Remote Health Improvement Practitioner: Virtual Care

Pinnacle Group; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinnacle Group is seeking a registered health professional endorsed as a Health Improvement Practitioner (HIP) for a fully remote role based anywhere in Aotearoa New Zealand. You will connect with tāngata by video and phone, delivering brief, focused interventions to improve mental, physical, and social wellbeing.

Full-time or part-time hours will be considered. You will support clinics and whānau in rural and remote communities within an integrated care model, with day-to-day virtual teamwork

Qualifications

• Registered health professional with current practising certificate.
• Completed HIP training, endorsed as a HIP, with practice setting experience.
• Experience in therapeutic approaches such as Kaupapa Māori approaches, ACT, MI, FACT or CBT.
• Clinical experience delivering evidence-based psychological interventions in health settings.
• Confidence building rapport with tangata via video and phone.
• Must be culturally responsive with health equity and Te Tiriti o Waitangi knowledge.
• Strong self-motivation and ability to work autonomously from home while staying connected to a virtual team.
• NZ driver’s licence and reliable internet with private home space for clinical work.

Responsibilities

• Work as a generalist, seeing people of any age via video and phone, providing brief behavioural health interventions with high-volume impact.
• Provide timely handover appointments with practice teams, including same-day virtual contacts where possible.
• Follow virtual care protocols for consent, privacy, identity, risk assessment and escalation.
• Participate in primary care teams virtually and through occasional face-to-face visits within Pinnacle network.
• Help plan and run virtual therapeutic groups, clinical pathways and internal education sessions.
• Use data to continually improve service delivery at individual, practice and population levels.

Skills

Registered health professional

HIP endorsement

Telehealth delivery

Cultural responsiveness

Autonomous work from home

Job description

Pinnacle Group is seeking a registered health professional endorsed as a Health Improvement Practitioner (HIP) for a fully remote role based anywhere in Aotearoa New Zealand. You will connect with tāngata by video and phone, delivering brief, focused interventions to improve mental, physical, and social wellbeing.

Full-time or part-time hours will be considered. You will support clinics and whānau in rural and remote communities within an integrated care model, with day-to-day virtual teamwork