18 Oct
CGR Services
Lower Hutt
Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora - Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District
Location: Hutt South Community Mental Health Team, central Lower Hutt
Service: Local Adult Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Service
Contract: Full time (Monday to Friday)
Salary: $75,773-$106,739 (Step 1-8 of PSA / NZNO Nursing MECA, dependent on level of experience).
Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role
We have part time/full time vacancies for a motivated and enthusiastic Registered Mental Health Nurse to join our integrated multi-disciplinary team.
You will be working with an experienced team,
who strive to provide high quality care/treatment to tāngata whaiora and their family/whānau requiring access to specialist mental health and addiction services and live in the Lower Hutt community.
If you are a Registered Community Mental Health Nurse with the following attributes, we are looking for you:
- Ability to work using a team nursing approach within the wider Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), and demonstrate values consistent with the Wellington District Local Adult Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Service.
- Committed to the principles of Te Tiriti ō Waitangi.
- Practicing in a manner that service users determine as being culturally safe.
- Working effectively with tāngata whaiora/consumers/whānau in community mental health and addiction services.
Mō tō mātou rōpū - About our team
Are you ready to make a difference for our local district specialist mental health and addiction services?
We are looking for a person-directed, values-driven Community Registered Mental Health Nurse clinician for the Hutt South (Lower 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 communities.
Our service has a strong, dedicated and supportive team culture, and an established Learning and Development Centre to tautoko your career development.
If you are ready to work in a team that values humour, compassion and self-care alongside delivering excellence in their day to day mahi, then this is the team for you!
Moū - About you
- You will be an experienced, registered mental health professional (Community Mental Health Nurse) who is passionate about working in a way that is person-directed, trauma-informed, compassionate, and offers help and hope.
- You will work in a way that is holistic, integrated and collaborative, recognising people’s physical health and social needs.
- You understand the importance of cultural competence and equity, providing practice that is consistent with the spirit and intent of Te Tiriti ō Waitangi.
- You understand the importance of person-directed care and intentional peer support.
- You are mindful of the needs of our diverse population, for instance, Pacific peoples, refugee and migrant communities, disabled people/tāngata whaikaha, rainbow communities, and those living in rural areas/isolated from health services.
- You will be a registered mental health professional with a current Annual Practising Certificate.
- You must have a full and clean Driver's License and the ability to consent and complete NZ or international Police vetting (Vulnerable Children's Act 2015).
E pā ana ki a tatou - About us
- 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.
Here at Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley, 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 is a 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 and indicate the job title and vacancy number in the subject line.
Do discuss in your covering letter your current/previous mental health experience - we will take this into consideration for shortlisting for this role.
Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai. By joining together we will succeed.
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▶️ Community Registered Mental Health Nurse
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