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About the service

The role of Te Korowai Whāriki, which encompasses both the Regional Forensic Mental Health Service and the Regional Rehabilitation Mental Health Service, is to provide quality inpatient and outpatient care for youth and adult clients.

As regional services, we deliver to the Wellington, Manawatu, Whanganui, Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa and Tairawhiti districts.

Our Regional Rehabilitation Service provides specialist inpatient services for clients with high support and complex needs, delivered in a range of settings from minimum security, to ‘open’ rehabilitation and independent cottages on the Rātonga-Rua site. Clients return to their district of domicile for ongoing care.

Our Forensic Service works closely with the justice system to provide secure assessment, treatment and rehabilitation services for mentally ill adult offenders and alleged offenders, and secure assessment and treatment services for youth offenders and alleged offenders. We also liaise with secondary services for those adults and youth who present with challenging behaviours and who pose a high risk of offending.

The Forensic and Rehabilitation inpatient service’s buildings are located on a site that has been gifted the name Rātonga -Rua-O-Porirua, translating to “The Two Services of Porirua”. The site includes an activity centre, chapel, and Māori and Pacific cultural centres. We also have Nga Taiohi, the National Youth Forensic Mental Health Unit, located at the adjacent Kenepuru Community Hospital in Porirua.

Our regional forensic community teams provide mental health care to the regional prisons, youth offending units and youth justice facilities. They also deliver court liaison work to adult and youth courts, and care for community clients who require supervision and support by virtue of their status as Special Patients or who have ongoing need for forensic community support.

Opportunities with us

Be part of delivering specialist intervention for clients within the Regional Forensic and Rehabilitation Service.

We are a dynamic, supportive, friendly service, providing an environment that promotes staff education and development. There are creative options for accommodating individual experience, interest and expertise.

Professional development is addressed through excellent training opportunities and support for further university studies.

Career opportunities include:

  • Registered Nurses
  • Adult and Youth Community and Justice Liaison Nurses
  • Social Workers
  • Māori and Pacific cultural staff
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Registered Clinical Psychologists
  • Consultant Psychiatrists

 


New to Porirua or Aotearoa New Zealand?

Porirua city is nestled between rolling hills, sitting alongside two harbours and a coastline that stretches for 56 km. Our people are friendly and come from diverse backgrounds which reflect Aotearoa New Zealand’s many cultures.

This beautiful coastal environment offers quiet walks on sandy beaches, fishing, scuba diving, swimming, kayaking and much more. It has a large aquatic centre, cinemas, parks, shopping malls, a 12 hectare retail centre and the Pataka Museum and Gallery, a nationally respected cultural centre. Learn more about life in Porirua.

Porirua is within easy reach of airports, trains, the interisland ferry and State Highway 1. Porirua is just 20 minutes’ drive north of Wellington, where you can connect with all the culture and opportunity our capital city has to offer. Learn more about life in Wellington.

We also recruit to forensic roles based in Hawkes Bay (Napier, Hastings – with outreach to Tairawhiti); Palmerston North; Whanganui (where we have another medium secure forensic unit as well as a Regional Forensic Community Team) and Masterton.

Contact us

To learn more about a role in the Regional Forensic and Rehabilitation Service, contact Fiona Atoni.

For more information about careers at MHAIDS please email recruitment@ccdhb.org.nz or visit our career centre to search psychiatry, nursing or allied health vacancies.