Available Opportunities To Work With Your Focus

Welcome. We are always looking for suitably qualified therapists to join our team.

If you would like more personal assistance, please email us at recruit@yourfocus.co.nz.

We currently have a range of contract opportunities, and we have several exciting opportunities in the pipeline. We are grateful to, and committed to supporting our providers in any way we can, to enable them to get on with the daily work of making positive changes in people’s lives.

We understand the complexities of being a therapist. Particularly a trauma therapist. Because we are a therapist led organization, we have the professional and personal experience to provide meaningful support. And we do.

We value you.

If you like the idea of contracting to a therapy led business that is nationwide, and that gives you unparalleled support, please see below for opportunities you may be interested in. We are continually adding new contracts and developing our own business ideas for sources of referral. We will keep you updated on these opportunities.

We would love to hear from you.

  • our Focus is a therapy led New Zealand owned business. Ms Sam Mitchell, the director, is herself an experienced registered integrative psychotherapist, specializing in EMDR, and who has contracted to ACC for over 26 years.

    Sam maintains a small private practice, alongside running the business, in order to keep her skills up (and she enjoys this). Sam has a lot of understanding of the ACC process from a provider point of view, and this makes her the supplier that she is.

    When Sam first became ACC approved, she received minimal support with the application, and no support with writing reports or understanding the complexities of delivering the contract. This made the work more stressful than it needed to be. Sam is committed to her providers having a different experience than this.

    Becoming a contractor for ACC, or any other contracts that we have, can be daunting in the beginning, but we have many processes, resources and support in place to make it as easy as possible.

    We give you hands-on help to become approved for any of the contracts that we service and to deliver the contract.

    We have a personal connection with all of our providers, and we have outstanding support like no other supplier in Aotearoa, which is why our business has grown, largely by word of mouth, as rapidly as it has. Regardless of how many providers we have, we continue to build personal relationships with all providers right from the beginning of our working relationship.

    You know that when you work for us you will always be supported in the work that you do as we understand, respect, and honour the complexities of working with trauma, and being a therapist, and running a private practice That’s because we have done, and still do, all those things too. We are grateful to have you working on our team.

    We provide practical tips for running a private practice.

    • We support you to build a sustainable practice by providing a range of referral opportunities.

    • We provide practical tips for self-care.

    • We produce a regular newsletter that covers many topics for professional consideration, highlights our providers and their services, tips on ACC including updates, resources and links of interest and more. These are all available on the website.

    • We have a low administrative fee, and we have the most user-friendly CMS invoicing system in the country. Payments are made weekly.

    • We are continually adding new opportunities for different avenues of referral for you.

    • We have a provider log in page that has an abundance of information, resources and more.

    • We have training videos available on how to write reports and assist you with reports until you get used to them.

    • We have invested in a database that holds all your information that we can search easily to make referrals. We also have an availability form that synchs with this database, so we are aware of your availability at all times, and this lessens emails. This database and availability form will dovetail perfectly with the upcoming requirements for suppliers with the new contract that will be launched in December 2024.

    • We keep you up to date with professional development and trauma training.

    • We advocate on your behalf with ACC.

Contracts We Service

SCS: Sensitive Claims contracts

  • ACC Sensitive Claims Provider

  • ACC Sensitive Claims - Specialist Assessor

  • ACC Sensitive Claims Group Facilitator

  • SCS Assessor For Functional Assessment (previously called Incapacity Assessments and are for loss of earnings)

For more information about these contracts and to apply please click here.

Other Contracts

For these contracts click on the link to be take to the application form.

Psychological Services Contract Assessor and/or Treatment Provider & Application Form

You can review the ACC Service Schedule For Psychological Services here.

It involves conducting an assessment for a client who has a physical injury, and to assess if they have a mental injury as a result of the physical injury, and to make treatment recommendations.

NB: You can choose to either be an assessor only, a treatment provider only or both.

  • This contract is for psychologists only. Either you hold the contract or have experience in assessments or you would like to be provisionally registered to do this contract which requires a supervisor who also holds the contract, for a period.

    • Assessment of the Client’s current psychological status for the purposes of ACC’s treatment planning to address rehabilitation needs.

    • Identification of current barriers that are preventing rehabilitation towards independence.

    • Providing timely and appropriate, evidence-based psychological interventions to address the identified barriers, to achieve Client independence.

    • Providing Client education for self-management.

    • Providing early education to the family/whānau of the Client about the effects of psychological problems/mental injury to foster strong recovery/coping strategies and Client managed recovery and rehabilitation; and

    • Achieving agreed outcome specifications.

Psychological Services Contract Assessor and/or Treatment Provider Form

Please complete all the required fields below for the application to become a Psychological Services Contract Assessor and/or Treatment Provider. Once received, we will organise for you to have a zoom chat with Sam, and then we will send you a secure page that allows you to access and submit the appropriate application forms and documents. Personal assistance is available at any time. recruit@yourfocus.co.nz

You can review the ACC Service Schedule For Psychiatric Services here.

Assessment Purpose

The purpose of an Assessment is to provide psychiatric assessment, diagnosis and/or suitable rehabilitation options to a Client in the following circumstances:

  • Where possible differential diagnosis issues have been identified.

  • Prior to referral for rehabilitation or pain management service (e.g. Residential Rehabilitation Services).

  • To establish if the diagnosed injury has a causal link to the physical injury, workplace traumatic injury or treatment injury. A causal link to mental injury is established where the physical injury, traumatic event occurring during the course of the Client’s work, or non-covered treatment injury, was a significant or a material cause of the injury.

  • Ascertaining if the rehabilitation need is causally linked to the injury (both physical and mental) for which ACC has granted cover.

  • Medication review.

  • Where multiple rehabilitation options have been identified; and/or

  • To review the appropriateness of ongoing mental health treatment for a Client.

Eligibility Criteria

Open to psychiatrists.

Psychiatric Services Contract Form

Please complete all the required fields below for the application to assist with Psychiatric Services Contracts. Once received, we will organise for you to have a zoom chat with Sam, and then we will send you a secure page that allows you to access and submit the appropriate application forms and documents. Personal assistance is available at any time. recruit@yourfocus.co.nz

Psychiatric Services & Application Form

How To Contact Your Focus

Ms Sam Mitchell

  • Director of Your Focus Ltd / Reg Psychotherapist (PBANZ, NZAP) / EMDR Practitioner (EMDRAA) / ACC Supported Assessor

  • Email: sam@yourfocus.co.nz

  • Phone: (+64) 021 0812 2113 (WhatsApp or Text Only)

Ms Rosie Snelling

For Referrals

For Work Enquiries

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