Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora – Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District
Location: Hutt Valley
Service: Te Herenga Tangata Community Older Persons, Rehabilitation and Allied Health team
Contract: Allied Health
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Salary: $60,510Kōrero mō te tūranga – About the role
The Allied Health Assistant role is a busy and interesting one as you will be undertaking a wide range of activities at the request of our Allied Health and Nursing staff. Day to day, you’ll be installing and teaching people how to use equipment and coaching people in exercise programmes and other activities designed to help recover strength, cognition and function.
An important part of the role will be reporting back to the team regarding progress, as well as noticing if our clients/whānau are struggling and require more support.
Mō tō mātou rōpū – About our team
Your colleagues will include Registered Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers, Doctors and a range of other staff across different services. Our Community Older Persons and Rehabilitation team has a focus on treating and supporting rehabilitation following illness and providing equipment/other compensatory strategies where people are living with long term impairments. We work across the entire Hutt Valley and link closely to a range of partner agencies.
The Allied Health Assistants are key members of the team and the range of activities in which you will be involved is likely to expand. We offer a supportive learning environment and a comprehensive orientation to the role.
Moū – About you
Our clients need someone kind, efficient, good at communicating and who is able to motivate people from a range of cultures. You’ll need to be able to effectively interpret and deliver on the work requested by our health professionals and be committed to on-going learning, either holding or being prepared to enrol for the New Zealand Certificate in Health and Wellbeing (Level 3) Health Assistance Strand.
We are committed to improving better health outcomes for Māori and Pacific whānau. As we continue to develop the way we work with Maori and Pacific whanau, we would value more applicants, with the right skills, from these communities.
If this role sounds like you, we’d would love to hear from you!
E pā ana ki a tatou – About us
Here at Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District we embrace diversity and welcome applications from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disability and religions. A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and serve our community.
Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.
To find out more about us click on the following links:
Capital and Coast
Hutt Valley
Mental Health, Addiction and Intellectual Disability Service
Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to apply
Click the apply now button to send your application directly to us. For further information on this role please email recruitment@ccdhb.org.nz and indicate the job title and vacancy number(23117356-23) in the subject line.
Your safety and that of our patients is important to us. It is our expectation that you will be fully vaccinated against COVID 19, having received two doses of an approved COVID 19 vaccination.
Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai
By joining together we will succeed
