Oranga Tamariki in the PSA
This page is intended as a resource for members from Oranga Tamariki to find key documents related to PSAs involvement in Oranga Tamariki. It also aims to provide a 'one stop shop' for other important info around projects, delegates and news.
Click here to see your National Delegates and your Rūnanga National Delegates for 2019-2021, or check out the Oranga Tamariki National Delegates map here or your National Office Delegates here.
Have a look through the tabs below to find some useful items
We are mindful that Oranga Tamariki’s SOSHI2 mechanism is not always fit for purpose, and so the PSA have designed our own PSA at OT Incident Report.
Similar to the SOSHI2, the PSA at OT Incident Report is for members to report incidents that impact their health and safety in the workplace.
We still encourage members to always complete a SOSHI2 when appropriate, but we also strongly encourage members to complete this Incident Form to enable the PSA to construct a record of incidents of bullying and harassment, excessive workloads, and other issues that may impact kaimahi ora.
CLICK HERE to download the PSA at OT Incident Report 2020*
*Note: You will need to open the form from your desktop to send, you cannot fill it out and send from within your web browser.
How does this form work?
This form is an interactive PDF, which means all you have to do is:
1) Download the PDF
2) Open the PDF on your computer
3) Add your answers
4) Click the big red SUBMIT button to automatically attach the form to an email, addressed to psaotwhs@psa.org.nz .
If you experience any problems, you can email the form directly to psaotwhs@psa.org.nz
There are four clusters, three are geographical, and the fourth comprises residences. Click on the links to see the delegates for each cluster.
- Cluster 1 – Upper North - Northland/Tāmaki Makaurau
- Cluster 2 – Lower North -Waikato down to Wellington
- Cluster 3 – South Island
- Cluster 4 – Residences
PSA is about being transparent and accountable to the membership, removing siloes and placing the members at the heart of the decision-making process.
We are an organic union that operates from the bottom up. The intent moving into the cluster model is to be much more regional focussed to increase engagement with members directly at the site level. We want members to be able to actively participate in the union with-out structural interference. We want to better know your hopes and desires as well as understand what existing operational challenges there are throughout our workplaces.
We are building our national and regional site delegate and health and safety representative networks by linking people together who share a common interest in both advocating and supporting their colleagues.
The practice expertise sits with members, and PSA will advocate for greater partnership in service design and ensure our aspirations for professional excellence in providing service to tamariki, rangitahi and whānau are delivered.
Eileen Kaveney is a PSA Rūnanga Delegate from Oranga Tamariki Lower Hutt Site, where she works as a Care and Protection Social Worker.
This korero is about Eileen's mahi in her role as our PSA Rūnanga delegate and how she incorporates her Māoritanga into her everyday mahi as a social worker.
See the table below for all Oranga Tamariki newsletters:
Date Sent | Subject Line |
25 August | Oranga Tamariki: TÄmaki Makaurau Level 3 |
11 August | Oranga Tamariki Update Kaimahi ora and managers' collective bargaining |
14 July | Oranga Tamariki Section 7AA - Te Korowai o Wairuatanga |
30 June | PSA Health and Safety Representatives Steering Committee |
02 June | PSA Update for Oranga Tamariki June |
25 May | PSA Oranga Tamariki 2020 - 9 |
14 May | Oranga Tamariki Residence PSA Update 4 |
07 May | Oranga Tamariki update for FGC Co-ordinator Members only |
23 April | Oranga Tamariki Residences PSA Update 2 |
14 April | Oranga Tamariki updated advice for working from home |
07 April | Oranga Tamariki Residences PSA Update 1 |
06 April | OT Update - Stay at Home |
27 March | Oranga Tamariki as an essential service |
24 March | PSA @ OT - Staying Connected During COVID-19 |
22 February | OT Newsletter - 22 February 2020 |
December 2019 | OT Newsletter - December 2019 |
Resources
RESOURCES | |
National Delegate & National Rununga Delegate Minutes Teleconference 8 June | |
Manager's Collective bargaining update August 11 | |
Worker Participation Agreement 2020-2023 | |
Letter to Social Workers Registration Board | |
Letter to Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers | |
The professional development fund is a PSA member only benefit for people working at Oranga Tamariki who are covered by the main collective. The fund is administered by three PSA delegate and three Oranga Tamariki representatives.
