• Mental Health Services for Older Adults, Auckland
• Permanent, part-time role
• Internal and external professional development opportunities

About us

Our community teams work with an ethnically diverse community, including Māori, Pacific, and Asian communities in urban and rural settings (the North Shore, Rodney District, and West Auckland).

Mental Health Services for Older Adults (MHSOA) provides community and inpatient services for people experiencing serious mental health issues.

We provide assessment, treatment and support to:

• people with severe mental disorders aged 65 or older
• people of any age with primary dementia and serious behavioural and/or psychological symptoms
• people with pre-existing severe mental health disorders who would be better cared for by MHSOA, either because of significant medical co-morbidities or frailty.

Kingsley Mortimer Unit (Ward 12) is a 19-bed inpatient unit on the North Shore Hospital site that provides inpatient assessment and treatment for older adults with mental health problems within the Waitematā district.

MHSOA has two community teams – one in the North Shore area covering Rodney District and urban North Shore, and one in West Auckland and Our Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Team (STaR), who work collaboratively across the district providing intensive support.

Teaching and supervising psychiatry trainees, house officers, and medical students can be part of your work. We are an accredited training service and have rotating pre-examination and advanced trainees in psychiatry of old age.

Clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team is a core function of our consultant psychiatrists’ work, and the MHSOA service operates a clinical governance model to ensure close involvement of clinicians in service development, service planning and quality improvement initiatives.

The Waitematā region has the largest population in New Zealand, allowing for a varied and exciting opportunity.

We offer:

• a positive culture and encourage leadership and development at all levels
• ongoing internal and external continued professional development opportunities
• generous relocation assistance.

About you

You will:

• be vocationally registered with the Medical Council of New Zealand with a current Annual Practising Certificate, or be eligible for application
• hold a full and clean New Zealand driver’s licence
• be willing to commit to improving services and increasing positive outcomes, particularly for Māori.

How to apply

To apply please click ‘apply now’. All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal by Wednesday, 20 May 2026. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Agnes Dawidowska, Acting Clinical Director agnes.dawidowska@waitematadhb.govt.nz

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process before the closing date of this advert.

We only accept online applications. Please apply via our website.