Nau mai, haere mai ki Starship Child Health!

An exciting opportunity exists for an enthusiastic Social Worker to join the Starship Community Team! Are you:

·A social worker with experience working with children, young people and their families in a community setting?

·Able to thrive in a challenging environment where evidence-based practice, strengths in interdisciplinary practice, clinical reasoning, and decision-making skills are highly valued?

·Seeking an opportunity to continue in your professional growth and develop your career?

·Competent to respond to child safety and well-being concerns in a complex and dynamic multiagency context?

·Fixed term,Full-time(40 hours per week) for a period of 12 months to cover parental leave

Te whiwhinga mahi| The Opportunity

Starship Community is an interdisciplinary team of professionals providing nursing, allied health, technical and cultural support to children, young people and their families living within the Auckland DHB area. We are looking for an experienced, motivated and dynamic social worker with a passion for working with children, their families and whanau.

Your focus will be providing social work support to children and their families and whanau who have high health and social needs in the community.

This position offers an ideal opportunity for you to develop or extend your social work expertise, as part of an interdisciplinary team. You will benefit from regular formal supervision, peer review, collegial support and active participation in education and in-service programs.

Thisis a fixed-term full-time position working 40 hours per week Monday to Friday based out of Greenlane Clinical Centre. As the role is a community role, a full and clean NZ driver's license is also required.

For further details, please refer to the Position Description here

Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills

The successful applicant will:

·Be a qualified registered Social Worker and will have a NZ registration with SWRB

·Have a current annual practicing certificate (APC)

·Current New Zealand driving licence

·Previous experience working in a health setting and in child protection would be an advantage

·Experience working with Maori and Pacific communities is desired

·Ability to work autonomously in a multi-cultural environment is essential

·Ability to use a personal computer with standard software applications for basic operations such as file management, word processing, email, and diary management

To speak with someone from the service about this exciting role, please contact Fiona Howie, Locality Lead-Maungarei [email protected]

Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation

We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We are part of Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand,the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s national health service. We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Starship Children’s Hospital, located in central Auckland.

Te Toka Tumai |Starship Child Healthis the leading provider of child health care in New Zealand and the South Pacific, providing world-class inpatient, outpatient, trauma, emergency, and urgent care to children and their whānau. We seek to lead New Zealand in paediatric service delivery through the building of our reputation as a national centre of excellence in child health care.

He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | Whyyou willenjoy working here
We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai | Auckland.

We offer:

-A competitive salary

-Access to professional development budget

-Supervision

-Partner benefits and discounts

-Free Te Reo classes

For more information on what we offer,please click here.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

Please submit your application online, outlining your experience and motivation to apply to this role in your cover letter and CV quoting job reference ADHB20179.

To view details about our recruitment process, clickhere.

To apply please click'apply now' below. If you have any queries about accessibility or technical issues with the online process, please contact Honey Pillai, Recruitment Consultant at[email protected]

Advertising Closes: 8 January 2024

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