Clinical Manager - Hereford Centre

Summary about this job

Detail information about job Clinical Manager - Hereford Centre. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Are you an experienced senior registered Nurse?
• Bring your extensive mental health background
• Enjoy our employee benefits programme

Our Purpose: What We're Here For

When you work with the Canterbury District Health Board, you're part of something very special. We're world leaders in the delivery of integrated health care, and we're always striving to Make It Better. From the carers on the front line working directly with patients and communities, to our talented support teams who enable that care, we plan, fund and deliver health services to the almost 600,000 New Zealanders that live in the Canterbury region. And we're all about putting people at the heart of everything we do.

Our Culture: What Matters To Us

Ko Te Whatu Manawa Tangata

Putting people at the heart of all we do

For us to continue putting our communities at the centre of our health system, we're putting our own people at the centre of everything we do. Because health is ultimately all about people. What's important around here is the way we care for and respect others, the responsibility that all our people take for delivering outcomes, and that we go about our work with integrity in all we do.

What matters to us is doing the right thing, valuing everyone, and being and staying well ourselves so we can care for our community.

The Role: What This Opportunity's All About

We seek an enthusiastic, experienced and dynamic senior registered Nurse to lead the Hereford Centre Assertive Outreach Community Mental Health team currently based at Hillmorton Hospital.

This team provides a comprehensive Monday to Friday (including Public Holidays) clinical service for people experiencing difficulties with major mental illness and struggle to engage with services. Intensive support and treatment is offered in the community as well as support to caregivers and agencies involved with the consumer group.

This key position involves managing the operational and clinical functions of a community mental health team. You will work in collaboration with the multi disciplinary team and be part of the Adult General Service; therefore you will have excellent clinical skills as well as an ability to ensure financial and operational objectives are carried out in line with the CDHB vision. It is expected that this position carries a 0.5 case management caseload. Ideally you will have an extensive mental health background, with past experience of team management in a multidisciplinary team setting

Working:

1 FTE, fixed term until 29/04/2019

Skills & Experience:

• You will be an experienced Registered Nurse with a current NZ practicing certificate
• You will be a confident practitioner with exceptional patient assessment skills
• Sound clinical skills and knowledge, confidence and ability to work effectively with a wide range of people are imperative to this role.
• Enthusiastic, motivated, with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to engage a wide variety of people, is paramount in this role.

Desirable

• Relevant Post graduate qualification at diploma level

Our Culture

Belonging Here: Becoming Part Of Our Story

Our people enjoy access to a fantastic benefits scheme, flexible working arrangements and a genuine and ongoing focus on career development.

We hope you'll seriously consider joining us, but if this isn't a good fit for you, please share the opportunity with your personal networks and help us find our next rock star!

If this particular role isn't for you, we do have other similar opportunities - please look on our careers page or give us a call to discuss.

Apply online, or to find out more information, please contact Jessica Massey

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (03) 3377923

Applicants will be progressed as they apply, so if this sounds like you, please apply now!