Registered Mental Health Community Nurse For Mental Health Needs Assessment Service Coordination

Location: Porirua

Contract: Full time (1.00 FTE)

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

About the Role

Mental Health Needs Assessment Service Coordination is a dynamic and responsive specialist mental health service that keep tangata whaiora at the centre of what we do. We are part of the Mental Health Addictions and Intellectual Disability Service Operations Centre that covers the Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley district. If you enjoy the challenge of meaningful work that makes an impact on people’s lives, then this is the role for you.

About the Team/Service Location

MHNASC is a friendly, supportive and hardworking team who:

• Believe that caring for each other is an essential part of working in the mental health field.
• Are passionate about finding solutions for the people that we work with.
• Will support you to extend your knowledge and expertise as a clinician.

About you

• Registration with Nursing Council of New Zealand (NCNZ).
• A current Annual Practicing Certificate (APC) and scope appropriate to place of work.
• Completion of an undergraduate (leading to registration) or post graduate programme in mental health (or intellectual disability) nursing.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the significance of and obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi, including how to apply Te Tiriti principles in a meaningful way in the nursing role.
• A commitment to achieving equitable outcomes for Māori.
• A personal commitment to on-going learning and development including attainment/maintenance of PDRP.
• Strong and successful experience in leading and delivering comprehensive assessments and working in collaboration with people and their whānau to ensure best possible health and wellbeing outcomes.
• Record of working successfully within complex systems to collaborate and facilitate positive outcomes.
• Having advanced knowledge of how systems work, and what resources are available.
• Experience in using critical thinking and judgement on how best to allocate resources to support the recommendations from the assessment.
• Advanced knowledge relevant to MHNASC (desirable).
• Proficiency in using technology within the workplace.
• A high standard of written and spoken English.
• Full driver’s licence.

Someone well-suited to the role will place a high value on the following

• Commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
• Demonstrating values and behaviours of Te Mauri o Rongo.
• Respect and collaboration in practice.
• Delivering an exemplary standard of care.
• Practice informed by research evidence.
• Innovation and critical thinking.
• Commitment to sustainable practice.

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness’. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations. We embrace diversity and welcome application from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and disability. A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

How to Apply

To apply please click “apply now.” All applications must be submitted through our online careers’ portal. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Marianne.Lovgren@tewhatuora.govt.nz

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advertisement.

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