Team Coordinator - Advancing Wellness at Home Initiative

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

Location: Kenepuru Hospital

Service:    Advancing Wellness at Home Initiative (AWHI)

Contract:  Permanent, Part-Time (0.5 FTE)

Salary:  Designated Scale A – Allied, Public Health, Scientific & Technical SECA or Equivalent Nursing Scale

Kōrero mō te tūranga – About the role

Advancing Wellness at Home Initiative (AWHI) are looking for a Team Coordinator to support the Team Leader to continue to expand and develop the service. The Coordinator role is based at Kenepuru Hospital and supports across all AWHI Streams.

The role involves overseeing and supporting the prioritisation of clinical workloads on a daily basis as well as a variety of non-clinical tasks such as supporting with rosters, performance reviews, recruitment and service development. There will also be an expectation to support with clinical workload when needed. Ideally, this role would be combined with a clinical role within the team. This clinical aspect of this role is based in the community with an in-reach component, working in the hospital to identify patients who will benefit from the service. 

Mō tō mātou rōpū – About our team

AWHI aim to facilitate quicker discharges from hospital and to provide Nursing and Allied Health input/rehabilitation services to patients in their own home. The team work predominately with older adults who have been admitted to hospital with a medical condition, following a stroke, or as a result of an injury to help them achieve their rehabilitation goals.

You will be supporting to lead a friendly, fun and enthusiastic team from a mix of professional groups including Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Therapists, Social Workers, Nurses and Assistants. We offer on-going professional development opportunities including profession specific training and inter-professional practice support. You will also have access to professional support through the relevant professional leaders as well as clinical supervision. Cultural professional supervision is available from Māori and Pacific Health teams. 

Moū – About you

We are looking for an Allied Health Clinician or Registered Nurse who has current registration/APC and has recent clinical experience working with people older adults, people who have experience strokes or in rehabilitation/community settings. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years’ experience and will hold a current NZ driver’s license. You will be organised, have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting the development of others. Previous leadership or service improvement activity experience would be an advantage as would an understanding of ACC.

If you thrive on working in a team setting and are ready to expand your leadership skills then we’d love to hear from you. We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds with the right skills and experience who share our values to apply and would greatly value seeing more applicants from our Māori and Pacific Peoples communities.

E pā ana ki a tatou – About us

Here at 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.

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

Click the apply now button to send your application directly to us. For further information on this role please email recruitment@ccdhb.org.nz and indicate the job title and vacancy number in the subject line.

Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai

By joining together we will succeed