Registered Nurse, Acute Care Service (Crisis Team) - Casual, Tauranga-Based

Registered Nurses - Casua
Acute Care Team (Crisis Service)
Adult Community Mental Health & Addiction Service
Based in Tauranga
Bay of Plenty District Health Board

Casual Positions

We are looking for Registered Nurses to join our dynamic, innovative, and friendly team on a casual basis. The focus is to deliver high quality care to the growing population in the Bay of Plenty. At the heart of our services are ourCAREvalues -Compassion,All-one-team,Responsive andExcellence
Applications are welcome from Registered Nurses, with at least three years' experience of working in mental health to join the Acute Care Pathway Team which is inclusive of intake here in Tauranga on a casual basis. Registered Nurses' Scope of Practice must include Mental Health.
The service is undergoing an exciting new development and the Crisis Service will form part of an Acute Care Pathway across Adult Community Mental Health & Addictions. Crisis workers will integrate timely acute assessment and short term therapeutic engagement with the intent of:

• Provision of advice and assistance
• Resolution of the mental health crisis
• Facilitating transition along the care pathway for service-users and their families
• Linking consumers to primary care providers and appropriate community agencies.
We have a commitment to working in partnership and collaboration with consumers, family/whanau and the community.
We provide a supportive environment, opportunities for career development and participation in service development.
For further enquiries only please contact Beth Thomas - Phone 07 579 8379
At BOPDHB, our values of Compassion, All-one-team, Responsive and Excellence are at the centre of everything we do. We use values-based recruitment to help us recruit people who share our values, as we know this makes a positive difference to job satisfaction and the experience of our patients and their families/whanau. For more information about our values and working at BOPDHB, please visit our website www.bopdhb.govt.nz
All positions at the BOPDHB are subject to safety checks; in addition the candidate may be required to supply evidence of Transmissible Disease Immunity at their own cost.
This is classified as a vulnerable persons' worker role, therefore subject tosafety check requirements
Please click here to view Registered Nurse position description
Applications close: Ongoing,and must be made online