Health Professional - Mental Health Assessment And Home Treatment

Health Professional - Mental Health Assessment and Home Treatment

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora - Whanganui District

Mental Health Assessment and Home Treatment – Community Health and Addictions Services

Permanent, 24 hours per week.

0.6 FTE

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders.

About the Role

Our friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary wider Community Mental Health and Addiction team are seeking a New Zealand clinician to work with our Mental Health Assessment and Home Treatment team.

This is an opportunity for you to develop and share your acute clinical experience in a recovery focused environment.

Are you a registered health professional with experience in acute community mental health and addictions healthcare?

Are you looking for variety in your working life, no two days the same?

Are you wanting an opportunity to work with a great team who are supportive and professional?

Would you like a work life balance?

Are you a person who places tangata whaiora at the centre of your care philosophy?

If you answer yes to any of these questions, we would like to hear from you.

About the Team / Service / Location

The Mental Health Assessment and Home Treatment Team works to provide mental health crisis phone triage, urgent mental health assessment, crisis resolution intervention, and the delivery of intensive short term home treatment for a defined group of service user / tangata whaiora to support community-based treatment and care.

This position provides you with the opportunity to work on a variety of duties as and when you are able.

For more information on living and working in Whanganui, click here

To be successful in this position you will :

Be a registered health professional with a minimum of three years post graduate clinical experience working in acute mental health and community mental health services is desirable

Be a duly authorised officer or willing to complete the training

Hold a current New Zealand practicing certificate

Be able to apply comprehensive assessments skills and motivational skills that are culturally safe and partnership focused

Be a provider of educational and community information that is supportive of the needs to the service users / tangata whaiora and their family / whanau

Have a compassionate and enthusiastic understanding for mental health well-being and ability to deliver interventions that is reflective of the Whanganui District Health He Hapori Ora - Thriving Communities strategic direction

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand.

We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community.

We welcome applications from our diverse Maori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

How to Apply

To apply please click "apply now."

All applications must be submitted through our online careers' portal by 14th November

Would you like to know more?

Please contact Michel Manning, Clinical Manager, Community Mental Health and Addiction Services, on

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

Job details

Job Reference :

Job Reference : 08-CMHA-

Location :

North Island - Manawatu / Whanganui - Whanganui

Job type : Expertise :

Clinical - Mental Health - Mental Health Clinical Team Member

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