The Adult Community Mental Health and Addiction service provides a range of community based services, clinics, home visits to groups of people with moderate to severe mental illness.  The service is multi-disciplinary and includes staff such as psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers, cultural therapists, kaumatua, kaiawhina and consumer advisors.

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role

The Intake and Assessment Clinician-s role helps support facilitating access to mental health services in partnership with the people we support within the community. 

Key priorities of the role include:

• Triaging non-urgent referrals from a variety of sources in the community.
• Undertake face to face initial assessments. 
• Recognise that culturally safe practices are paramount, and liaise with relevant services to ensure people receive safe, high quality and equitable care.
• Assess and escalate any crisis/urgent referrals to the appropriate crisis mental health and addiction services 
• Works collaboratively alongside the community mental health teams and local service providers to access the most appropriate service/support for the person based on their requirements.
• Liaise with referrers, including local GP-s and community networks/NGO providers in the region to ensure people get appropriate, timely and person centred-care and feed back to them if there are any issues regarding quality of referrals

Moū - About you

• An experienced registered mental health professional (allied health or nursing) with at least 5 years of recent work experience in a DHB mental health service
• An up to date annual practicing certificate
• Experience in mental health triage and risk assessment
• Fully COVID-19 vaccinated

E pā ana ki a tatou - About us

Here at the 2DHBs (Capital & Coast District Health Board and Hutt Valley District Health Boards) 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.

The 2DHBs are pro-equity Health Organisations, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.