Rehabilitation Assistant, National Burn Centre

Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand; Auckland; Presencial; NZD 26 000 - 34 000; Tempo parcial

Resumo da oferta

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora invites applications for a Rehabilitation Assistant at the National Burn Centre. This Permanent, Part Time 0.6FTE position offers remuneration per PSA Allied Health MECA guidelines.

You will collaborate with Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists to help patients reach functional goals by assisting with personal care, mobility, and exercise programs, and by ensuring equipment is ordered and maintained.

Qualificações

• Experience as a therapy assistant preferred.
• NZ drivers licence required.
• Sewing skills would be a bonus.
• Ability to work well in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsabilidades

• Assisting with personal care.
• Assisting with kitchen programmes.
• Helping patients to mobilise and perform their exercise programmes.
• Ensuring appropriate equipment are ordered and maintained.
• Stock taking and ordering new stock.
• Ability to take directions and good communication skills.

Conhecimentos

Personal care

Communication skills

Time management

Driver's licence

Sewing skills

Flexibility

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Rehabilitation Assistant, National Burn Centre

Permanent, Part Time 0.6FTE Remuneration: As per the PSA Allied Health MECA guidelines

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and remains committed to delivering equitable, accessible, and culturally responsive healthcare services for all New Zealanders.

The Opportunity:

Do you enjoy helping people reach their health goals? The Burns, Plastics and Paediatric team at Middlemore Hospital is looking for an individual to help provide excellent care to our patients.

You will work alongside Occupational therapists and Physiotherapists to help patients achieve their functional potential by:

• Assisting with personal care


• Assisting with kitchen programmes


• Helping patients to mobilise and perform their exercise programmes


• Ensuring appropriate equipment are ordered and maintained


• Stock taking & ordering new stock


• Ability to take directions and good communication skills


• Previous experience in a therapy assistant role (preferred)


• Good time management and ability to juggle clinical and non-clinical workloads


• Sewing skills would be a bonus


• A full NZ drivers licence

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 Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

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.

Job details

Job Reference:

Job Reference: CMH202617930

Location:

North Island - Auckland - South & East Auckland

Job type:

Expertise:

Clinical - Allied Health - Therapy Assistant