a focus on planned interventions (i.e. proactive not reactive approach).

Opportunities for greater flexibility of both work hours and locations across the district. 

Greater opportunities for career progression and the development of specialisms in key areas of practice.

Moū – About you

You will be :

• An experienced Mental health and Addiction clinician registered with an appropriate registration body and hold a current APC.
• Committed to achieving equitable outcomes for Māori whanau.
• Able to demonstrate an ability to develop and maintain partnerships with the local community.
• Able to articulate a solid understanding of the roles and functions of a local specialist mental health and addiction service .
• A strong advocate and role model for the services vision, principles and model of care including the importance of lived experience voice and peer workforce.
• Have a commitment to ongoing professional development – have a post graduate diploma or masters (or working towards one) preferred.

E pā ana ki a tatou – About us

Here at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District we embrace diversity and welcome applications from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disability and religions. A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and serve our community.

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

To find out more about us click on the following links:

Capital and Coast

Hutt Valley

Mental Health, Addiction and Intellectual Disability Service

Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to apply

Please note we do not accept email applications. Please click the ‘apply now” button to send your application directly to us. For further information on this role please email Marianne.Lovgren@tewhatuora.govt.nz and indicate the job title and vacancy number in the subject line.

Please note, we will be reviewing applications when received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.

Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai

By joining together we will succeed