Consultant Psychiatrist - Personality Disorder Service

About the role

Ngā Tai Oranga, The Healing Tides, a small multi-disciplinary team in Newtown, Wellington, is recruiting a Consultant Psychiatrist for its Personality Disorder Service. This is a permanent, part-time consulting role of 34.4 hours per week; other part-time roles within MHAIDS can be combined to make full-time employment. The role suits people who enjoy teaching and consulting, and involves supervising and advising mental health clinicians on people with severe distress, relationship and emotional dysregulation, often conceptualised as having borderline personality disorder or complex trauma.

Key responsibilities

• Provide supervision, consultation and advice to mental health service teams
• Teach clinicians emotion regulation skills, case conceptualisation and risk management
• Emphasise person-centred, compassionate formulations
• Offer regular consultations and teaching to other districts, and possibly join the DBT programme as a therapist

Required profile

• Vocational registration in Psychiatry with the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ)
• FRANZCP or equivalent qualification, able to register for vocational registration with the MCNZ
• Experience treating, assessing and formulating personality disorders, complex PTSD and co-morbid difficulties
• Experience in evidence-based therapies for this group, including clinically indicated risk-taking
• Ability to work in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team

Applications are made through the online careers page; recruitment agencies are welcome. The employer reviews and interviews applicants on an ongoing basis and may close early if the right candidate is found.