Psychologist or Allied Health Professional

• Improve outcomes for clients
• Further your career within an exciting field of work within the disability sector
• Personal and professional development
• Permanent position with flexible hours

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Enrich+ within the Specialist Support Team for a Psychologist or Health Professional (Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist) to further develop and deliver services for people within the disability sector in the Waikato. This is a varied role within a growing team and will allow the successful applicant to flexibly deliver a range of evidence-based interventions to our expanding client base.

Our vision at Enrich+ is to enable the people we support to ‘have a life like any other’. We pride ourselves on excellence, professionalism and on being driven by the people we support. We are looking for people who are passionate about supporting others, and excited about opportunities as the service grows and develops.

As a psychologist you will be responsible for:

• Working with individuals to provide quality, holistic, individualised programmes of intervention and outcomes as identified through thorough assessment;
• Assisting with providing specialist support and training to Enrich+ staff;
• Maintaining a high standard of expertise, both practical and theoretical in your own discipline.

We are looking for someone who meets the following requirements:

• Registered Psychologist or Health Professional with a current APC;
• Proven work experience with those with dual diagnoses (disability and mental health);
• Able to deliver ACT, CBT and similar evidence-based therapies, modified as needed to suit the population of clients;
• Ideally you will have experience with a variety of assessments including autism assessment (ADOS, ADI-R or similar);
• Knowledge and understanding of how neurodiverse young people and adults see the world;
• Willingness to interact and support a broad range of people with different needs and from different cultural backgrounds;
• A clean full driver’s license;
• Sound judgement and the ability to make decisions
• Excellent time management, planning and organisational ;skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to work within a team as well as autonomously.

Previous experience working as an ACC provider would be highly advantageous, as would experience in clinical supervision and/or appropriate supervision training.

If you are looking to make a difference and utilise your experience and knowledge, then we want to hear from you! This is a permanent position with flexible hours, full time or part time. Days and hours to be worked will be agreed with the successful candidate.

Applicants must hold New Zealand residency or have a current New Zealand work permit.