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Clinical Leader For Intellectual Disability Services

Clinical Leader For Intellectual Disability Services

New Zealand GovernmentPORIRUA, New Zealand
1 day ago
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## Mo tenei turanga mahi | About this role

  • Location :
  • Porirua
  • Contract :
  • Fixed Term, Part time (0.6 FTE)Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora isfirmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated toserving all New Zealanders.

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

  • About the role
  • Thefunctions of the Clinical Leader role are diverse, but include providingleadership in relation to clinical matters, ensuring an effective clinicalgovernance structure is maintained, implementation of quality and patientsafety improvement measures, addressing complaints and medico-legal matters,oversight of recruitment to key clinical positions, ensuring that credentialingof medical staff occurs, and providing support and advice when concerns areraised regarding the working conditions, performance, conduct, or health ofclinicians.TheClinical Leader leads their service in partnership with the Operations Manager.Together, they will be responsible for all activities required to drive andsustain a tangata whaiora and whanau centred culture, in which the values ofour organisation are lived and realised.TheClinical Leader reports to the Clinical Director for the IntellectualDisability Service and supports them to develop and implement high quality andsustainable clinical services within the Intellectual Disability Service.

    • ThePrincipal Clinician, Clinical Nurse Specialists and Care Managers operatingwithin the service report to the Clinical Leader.TheClinical Leader ID Services works in collaboration with the Clinical NurseSpecialist, Team Leaders, Service Educator and relevant internal and externalstakeholders to implement and maintain high quality and sustainable clinicalservices consistent with the ID Services Model of Care.TheClinical Leader ID Services is a key contributor to both the RIDSS / NIDSS / NISUleadership team and the ID Service Clinical Governance Group.

    The ClinicalLeader ID Services has a mandate to drive best practice across clinical teamsand all disciplines within the operational group.

    Otherkey relationships include partnerships with primary care, NGOs, and otherproviders operating locally, as well as with the other related positions acrossMHAIDS.

  • About theTeam / Service Location
  • The intellectual disability services offerinpatient and community services for adults and youth.

    • We provideevidence-based treatment for care and rehabilitation that prepares people withan intellectual disability to live fulfilling, offence-free lives in thecommunity.The inpatient service operates 24 hours a day, 7days a week, 365 days a year and provides assessment, treatment andrehabilitation of the above-mentioned client group.

    The service is staffed with medical, nursing,allied health clinicians, mental health support workers, managers andadministrators.

    The nursing and mentalhealth support worker staff all work rostered and rotating shifts.

    Other staffwork Monday to Friday.The Community team provides two functions : as aMental Health Intellectual Disability Team which provides assessment andtreatment services in the Wellington region and consultation / liaison andtraining in the central region; and as a Consultation Liaison team whichprovides assessment and support in the central region to patients whosebehaviour has resulted in legal proceedings.Our forensic intellectual disability services arefor people who have a diagnosed intellectual disability and have committedoffences.

    These clients are usually carerecipients or special care recipients under the Intellectual Disability(Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003 (IDCC&R) who have beenconvicted or found unfit to stand trial.

    Some clients are also in service underthe Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992.The work is person-centred, well-planned,monitored and responsive to each client - s psychological formulation andindividual risk profile.

    Care and rehabilitation is progressive anddevelopmental.

    This includes teaching and learning new skills through therapeuticprogrammes, experiential learning and staff walking alongside clients.

    We workalongside whanau and community agencies to provide the best care we can.The service - s Philosophy of Care is PositiveBehaviour Support (PBS).

    The evidence base for PBS show that the client groupis less likely to engage in behaviours of concerns, and more likely to engagein prosocial behaviours and skill development activities, when their quality oflife is maximised.

  • About you
  • To beconsidered for this role you will;
  • Have extensive knowledge of intellectual disability service delivery, with strengths in the following areas : + The application of psychological frameworks to the care and rehabilitation of offenders with an intellectual disability.
  • Theories of behaviour change in neurotypical and neurodiverse populations.
  • The Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation and other forensic frameworks.
  • Risk assessment and risk management within a forensic intellectual disability setting.
  • Positive Behaviour Support.
  • The delivery of forensic intellectual disability services in both inpatient and community settings.
  • The legal and ethical frameworks that underpin forensic mental health and intellectual disability services.
  • Equity issues in the delivery of health services.
  • Te Ao Maori and, specifically, bicultural models of healthcare.
  • Have operated within a complex environment, including meeting the needs of multiple organisations at the same time.
  • Have experience of managing a clinical operation effectively.
  • Possess a strong mix of strategic and operational skills that include innovation in health services and prevention of illness and disability for targeted groups in society.
  • Have provision of strategic interpretation and leadership for the vision, strategy and delivery of assigned responsibilities within annual plans.
  • Have successful experience in managing internal and external relationships with an assortment of stakeholders, with demonstrated management success in building relationships and gaining the support and participation of key individuals and groups.
  • Have successful experience in leading staff during times of change and change management.
  • Have demonstrated ability to find common ground and solve problems for the good of all, represent their own interests and yet be fair to other groups, solve problems with peers with a minimum of noise, gain trust easily and support peers and encourage collaboration.
  • Be a registered practising clinician, with a current annual practicing certificate.
  • Someone well-suited to the role will placea high value on the following :
  • Valuing the contribution of others
  • Managing stakeholder relationships
  • Pro-active management to achieve outcomes
  • Devolution of decision making
  • A commitment to contribute at a strategic level
  • A commitment to promote primary and secondary clinical research in MHAIDS
  • Working at HealthNew Zealand
  • Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is- the weaving of wellness - .

    • We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare forthe people of Aotearoa / New Zealand.Our people are at the heart ofeverything we do.

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

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

    A workforce that is diverseand inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and service ourcommunity.

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

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