- Where you’ll be working: Waikato Hospital – Acute Social Work Team
- Qualified/NZ Registered Social Worker
- The details: Full-time Permanent–80 Hours per fortnight (1.0 FTE) including rostered 1 day in the weekend in
About the Role
Exciting opportunities for qualified practitioner to join the Acute Social Work services and undertake full-time (1.0 FTE) permanent position within Waikato Hospital. This position is to cover the area of Paediatric/Women’s Health, however it may be that the position could cover elsewhere within the hospital. The hours are from 0730-1600; the successful applicant will need to be available for rostered 1 day in the weekend.
If you are interested and have a passion to focus on health equity for Maori and Pacifica population we would
love to hear from you A wide range of education, training and learning opportunities are offered to our allied health staff,
About the Team/Service
As part of our Health NZ family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Our Social Work team covers the Emergency Department, Critical Care, Medicine, Surgery, Women's Health, Paediatrics, Older Persons & Rehabilitation, Renal, Oncology and Community. Although our team works within a range of health services in hospital and community-based settings throughout the Waikato district, they report professionally to a manager within our Allied Health Service
About you
Our ideal candidate will have experience in service development, case management skills as well as the following attributes:
- Psycho-social assessment and intervention
- Intimate partner violence screening, assessment and intervention
- Child protection and vulnerable adult assessment and intervention
- Individual and family counselling skills
- Therapeutic social work
- A commitment to bicultural practice
- Knowledge of the emotional and social impacts of changing health status.
- Experience in service development
- Ability to navigate access to a wide variety of resources and support services
Future social work service delivery hours may be extended, therefore the successful applicant may need to be available for rostered on-call weekend work
How to Apply
All applications must be submitted through our online careers’ portal before 11:59 pm on 29 August 2025. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Elisa Travailleur at [email protected].
We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.
