Consultant Psychiatrist - Personality Disorder Service (Consulting role)

Location:  Mein Street, Newtown, Wellington 

Service:    Ngā Tai Oranga, The Healing Tides - Personality Disorder Service 

Contract:  Permanent, part time - 20 hours p/w (there are other part-time roles available within MHAIDS that can be combined to make full time employment)

Salary:      As per ASMS SECA

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence. 

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to work for Ngā Tai Oranga, The Healing Tides, Personality Disorder Service – Consulting role. 

The role will be appealing to those who enjoy teaching and consulting which is a significant part of the role.We are a small multi-disciplinary team based in Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand. The role is diverse as it involves providing supervision and consultation, therapies and teaching mental health clinicians about tāngata whaiora (service users) with severe distress intolerance,relationship and emotional dysregulation that impacts on their life (across the lifespan) and their significant others and whānau. The people we work with are often conceptualised as having borderline personality disorder and or complex trauma and relational responses.

We provide consultation, supervision and advice to mental health service teams. We offer teaching on emotion regulation skills, case conceptualisation, and risk management. We emphasise person-centred compassionate formulations. We have contracts with other districts and provide regular consultations and teaching to these regions. There is an opportunity to be part of our dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) programme as a therapist.

About the Team/Service/ Location

The Mental Health, Addiction and Intellectual Disability Service (MHAIDS) spans across Wairarapa, Hutt Valley and Capital and Coast and includes local, regional, and national services. The local MHAIDS services are provided from multiple sites within the 3 sub-region – greater Wellington, Hutt Valley and Wairarapa. Te Korowai Whariki services include regional forensic and rehabilitation services covering the Central region while the intellectual disability services extend the length and breadth of the country from six bases located in Whangarei, Auckland, Cambridge, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley district is located centrally in Wellington and has over 6,000 full-time equivalent staff, making us one of the major employers in the Wellington region. We operate three hospitals – Wellington Regional Hospital in Newtown, Hutt Valley Hospital and Kenepuru Hospital in Porirua – as well as the Kāpiti Health Centre at Paraparaumu.

About you

• Vocationally registered in Psychiatry with the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ)
• FRANZCP or equivalent qualification and be able to register for vocational registration with the MCNZ
• Experience working with, treating, assessing and formulating personality disorders, complex PTSD and other co-morbid difficulties and,
• Experience in evidence based therapies for treating this group of tāngata whaiora including experience in clinically indicated risk taking
• Work in collaboration with multidisciplinary team
• Relevant experience and training

Working for Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness’. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

How to apply

To apply please click “apply now.” All applications must be submitted through our online careers’ 

If you have any questions about the role, please email sandra.tam@ccdhb.org.nz

We will review and interview applicants on an ongoing basis, recruitment process may closed early if the right candidate is found.

We are accepting recruitment agency’s applicants, please apply online.