Registered Nurse - South Island Perinatal Mental Health Service Community Team

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Hillmorton Hospital, Christchurch
• Permanent part-time 0.8FTE position
• Work hours between 08:30 hrs - 17:00hrs. Monday to Friday

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

Based at Hillmorton Hospital, SIPMHS provides care for a South Island wide catchment. The team provides specialist mental health treatment for pregnant women, and women or other primary caregivers of the infant in the post-partum period, who present with complex moderate to severe mental illness. This Specialty Service offers a fulfilling and dynamic environment and opportunities to further your nursing career. Comprehensive treatment, multi-disciplinary functions across the community teams, and liaison with multiple agencies, are integral to service provision across the South Island. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a Community Mental Health Nurse with a current New Zealand APC and mental health experience or scope of practice to work in a specialist dynamic and varied community setting.  You will be providing care, assessment and management of people with a mental illness in the perinatal period.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Providing assessment, treatment and management of mental health challenges for mothers or the primary care giver of their babies alongside their family/whanau.
• Providing support to families under your care while utilising your risk assessment and management abilities.
• Professional development and ongoing educational opportunities are strongly encouraged and supported. 

About you

We are looking for a professional and highly motivated nurse to join our team. To be successful in our team you will need to display a positive attitude and enthusiasm for this area of work, you will enjoy being part of a committed and diverse multi-disciplinary team, you will work in collaboration with a group of professionals who recognise the importance of providing quality care and services to tangata whaiora and their supports, liaising with other healthcare teams and support service providers. Interacting with a variety of stakeholders, you will have an ability to effectively manage and prioritise a caseload using case management principles and providing therapeutic interventions to those on the caseload.

• You will work within a multi-disciplinary team, and in collaboration with our tāngata whaiora and their family/whanau, primary care, community supports and our inpatient teams.
• It is essential that you can think on your feet, triage and prioritise your tāngata whaiora - s needs appropriately, and in a timely manner.
• You will case manage a caseload of tāngata whaiora who you will proactively engage with and support to engage with their treatment and other holistic supports.
• You will provide treatment to tangata whaiora on your caseload using evidence based therapy approaches
• Highly developed risk assessment is important as is your ability to develop effective rapport with people who may be mentally unwell or distressed.
• Assessment, development of treatment plans and liaising with whanau, other carers, NGOs, police, probation and other services is all part of the Community Mental Health Nurse role.
• Supporting and educating clinicians throughout the South Island is an essential part of the team - s work. As part of the team you will be required to take your turn to travel and present to fulfil this responsibility.
• You will be a respectful caring team player with conflict resolution ability.

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.

How to Apply

To view the position description and/or apply for the role please click - apply now. - All applications must be submitted through our online career - s portal before 11:59pm on Friday 18th July. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Natalie Gaunt at Natalie.Gaunt@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz.