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**

**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply**

**Closing date**:Open until filled

**Nau mai haere mai - Come join the team