Job Description
Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role
Where you will be working:Waikato District, Rotational Occupational Therapy
The details:Full time fixed-term until September 2025, 80 hours per fortnight
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.
About the Role
- This full time position is fixed-term until September 2025
- Waikato District has exciting opportunity for a New Zealand Registered Occupational Therapist to be part of our Rotational Programme for a fix term period. Our programme provides opportunities to expand your occupational therapy knowledge and skills in a range of clinical areas.
- The Occupational Therapy Rotational programme has a variety of clinical areas and settings, including 6 months and 12 months rotations
About the Team/Service/ Location
- Waikato District is one of New Zealand’s largest public hospitals, covering a large urban and rural community
- Waikato District provides extensive allied health services.
- We are a friendly supportive team
About you
We are seeking:
- A positive, flexible attitude
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
- Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
- An ability to grow from past clinical experiences
- A new or recent graduate with a current annual practicing certificate (or is working through the process of obtaining)
- Full driver’s licence
- Competency with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to starting your journey and taking ownership of your learning and growth
- Experience in upholding Te Tiriti principals and frameworks, and the application of Mātauranga Māori and Kaupapa Māori approaches, particularly as they apply in healthcare settings.
Working for Health New Zealand
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness’. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.
Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
- We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us. Skills are gained across many areas of our life, not just in formal employment. If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the ad, but the experience was gained through whānau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your cover letter.
- We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.
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How to Apply
Please click ‘Apply online’ or apply via our Waikato Careers Website by clicking here All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal before 11:59pm on 11 December 2024. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Debbie Gibson OT Manager ph: 021969712