Health Improvement Practitioner (Wellness Advisor) - Local Doctors - Weymouth

Tamakihealth; Weymouth; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and award-winning team as a Health Improvement Practitioner in Weymouth, where you'll play a vital role in enhancing the well-being of diverse communities. This exciting position involves providing brief behavioral and psychological interventions in busy GP clinics, working collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team. You'll receive comprehensive training, supervision, and mentoring to ensure you thrive in this role. If you're passionate about making a difference in people's lives and improving community health, this opportunity is perfect for you. Be part of a supportive environment where your skills can shine and contribute to meaningful change.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate qualification enabling therapeutic work with clients.
• Registration with a relevant health practitioners body required.

Responsibilities

• Provide brief behavioral and psychological interventions for health and wellbeing.
• Support nurses and GPs in promoting well-being in routine care.

Skills

Therapeutic Interventions

Cultural Competency

Team Collaboration

Mental Health Support

Education

Post-graduate qualification

Tools

Evidence-based therapeutic models

Job description

Health Improvement Practitioner – Wellness Advisor - Local Doctors - Weymouth

• Are you a psychologist, psychotherapist, mental health nurse, social worker, AOD practitioner, counsellor or occupational therapist?
• Would you like to be part of a large award winning, supportive and a multi-disciplinary team with a strong team culture?
• Do you have the cultural and linguistic abilities to work in our diverse Tāmaki Makaurau communities?
• Do you enjoy making a difference in people's lives?
• Are you passionate about improving our community and population health?
• Would you like to work in primary care and support people sooner rather than later?

We invite you to come and join our growing team of 60+ members at the leading edge of providing well-being support to our multi-cultural communities!

The role:

This is an exciting, generalist role based in our GP clinics providing brief behavioural and psychological interventions to support mental and physical health and wellbeing for our clinic populations. Our clinics are predominantly busy, walk-in clinics, and an important part of the role is supporting nurses and GPs to promote well-being in routine GP care. This role will see you working alongside multi-cultural GP teams, health coaches and community support workers in a collaborative and integrated manner.

Successful applicants will receive the required training including ongoing supervision and mentoring.

Eligibility for the role includes:

• A post-graduate qualification enabling you to work therapeutically with clients
• Registration with a registering body under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act (HPCA) (for example, psychologist, social worker, etc) and/or full membership with NZAC
• Experience working with clients and their whānau with at least 6 months experience in a team or clinical setting
• Experience in working in evidence-based therapeutic models particularly brief psychological interventions

Who are we?

Tāmaki Health's “Wellness Support Team (WST)