Lead Clinician Psychiatrist Brc/Acos Adult Inpatient & Community 06

Primary Requirements Include but aren’t limited to:
•Registerable with the New Zealand medical Council to practice Psychiatry;
•FRANZCP or equivalent;
•Experience and qualified in working collaboratively with clients, families, multi-disciplinary teams in both inpatient and community settings;
•Keen interest in clinical leadership and service development;
•Excellent working knowledge of the NZ mental health field including relevant legislation, eg the Mental Health Act;
•Three years or more clinical practice in mental health;
•Committed to a multi-cultural practice;
•Sound understanding and commitment to Recovery Principles;
•High standard of English fluency including verbal and written communications;
•PC literacy;
•Able and willing to commit at least 2-3 years to begin with; and
•Meet requirements for a work visa.
Primary job responsibilities include, but aren’t limited to:
•Provide operational clinical leadership to a multi-disciplinary team while maintaining your own clinical caseload;
•Partner with the Clinical Team Leader providing medical leadership on a day-to-day basis across the multi-professional team working within the specialist area of service;
•Contribute to the delivery of mental health services which allows you to thrive professional in providing your clinical expertise and knowledge;
•Provide the Service Clinical Director assurance on the clinical safety of the service;
•Provide support for the Service Clinical Director and Portfolio Performance Manager in achieving the goals of the service group
•Be part of a team which has a strong commitment to collaboration between clients, family, staff and their services;
•Be part of interagency liaison, training while contributing to ongoing service development;
•Be part of an on-call roster;
•Enjoy great support and equally impressive diversity utilising a variety of evidence based therapies and case management;
•Thrive professional in providing your clinical expertise and knowledge to most areas of young peoples’ mental health.
•Be part of a collaborative based team;
•Support clinical case management, leadership, operational, policy and risk management, undertake clinical practice, take responsibility for own aspects of professional development details of which are available via a position description.