Clinical Psychologist (Wellington Central)

at  Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora Capital Coast and Hutt Valley

NAU MAI, HAERE MAI KI TE WHATU ORA – CAPITAL, COAST & HUTT VALLEY DISTRICT

Location: Wellington Central Community Mental Health Team
Service: MHAIDS
Contract: Permanent, Full Time
Salary: APEX and Te Whatu Ora Psychologists Collective Agreement, Dependent on experience

MŌ TŌ MĀTOU RŌPŪ – ABOUT OUR TEAM /SERVICE

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 clinical psychologist. You will work closely with 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. We also pride ourselves on having fun and celebrating ourselves and our professional milestones.
Our base is located in Mount Cook / Newtown, very close to central Wellington. We share office space with the Wellington South CMHT, and Community Alcohol and Drug Services (CADS) is located on the floor below. This makes for a thriving, exciting work environment with staff across teams mutually supporting one another. We have a good working relationship with other services in the local community, and we routinely work closely with NGOs and primary care.
The Local Adult Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Service represents a change in the way we deliver services, and it is an exciting time to join us and help shape the way we work.
Our vision is for an integrated mental health and addiction service, with a focus on local delivery across the district.

Our Local Adult Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Service principles:

• Principle 1: Grounded in Te Tiriti ō Waitangi | Whakapapa ki Te Tiriti ō Waitangi
• Principle 2: Informed by peers and those with lived experience | Ka whakamōhio e nga hoa me te hunga whai wheako ora
• Principle 3: A welcoming, person and whānau-led approach | He huarahi manaaki, tāngata me te whānau
• Principle 4: Timely access to services in the community | Te whai waahi ki nga ratonga i roto i te hapori
• Principle 5: A strengths-based, trauma-informed and recovery focused approach, using advanced therapy and evidence based holistic interventions | Mā te mōhio ka whai whakaaro

The service will follow consistent principles in design and Model of Care, but will have the flexibility to deliver locally appropriate services that will meet the needs of our communities and work in partnership with our local providers. The service seeks to eliminate inequities experienced by Māori, Pacific peoples, disabled people and other groups.
Over the next 12-18 months, we are moving to a locality development model. Each locality contains one or more ‘home bases’, staffed by clinicians and support staff who provide a range of clinical and non-clinical services, contributing to functions that align with their capabilities, training, and expertise.

These functions include:

• Primary Care and Community Transitions, focusing on working with local GPs and nurse practitioners to meet the needs of our tāngata whaiora and whānau from service entry to exit;
• First Response, including intake/assessment and providing a rapid response for tāngata whaiora and whānau experiencing acute mental health distress;
• Local Mental Health and Addiction, which consists of long-term case management using a tailored model to the community (e.g., the Flexible Assertive Community Team model/FACT) and other functions specific to the locality/home bases, including Focused Intervention and Advanced Therapies.

E PĀ ANA KI A TATOU – ABOUT US

You will enjoy a wide range of benefits including:

• 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

You will be a senior clinical psychologist looking to further develop your leadership skills. Alongside your clinical skills, you will have an interest in supervision, clinical governance and service improvement. You will take the lead to enrich the team’s ability to provide talking therapies to tangata whaiora. You will work closely with the Local Service Lead and also support the Clinical Lead, Wellington Locality by joining the Talking Therapies working group (which is an MHAIDS wide working group).