Social worker – AWHI – Advancing Wellness at Home Initiative

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

Location:  Hutt hospital

Service:    AWHI – Advancing wellness at Home Initiative

Contract:  Permanent Full time (1 FTE)

Salary:     Step 3 to Step 8 of Allied Collective Agreement

Kōrero mō te tūranga – About the role

The Advancing Wellness at Home Initiative (AWHI) has an exciting opportunity for a Registered Social Worker to join our team. This role is community based with some in-reach into the inpatient setting to identify patients that will benefit from our service. Day to day you will be working as part of an interdisciplinary team to support patients in their own homes to meet their rehabilitation goals. This role will involve a variety of Social Work tasks with a large aspect of the role focusing on grief and loss. You will be working in an inter professional practice model which means you will also complete rehabilitation interventions that may traditionally sit with other disciplines. With training you will be supported to develop your clinical reasoning and be able to tailor your assessments& develop a holistic treatment plan with your patient. For example following assessment you may provide your patient with support around loss of independence but also education around managing their life style risk and support them with a basic exercise programme. The in-reach component of the role involves attending ward multidisciplinary team meetings, supporting with discharge planning and meeting patients on the ward to help them establish goals that they wish to work on at home. In order to offer a 7 day per week , clinicians in these roles will be rostered to work one weekend day per month with a rostered day off in the same fortnight

Mō tō mātou rōpū – About our team

The AWHI team at Hutt Hospital works with people coming out of hospital post stroke, following an injury and also with medically unwell older people presenting to ED or Acute wards. This role is based at Hutt Hospital, joining a friendly, fun and enthusiastic team from a mix of professional groups. Our team currently includes Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech &Language Therapists, Social Workers and Allied Health Assistants. We offer on-going professional development opportunities including inter professional practice training, professional support, profession specific training though the relevant professional leaders and clinical supervision. Cultural professional supervision is available from Māori and Pacific Health teams. Our team is continuing to grow and there will be opportunities to innovate and develop the service.

Moū – About you

We are looking for a Social Worker who is interested in expanding their skill set to working in an inter professional role whilst sharing Social Work knowledge and skills with the team. You will have current registration/APC and recent clinical experience working with people under stroke/neurology or community rehabilitation specialties. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years’ experience and will hold a current NZ driver’s license. You will be able to demonstrate ability to build rapport with patient and whānau from all backgrounds and have a clear understanding of the health needs of our Māori and Pacific Island communities. You will have a flexible approach to working in a high turnover, fast paced environment and have an understanding of inter professional practice. If you are passionate about being the best you can be, thrive on working in a team setting and are ready to expand your practice further 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

We do not accept applications via email. Click “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