Consultant Psychiatrist

**Location**: Puketiro Centre, Porirua
**Service**: Te Whare Mārie Specialist Māori Mental Health Service

**Contract**: Permanent, full time

**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 Te Whare Mārie Specialist Māori Mental Health Service.

Come and join our dynamic multidisciplinary team to support whaiora to achieve their potential, while being supported to grow and understand Matauranga Māori and deliver care through a holistic lens.

In this role you'll provide clinical oversight and guidance/education for kaimahi, ability to bring your expertise to the fore. Speciality assessments and interventions, oversight of prescribing.

You can be assured of a great variety in your work and you must have a great sense of humour and a flexible style of working.

**About the Team/Service/ Location**

Te Whare Mārie is a progressive service that offers Specialist Māori Mental Health Services throughout the Wellington and greater region. Te Whare Mārie offers effective and appropriate assessment, treatment and care management to Tangata Whaiora and Whanau in a cultural setting, emphasising whanaungatanga, tikanga and Te Reo development.

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
- 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