• Location: Hawke’s Bay Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital
• Hours: Full-time and Part-time available, 64 - 80 hours per fortnight (0.6 - 1.0 FTE), Monday to Friday
• Employment: Permanent, Mental Health and Addiction, Ngā Harakeke mai Rongokako - Child, Adolescent and Family Service (CAFS)

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

Child, Adolescent and Family Service (CAFS) is the tertiary provider of mental health services to children and youth (0-18) in the Hawke’s Bay region.

The role includes diagnosis and treatment of a range of mental health conditions in children and adolescents, including neurodevelopmental disorder, mood disorders, eating disorders, psychoses and trauma-related presentations.

The multidisciplinary team is likely to look to you for clinical leadership, especially in relation to complex clinical problems. You will be supported by your peers within the service, the senior leadership of the Mental Health and Addictions Service and the expectation would be that you join the regional specialist child and adolescent psychiatry peer review group.

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About the Team/Service/Location

You will work within a multidisciplinary team that includes cultural support workers (kaiāwhina), psychologists, social workers, occupational therapist, nurses, a dietitian, and liaison with paediatricians. You will also need to collaborate with general practitioners, schools and Oranga Tamariki - the agency that has statutory responsibility for child welfare in New Zealand – non-government agencies and local iwi. You will need to engage with families and carers of patients.

About you

You will be vocationally registered in Psychiatry with the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) or hold equivalent qualification and be able to qualify for vocational registration with MCNZ.

You will have the following skills and attributes:

• Be passionate about working with children and families who present with complexity, in a holistic and child-centered way
• Have the ability to work flexibly and feel with a wide variety of presentations seen in childhood and adolescence
• Have a wide range of general psychiatric skills and hold or be eligible for Vocational Registration as a Child Psychiatrist with Medical Council of New Zealand
• Be able to provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team, with a commitment to continuous quality improvement. Be able to provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team, with a commitment to continuous quality improvement
• ·Be competent with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to starting your journey and taking ownership of your learning and growth
• Have experience in projects/initiatives which give effect to Te Tiriti principals and frameworks, and the application of Mātauranga Māori and Kaupapa Māori approaches, particularly as they apply in healthcare settings

Working for Health New Zealand

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.

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 our life, not just in formal employment.
• We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

How to Apply

Please click “apply now.” All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal before 11:59pm on 19 December 2024.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Dr Greg Young via email helen.frogley@hbdhb.govt.nz and indicate the job title and job reference in the subject line.

Please note, we will be reviewing applications when received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.