Job Description
Location: Hutt Hospital
Contract: Fixed Term (12 months), Full time / 1 FTE, Rostered and Rotating
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.
About the Role
The Advancing Wellness at Home Initiative (AWHI) team is a community team at Hutt Hospital works with people coming out of hospital post stroke, following an injury (under the Non-Acute Rehab contract) and also with medically unwell older people presenting to ED or Acute wards.
The team operates in a pull model, focussing on identifying patients who can rehabilitate and recover at home, earlier, in order to support with hospital flow.
Whilst this role will have a particular focus on Stroke, the service to Older Peop...