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October 9, 2024

Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Waikato

Hamilton

FULL TIME


Consultant Psychiatrist Home Based Treatment

Consultant Psychiatrist Home Based Treatment
Job Number: WAI28230

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 whānau 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 tāngata whaiora and their whānau receive integrated, appropriate, effective, and efficient assessment and care

Click here to view the position description.
(Please note position descriptions can only be viewed on the Te Whatu Ora, Waikato website.)

Mō tātou Ratonga | About our Service
We are the Mental Health and Addictions Service arm of Health New Zealand | Te Whatu - Waikato. Home Based Treatment sits within our Crisis Assessment and Home Treatment (CAHT) team
The Crisis Team provides support to service users experiencing acute crisis in the community. They are responsible for the assessment and provision of short term care for people in crisis. They are experts in acute care management, and operate 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.
As part of the interventions available Home Based Treatment (HBT) offer an alternative to hospital admission and are available from 8am to 8pm 7 days per week. Our goal is always to support service users in the least restrictive environment, and so if hospital admission is being considered for a service user, we encourage that HBT is considered first. HBT is a multidisciplinary service that provides a comprehensive and intensive package of intervention for up to 3 weeks.

Mōu | 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 participate in 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. To discover more about our stunning area, please click here.

  • 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.

Tō mātou whakahaere ki te tika, te rerekētanga, me te whai wāhi 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 whānau 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 Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

Me pēhea 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 Kay.Nisbet-Smith@waikatodhb.health.nz

Closing date: Open until filled

Nau mai haere mai - Come join the team!

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