Psychologist - Critical Care

• Where you’ll be working: Waikato Hospital

• The details: Permanent Full time

• Salary details: Step1 – Step 12 range of the APEX Allied Scientific and Technical Multi- Employer Collection Agreement (MECA)

Are you interested in working in a supportive multi disciplinary team with exciting opportunities for service development and contemporary service delivery?

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

We are seeking a clinical or health psychologist, preferably with experience working within a health or hospital setting. This exciting new position is open to those who have an interest and passion for providing critical care services in a tertiary hospital setting. With around 4000 admissions a year to ICU and HDU, the critical care unit is an exciting, challenging and varied place of work.

This position entails providing specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for patients in a critical care setting, along with their key whanau or support people. You will work in partnership with other members of the MDT to support patients when they are the most unwell. There may be some scope for post critical care follow-up for those clients needing ongoing care but not eligible for other supports. We are looking for someone who understands the value of compassionate and collaborative working.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Identify patients at risk of psychological morbidity and plan specific evidence-based interventions to maximise outcomes.

• To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

• To contribute to the effective working of the team/service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.

About the Team/Service/ Location

Waikato Hospital is a large tertiary referral and teaching hospital, covering the vast majority medical and surgical specialties including major trauma, burns, paediatrics, and cardiac surgery with many patients far from home. Waikato is one of three regional burns units, a level 1 accredited trauma centre and a critical care retrieval centre receiving patients from across the Te Manawa Taki / Midland region, a region of 985,000 people.

lAbout you

• Skills and experience you’ll need to be considered for the role:

• New Zealand Psychologists Board (Te Poari Kaimātai Hinengaro o Aotearoa) registration and current annual practicing certificate (or in the process of obtaining).

• Experience working within a health or hospital setting is an advantage.

• An awareness and ability to work with the interaction between physical health trauma and psychological functioning.

• An ability to work autonomously completing comprehensive clinical assessments.

• An ability to work with a wide age range of health consumers.

• A strong team focus, with excellent communication and inter-personal skills.

• A commitment to achieving excellent clinical and business outcomes based on quality service delivery and outstanding and empathetic patients care.

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.

Located in the heart of the mighty Waikato, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, Waikato operates over a number of sites, Hamilton City our main campus and smaller community-based hospitals across our region. Hamilton City has easy access to beaches and mountains, so if your interests range from a host of water sports, mountain biking to vineyard lunches, the area has something for you right on your doorstep. To discover more about our stunning area, please click here.

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 26 January 2025. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Elisa Travailleur at elisa.travailleur@tewhatuora.govt.nz

Please note, we will be reviewing applications when received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.