Applications for the fund can be sent to:
PSA_Professional_Development_Fund@ot.govt.nz
The application form and criteria can be found here:
Criteria-for-Professional-Development-Fund.pdf
Form-for-Professional-Development-Fund.pdf
Introducing the latest development from your PSA organisers, convenors, and delegates, the PSA @ OT podcast. The purpose of this podcast is to help get the important messages to you, our members, as another medium in addition to our social media and newsletters.
Episode 13: Pink Shirt Day and reporting workplace incidents
Episode 8: Korero at PSA House
Episode 7: Return to Level 1
Episode 6: Manawatu Taranaki Regional Hui
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Episode 5: Workloads
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Episode 4: On the ground at Tāmaki Makaurau
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Episode 3: Strategic Engagement Meeting feedback
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Episode 2: FGC meeting and Residences update
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Introducing the latest development from your PSA organisers, convenors, and delegates, the PSA @ OT podcast. The purpose of this podcast is to help get the important messages to you, our members, as another medium in addition to our social media and newsletters.
Episode 1: Introducing your organisers and convenors
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PSA-Submission-on-Kairaranga-Role-Aug-2019
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The PSA Rūnanga national delegates wrote a submission about the Kairaranga role currently being consulted on.
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Reccomendations-to-project-governance-SWRA-Admin-Review
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This document was written to the Project Governance group from Oranga Tamariki with the recommendations from the SWRA/Admin delegate team. These recommendations were based on analysing the huge amount of feedback we got in consider this. There will be final results in all changes once we get a decision from Oranga Tamariki.
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Oranga-Tamariki-CA-December-2018-to-June-2021
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This is the collective agreement covering the majority of workers within Oranga Tamariki.
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Terms-of-settlement-OT-2018-2021
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| Last Changed: 27/06/2019 9:14am
This document supplements the collective agreement describing the agreements reached between Oranga Tamariki and the PSA in bargaining.
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Terms-of-settlement-CYF2016
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This is the terms of settlement from the last bargaining done under the CYF brand when CYF was a part of the Ministry for Social Development. Many of the commitments remain- for example those around transporting.
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Change-process-protocol-final-2019
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These are the high level principles that underpin how we at the PSA expect Oranga Tamariki to engage with us on different types of change. It is worthwhile knowing these so that members can ensure the organisation follows these and includes us at every stage.
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PSA-Relationship-Agreement-14.6.18-Final
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| Last Changed: 26/06/2019 1:59pm
The relationship agreement describes how our delegate structures work, how we can escalate issues and also detail the agreements between Oranga Tamariki and the PSA on delegate release and engagement. Individual sites then fill in a site agreement agreeing their specific needs.
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Oranga-tamariki-casework-and-workload-survey
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| Last Changed: 26/06/2019 2:00pm
This is a survey undertaken of PSA members who held a caseload in 2018. Designed to update some of the basic data gathered in the 2014 Work and caseload review it captures critical information on the pressure on members and was sent to the Minister.
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OT-Gender-Pay-Gap-Action-Plan-final-2019
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The PSA work with Oranga Tamariki every year to put together a gender pay action plan. Every agency in the public service is required to have a gender pay action plan and look to eliminate gender bias at every stage in the employment life cycle. (Recruitment, promotion etc.) The PSA monitor progress on this work throughout each year.
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Gender-Pay-Gap-Data-Analysis-for-SSCfinal
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This is the data that we look at and continue to monitor for the purposes of eliminating gender and ethic bias within Oranga Tamariki when it comes to pay and progression. Take a look- still lots of work to be done.
- Terms-of-Settlement-for-SW-Pay-Equity-Claim- pdf | 256 KB | Last Changed: 27/06/2019 2:34pm