Full Time, Permanent
Remuneration as per PSA Allied Health MECA guidelines
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders.
Make a difference for women, pēpi, and whaanau in South Auckland. We’re seeking an Advanced Clinician Social Worker to lead and deliver highly specialist, patient- and whaanau-centred care across Women’s Health—working closely with our multidisciplinary team and providing advanced input to the Second Trimester Termination of Pregnancy (STTOP) service.
Why this role
You’ll combine direct clinical practice with leadership—modelling evidence-informed care, offering specialist consultation, and supporting service development to drive equitable outcomes. You’ll coach and supervise colleagues, guide complex casework, and contribute to quality improvement, audit, and research that lifts practice standards across the service.
What you’ll do
- Hold a specialist clinical caseload, applying advanced assessment, clinical reasoning and intervention for complex presentations in Women’s Health, including STTOP.
- Communicate clearly and sensitively with patients, whaanau and partners across the continuum of care; lead case reviews and debriefs.
- Provide expert consultation, mentoring, professional supervision and training for allied health staff and students; coordinate student placements.
- Lead service innovation, quality initiatives, clinical guidelines/pathways and outcome monitoring; participate in audit and research, sharing learnings locally and regionally.
- Champion Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles—partnering, participation and protection—to advance health equity and culturally safe practice for Maaori and all communities we serve.
- Support safe weekend/on-call cover as required; complete documentation and activity data to organisational and professional standards.
About you
- Recognised Social Work qualification with current APC, and advanced/specialist postgraduate training (or working towards Masters).
- 6+ years’ post-graduate experience, including 3–4 years full-time in a relevant Women’s Health specialty; proven supervision/mentoring and quality improvement leadership.
- Skilled, compassionate communicator who can navigate highly sensitive, ethical situations with professionalism and resilience.
- Committed to equity, cultural safety, and interdisciplinary teamwork—organised, adaptable, and ready to innovate.
Working at Health New Zealand
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Maori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.
How to Apply
For more information on this role, please contact Amy Lin in the Recruitment Centre on amy.lin@middlemore.co.nz.
We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.
Job Number: CMH202515842
Applications Close: 02 September 2025
At Counties Manukau Health people and their lives matter to us. We are a values based and inclusive organisation that is committed to delivering the best health outcomes for our community. To help us achieve this we need a workforce that reflects the population we serve. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds who share our values and have a passion to work in our community and would greatly value seeing applicants from our Maaori and Pacific communities. We are also committed to our Disability Strategy, which focuses on people with disabilities; they are our patients, whaanau, community and our staff - all carefully considered in our action plan. Together we will improve the accessibility needs for everyone who has a disability. Our values are Valuing Everyone- Whakawhanaungatanga , Kind –Manaakitanga, Together –Kotahitanga, Excellent- Rangatiratanga. If these are your values too, then join us today.