Social Work Team Leader - Christchurch Campus

Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury invites applications for a fixed term, full-time Team Leader within the Social Work Team serving the Christchurch Hospital Campus. The role focuses on leadership, clinical oversight, and high-quality health social work in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment.

The successful candidate will oversee a defined service area, mentor staff, and collaborate with the Clinical Manager to ensure optimal skill mix and service delivery.

Qualifications

• Registered social worker with experience in health social work.
• Proven leadership experience and ability to develop a culture of excellence.
• Strong clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities

• Manage a clinical caseload within a defined service area.
• Lead the Social Work team to ensure appropriate staffing and service delivery.
• Collaborate with Clinical Manager and multidisciplinary teams.
• Support recruitment, induction, training, and performance development.
• Ensure compliance with professional practice registration and supervision.

Skills

Leadership

Health social work

Clinical reasoning

Education

Registered Social Worker

Job description

We have an exciting fixed term, full time team leader position available, 40 hours per week until Dec 2027!

Regularhours Monday to Friday with ability to support weekend and evenings rosterrequiredRegisteredsocial worker with experience in health social work

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Orais firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicatedto serving all New Zealanders.

Through integration and collaboration, we'rebuilding a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability,whānau-centred care, and excellence.

About the Role

Our Social WorkTeam covers all the Christchurch Hospital Campus. We have six teams providing a24/7 and Monday to Friday service across all departments.

As a professional and highly skilledregistered 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 afluid environment responding to a diverse range of health needs working at topof you scope of practice.

In this role, youwill be responsible for:

• A clinical case load within a defined area of service delivery as agreed with theSocial Work Clinical Manager, undertakes own clinicalsupervision and fulfils responsibilities for own performance appraisal.
• Works in partnership with the Social Work ClinicalManager and in partnership with other Clinical Team Leaders to ensure theappropriate skill mix and numbers of staff to meet current and future servicedemands.
• Ensures team members are informed of current andnew/revised Health New Zealand Canterbury Social Work policies and procedures and obligations to comply.
• Assiststhe Social Work Clinical Manager with the recruitment, selection, induction,training and development, performance management, annual performance appraisalsand supervision of Social Work workforce.
• Supports and assists the Social WorkClinical Manager toundertake performance appraisals, coaching, mentoring of direct reports.
• Ensures legislative requirements are met in relation to professionalpractice and registration of direct reports
• Ensures professional supervision of direct reports is undertaken asrequired by the profession and Health New Zealand Canterbury Supervision Policy.
• This role will seeyou working alongside different multidisciplinary teams so being a team playerwho can quickly adapt will be essential to your success.
• Our service iscommitted to the professional development of our staff and offers regularongoing development opportunities.

About You

You will haveProven 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.

Please note this roleis open only to current staff of Health New Zealand. Please do not apply if youare not currently employed by Health New Zealand.

Working at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuringexcellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce thatis diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand andservice our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.