Psychiatrist – Child & Adolescent – (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 child and adolescent psychiatry;
• Excellent working knowledge of the NZ mental health field including relevant legislation, eg the Mental Health Act;
• Five 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 assessment, diagnosis and treatment in collaboration with the service user, their family/whanau and carers and the multi-disciplinary team to promote recovery.
• Be involved in their on-call roster of child and adolescent psychiatrists from across the Auckland region;
• Thrive professional in providing your clinical expertise and knowledge to most areas of young peoples’ mental health.
• Be part of a collaborative based team;
• Supporting clinical case management, communication and liaison, teaching and supervision, service development, cultural safety and professional development, details of which are available via a position description.