Clinical Team Members – Kari Centre, Akld DHB

ORGANISATION INFORMATION
Organisation	Auckland DHB
Area, City	Auckland
Advert reference	CEN04841
CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact person	Jimmy Mathews (Recruitment Consultant) on 09 638 0364
Contact website and/or email	To express interest, please apply online now at www.careers.adhb.govt.nz to CEN04841 and please indicate your choice of role (CEN06936 and CEN06863 – Occupational Therapist Full Time perm roles and CEN06642 – Clinical Psychologist, Full Time, permanent role.)
Contact telephone	09 638 0364
VACANCY DETAILS
Permanent/temporary	Permanent
Full/part time	Full time
Closing date for applications	03-08-2018

JOB DESCRIPTION

OT Job Opportunities! Community Team Therapy, Group Therapy Pathway, and Active Outreach Team work
Kari Centre CAMHS, ADHB
Permanent and Fixed term
Full time and Part-Time

Immediate start
Central location
Ongoing staff support and training

We invite you to join the Kari Centre, an exciting and dynamic Child and Adolescent Mental Health outpatient service that provides assessment and therapy to children, young people, and their families within the central Auckland area.

The Kari Centre has a strong reputation for excellence, innovation, and training, and is dedicated to offering opportunities for career development. We offer internal and external training packages, including formal post-graduate training, for new staff skill development as well as support for experienced clinicians who wish to build on their existing skills.

As a qualified mental health professional, you will provide comprehensive mental health assessments and treatment to children, adolescents and their families who are experiencing serious mental health problems. We seek applicants with previous experience of working within a CAMHS setting, or applicants who are emerging practitioners with child and adolescent mental health as professional focus.

We are a values based and inclusive organisation that is committed to deliver the best health outcomes for our total population. To do this we are working hard to develop a robust and capable workforce that reflects the population we serve. We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds with the necessary capability and who share our values to apply and would greatly value seeing more applicants from our Māori & Pacific communities. Our organisation values diversity, inclusivity and empathy, if you do too, apply now and join us to make a positive difference and to “do your life’s best work at Auckland DHB”.

In particular, we are currently offering exciting opportunities for the following specialist areas in CAMHS:

Community teams where you will work with young people 4-18 years of age across a range of presentations
A designated therapeutic group pathway where you will plan and facilitate a range of groups and follow up clients who attend these groups
Active outreach teams where you will work with children, young people, and their families that are hard to reach and likely experiencing socio-economic deprivation

We have permanent and fixed term full time and part-time positions available, working Monday to Friday based at Greenlane Clinical Centre. As these are community roles, a full and clean driver’s license is required.

We will consider applications from Clinical Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists, and Clinical Social Workers who have their professional registration.

To express interest, please apply online now at www.careers.adhb.govt.nz to CEN04841 and please indicate your choice of role (CEN06936 and CEN06863 – Occupational Therapist Full Time perm roles and CEN06642 – Clinical Psychologist, Full Time, permanent role.)

Click here for the position description.

For any query, please contact Jimmy Mathews (Recruitment Consultant) on 09 638 0364.

This position is a Core Children’s worker under the VCA & requires full safety checks completed before any new employee starts.

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Posted on: July 3, 2018

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What do you need from an OT?	Explanation of the service.
Home and Community Environment assessment	Assessment of a person’s ability to access and move around their home or community environment and ability to perform everyday tasks in their home. Strategies for independence or safety may be taught. Alterations to the environment or adaptive equipment may be recommended.
Rehabilitation	Enabling a person’s participation in life’s activities and achieving their goals. Rehabilitation of physical or cognitive impairments resulting from brain injury, spinal injury musculoskeletal injury or other medical condition or event.
Technology solutions	Recommendation of equipment and technology that will enable access to and participation in activities. Might include technology for learning, visual impairment or controlling the environment.
Activities of Daily Living – Assessment and Treatment	Assessment of the way everyday tasks are performed. Recommendations about better and safer ways to manage are made. Alterations to the environment or adaptive equipment may be recommended. Recommendations for funders regarding level and type of personal support may be supplied.
Older Person’s Health and wellbeing	Assessment of a person’s ability to manage their everyday activities in their living situation. Recommendations for safe and easy ways to do activities and equipment and home modifications may be provided. May include provision of a treatment plan to support and enable the person to achieve their goals.
Child health, Learning and Development	Assessment and therapy services for children (and their families/whanau) with a variety of diagnoses whose ability to play, learn or perform daily activities is interrupted. Includes assessment and working with clients (usually children) with Autism Spectrum Disorders. May include working with people to develop skills for handwriting and other tasks that required fine motor skills.
Mental health and wellbeing	Assisting participation in chosen activities in people who experience social or emotional distress or mental illness. Supporting wellness, self management, lifestyle changes and recovery. May include support with stress management, life enhancement, family therapy, psychotherapy spirituality and sexuality.
Driver assessment and vehicle modification	Specialised assessment of a person’s fitness to drive and conditions which should be placed on a person’s license. Assessment for modifications required to vehicles to enable driving.
Worker safety, assessment and rehabilitation	Assessment and treatment of the injured worker and advice to insurers regarding the needs of injured workers. Design and support of return to work or work rehabilitation programmes. Can include recommendations for injury prevention. May include ergonomic assessments of workplaces and tasks. May include Functional Capacity Evaluations (FCE’s) to determine a person’s general work tolerances and abilities. May include vocational counselling through determining a person’s background, skills and abilities that can be transferred to alternative employment.
Workplace Health, Safety Design and Training	Evaluation of work environments, their design and practices in order to maximize safety, health and welfare of workers. Can include provision of workplace training for the prevention of injury, including moving and handling training. May include working with designers and architects to optimize healthy human-environment interaction.
Participation at home and community	Enabling a person’s participation in their chosen life activities and/or occupations. Includes people who have an age related disability, physical disability, mental health issue or intellectual disability .
Living well with Long Term Conditions	Enabling participation in everyday activities and roles in the presence of persistent challenges. Supporting self management and effective coping strategies. Includes Pain, fatigue, chronic health issues and disability. May include managing the changing needs caused by a palliative condition such as cancer and treatment so that a person can continue to do the everyday tasks that are important to them.
Managing Vision Impairment	Specialists who assess and treat the functional implications of vision problems. Includes managing symptoms (Glare sensitivity or migraine), teaching strategies for safety and independence with everyday activities, recommendations for modifications to home and work and special equipment, tools or aids.
Hand therapy, Splinting and Scar management	Specialists who assist people who have difficulty using their hands as a result of injury, a disease process or deformity.
Community/Organisational Strengthening and Culture Change.	Working with groups in community or organisational settings or policy development to enable participation for all people. May include review of Aged Residential Care or other residential facility to enable occupation for residents.
Mobility, wheelchairs and seating	Assessment of a person’s needs for specialized wheelchair and cushions, seating, and positioning. May include assessment of needs for mobility scooters.

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Clinical Team Members – Kari Centre, Akld DHB