Social Worker - Intellectual Disability Services
Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora
- Otago
- $74,000-104,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 0.5 FTE (20hrs per week) permanent opportunity
- Competitive salary, Kiwisaver and on-site fitness facilities
- Access to regular supervision, professional development, and peer support
- Apply evidenced based and best practice principles to underpin social work practice
- Undertake appropriate social work assessments (including psychosocial and risk assessments) of the consumers and their family's needs and situation
- Exhibit effective assessment and counselling skills and be clinically competent
- Understands the impact of family harm upon consumers and their family especially children and to work to reduce the risk of further harm
- Function as a member of a multidisciplinary team and liaise appropriately with relevant health care professionals, managers, and organisations
- Be self-motivated, innovative and an effective problem solver
- Empathetic with patients and their families/whanau
- Be able to work autonomously as well as within a multidisciplinary team
- Have commitment to maintain social work standards and ethics
- Hold a current APC and Registration with the Social Workers Board of New Zealand
- Beautiful coastlines and a family-friendly community
- Continuous support for career development
- Subsidised gym membership and discounted health insurance
- Access to staff fitness facilities and banking offers
- Access to a range of retail discounts and Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Occupational health assessment
- Police vetting/Ministry of Justice safety checks
- Serious misconduct checks (previous Public Service departments and statutory Crown entities only)
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