Rehabilitation Assistant, National Burn Centre

Permanent, Part Time 0.6FTE
Remuneration: As per the PSA Allied Health MECA guidelines 

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and remains committed to delivering equitable, accessible, and culturally responsive healthcare services for all New Zealanders.

The Opportunity:

Do you enjoy helping people reach their health goals? The Burns, Plastics and Paediatric team at Middlemore Hospital is looking for an individual to help provide excellent care to our patients. 

You will work alongside Occupational therapists and Physiotherapists to help patients achieve their functional potential by:

• Assisting with personal care
• Assisting with kitchen programmes
• Helping patients to mobilise and perform their exercise programmes
• Ensuring appropriate equipment are ordered and maintained
• Stock taking & ordering new stock
• Maintaining order spread sheets

Essential:

• Ability to take directions and good communication skills 
• Health Care Assistant qualification level 4 (preferred)
• Previous experience in a therapy assistant role (preferred)
• Good time management and ability to juggle clinical and non-clinical workloads
• Computer skills 
• Sewing skills would be a bonus
• A full NZ driver’s licence

Working at Health New Zealand

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

How to apply

To apply please click 'apply now'. All applications must be submitted through our online career’s portal by 22 October 2026. To review the position description, please click here.

For more information on this role, please contact Kirsten on kirsten.vanasten@tewhatuora.govt.nz or Amy on amy.lin@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz.

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert. 

At Counties Manukau Health people and their lives matter to us. We are a values based and inclusive organisation that is committed to delivering the best health outcomes for our community. To help us achieve this we need a workforce that reflects the population we serve. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds who share our values and have a passion to work in our community and would greatly value seeing applicants from our Maaori and Pacific communities. We are also committed to our Disability Strategy, which focuses on people with disabilities; they are our patients, whaanau, community and our staff - all carefully considered in our action plan. Together we will improve the accessibility needs for everyone who has a disability. Our values are Valuing Everyone- Whakawhanaungatanga , Kind –Manaakitanga, Together –Kotahitanga, Excellent- Rangatiratanga. If these are your values too, then join us today.