Psychologist (Clinical)

Location : Wellington Region

Contract : Permanent, Part-time (0.7 FTE - flexibility regarding hours - please state on your cover letter what hours you are seeking)

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders.

Through integration and collaboration, we - re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whanau-centred care, and excellence.

About the Role

Salary : Steps 1 -10 (APEX Psychology SECA)

We are excited to offer this opportunity for a registered Clinical Psychologist (Kaimatai Hinengaro) to join our Older Persons and Rehabilitation Community Services across our district.

This is a newly established role following a successful pilot and business case to embed Clinical Psychology within our Community Teams to work in a holistic multi-disciplinary way to meet our patient - s needs.

This role could potentially suit 2 Clinical Psychologists working part time together.

In this role you will be working alongside the Community Clinicians (Allied Health, Nursing and Medical) to support a patient - s treatment and intervention.

Your intervention may range from case consultations to support clinician - s interventions for patients with psychological need, through to providing psychological intervention when indicated.

As this is a new role, we are open to candidate preference where the Psychologists may be physically based across the community services.

Duties will include :

• Individual evidenced-based therapy for patients to improve mental health and well-being, helping patients adjust to diagnoses and enhancing their engagement and outcomes in rehabilitation.
• Maximising the person - s ability to cope with, and engage with their rehabilitation or health care plan
• Case consultation, mentoring and supervision to community clinicians to provide a psychology perspective to complex cases (support them to work to the top of their scope)
• Linking in with psychology services across the system (eg Inpatients, Rehabilitation and Mental Health Services).

About the Team / Service Location

You will be joining a friendly, dynamic and highly motivated group of allied health professionals who are dedicated to improving the health outcomes of those with neurological, chronic health or age related needs.

We value collaborative working, and support each other to provide the best outcomes for our communities.

There are four community teams geographically located in Wellington, Porirua, Kapiti and Hutt.

About you

This role will suit applicants from a broad range of clinical experiences.

As an experienced clinician, you will have the opportunity to grow and develop our service within Physical Health.

We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds who share our values to apply and would greatly appreciate applications from our Maori and Pacific communities.

You will :

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We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do.

Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

We embrace diversity and welcome application from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and disability.

A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and service our community.

We are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Maori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

How to Apply

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