- We have an exciting permanent full time team leader position available, 40 hours per week.
- Regular hours Monday to Friday with ability to support weekend and evenings roster required
- Registered social worker with experience in health social work
About the Role
Our Social Work Team covers all the Christchurch Hospital Campus. We have six teams providing a 24/7 and Monday to Friday service across all departments. As a professional and highly skilled registered Social Worker, who displays a positive attitude and enthusiasm for Leadership, you will enjoy working in a fast-paced dynamic multidisciplinary environment. You will enjoy the challenges of working in a fluid environment responding to a diverse range of health needs working at top of you scope of practice.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- A clinical case load within a defined area of service delivery as agreed with the Social Work Clinical Manager, undertakes own clinical supervision and fulfils responsibilities for own performance appraisal.
- Works in partnership with the Social Work Clinical Manager and in partnership with other Clinical Team Leaders to ensure the appropriate skill mix and numbers of staff to meet current and future service demands.
- Ensures team members are informed of current and new/revised Health New Zealand Canterbury Social Work policies and procedures and obligations to comply
- Assists the Social Work Clinical Manager with the recruitment, selection, induction, training and development, performance management, annual performance appraisals and supervision of Social Work workforce.
- Supports and assists the Social Work Clinical Manager to undertake performance appraisals, coaching, mentoring of direct reports.
- Ensures legislative requirements are met in relation to professional practice and registration of direct reports
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Ensures professional supervision of direct reports is undertaken as required by the profession and Health New Zealand Canterbury Supervision Policy.
This role will see you working alongside different multidisciplinary teams so being a team player who can quickly adapt will be essential to your success. Our service is committed to the professional development of our staff and offers regular ongoing development opportunities.
About You
You will have Proven leadership experience and the ability to help build a culture of excellence in professional conduct, personal responsibility and accountability, leading by example. You'll foster an environment and culture that supports innovation and creativity in practice, continuous quality improvement, research, teaching, supervision and training and development of staff. It will be important to demonstrate effective clinical reasoning and evidence based practice and is a role model for ongoing professional development.
Working for Health New Zealand
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is 'the weaving of wellnesses'. 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.
We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.
How to Apply
To view the position description and/or apply for the role please click - apply now - on our careers page. All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal before 11:59pm on 6th August 2025. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Alex Jay at [email protected]
Please note, we will be reviewing applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process before the closing date of this advert therefore we encourage you to apply early.
