Where you'll be working: Waikato
Details: Permanent Full time – 44 hours per week (42.5 hours per week (office hours) and 1.5 hours (averaged after-hours component)
Remuneration: ASMS MECA
Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity
This role offers great variety. You will work with a number of specialists both internally and externally and have the ability to maintain excellent working relationships.
This is a job where no two days are ever the same; you will see the full spectrum of psychiatry from enduring mental illness through to trauma, grief and distress.
You will work with supportive and caring colleagues within a close-knit team.
Key responsibilities of the role:
Provide quality clinical services to tamariki, rangatahi and their whanau within Te Whatu Ora Waikato boundaries.
As a clinical expert, you will ensure that the appropriate and current knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the area of psychiatry are applied to clinical situations and team decision making.
Participate in clinical partnership to ensure that tangata whaiora and their whanau receive integrated, appropriate, effective, and efficient assessment and care.
Mo tatou Ratonga | About our Service
We are the Mental Health and Addictions Service arm of Health New Zealand | Te Whatu - Waikato. The Mental Health Service for Older Persons (MHSOP) is a secondary specialist service for people over 65 years of age living in the Waikato District. Older people with functional and organic conditions, co-existing mental health and physical health needs or substance use problems benefit from this service.
The service includes a community team and an inpatient unit (OPR1) and provides a cohesive integrated service with medical staff working across both settings. The service has established links with aged care facilities. The service is family and whanau inclusive.
Mou | About you
Skills and experience you'll need to be considered for the role:
A Psychiatrist who is vocationally registered or eligible for vocational registration with the Medical Council of New Zealand.
A versatile and flexible clinician who has a passion for working as part of a team.
A person who is excited about and willing to contribute to service enhancement.
A clinician who is passionate about eliminating health inequities.
Ko ngaa hua o te noho ki roto o Waikato, te mahi hoki ki Te Whatu Ora, Waikato | The Benefits of living in Waikato and working for Te Whatu Ora, Waikato
Located in the heart of the mighty Waikato, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, Waikato operates over a number of sites, Hamilton City our main campus and smaller community-based hospitals across our region. Hamilton City has easy access to beaches and mountains, so if your interests range from a host of water sports, mountain biking to vineyard lunches, the area has something for you right on your doorstep.
As part of our Health NZ, Waikato family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
We offer flexible and agile working opportunities alongside our Health NZ, Waikato benefits and staff discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
To matou whakahaere ki te tika, te rereketanga, me te whai wahi mai | Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us. Skills are gained across many areas of life, not just in formal employment. If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the ad, but the experience was gained through whanau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your cover letter.
We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Maori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.
Me pehea te tuku tono | How to apply
Please apply online as applications are unable to be accepted via email. If you have any questions about the role please contact Kay Nisbet-Smith, Medical Staff Co-ordinator, Mental Health and Addictions Service ******
Closing date: Open Until Filled
Nau mai haere mai - Come join the team!
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