Early Intervention Clinician

North Island - Bay of Plenty – Rotorua, North Island

Full-time fixed term (6-month maternity leave cover)

Rotorua

A highly rewarding role and opportunity to make a difference for generations to come!

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

You will be responsible for delivering early interventional health and wellbeing guidance, support and service within Primary and Intermediate Schools. The Mana Ake service is led by health but delivered in collaboration with education, enabling the delivery of support where initial discovery of wellbeing need is often identified in a community setting.

About the Team / Service / Location

The clinical mental health and wellbeing workforce deliver evidence informed individual, group and whole of class wellbeing programmes / interventions for tamariki as well as broader wellbeing cluster support to kura and schools.

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About you

As an clinician you will be :

• A Registered Nurse or an experienced Allied Health professional with current registration in Nursing, Psychology, Counselling, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or related field.
• Well experienced in working with community, tamariki and whānau
• Adaptable and able to pivot within a rapidly changing environment
• Hold a full drivers license

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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 Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

How to Apply

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