Consultant Psychiatrist Community

About the Role
This is a permanent full-time position with 44 hours per week. The role offers great variety, and you will work with specialists both internally and externally to maintain excellent working relationships.

No two days are ever the same in this job, as 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:
Provide quality clinical services to people seeking wellness and their family/whanau within Te Whatu Ora Waikato boundaries.
As a clinical expert, ensure that the appropriate and current knowledge, skills, and attitudes in psychiatry are applied to clinical situations and team decision making.
Participate in clinical partnership to ensure that people seeking wellness and their family/whanau receive integrated, appropriate, effective, and efficient assessment and care.
About Our Service
We are the Mental Health and Addictions Service arm of Health New Zealand Te Whatu - Waikato.

We provide specialist services for people who are experiencing serious mental health difficulties.

We strongly encourage family/whanau involvement in the recovery journey of their loved ones.

As a community-based service, we are open Monday to Friday.

We work with community partners across the Waikato.

About You
To be considered for this role, you must be a Psychiatrist who is vocationally registered or eligible for vocational registration with the Medical Council of New Zealand.

A versatile and flexible clinician with 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.

The Benefits of Living in Waikato and Working for Te Whatu Ora, Waikato
Located in the heart of the mighty Waikato, we operate over a number of sites, including Hamilton City as our main campus and smaller community-based hospitals across our region.

Hamilton City has easy access to beaches and mountains, offering a range of activities such as water sports, mountain biking, and vineyard lunches.

We offer learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

Flexible and agile working opportunities alongside our benefits and staff discount schemes.

We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

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.

We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

Please apply online as applications are unable to be accepted via email. Read more