• Specialist Maternal Mental Health Service, Wellington
• Fixed-term, part-time role until December 2026 (32 hours per week) or permanent, part-time role (20 hours per week)
• Salary band: 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

The Specialist Maternal Mental Health Service based in Wellington has a fixed-term vacancy for a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our team working in perinatal mental health. This regional team works across the Wellington region and offers support to pregnant and postnatal clients experiencing significant mental health challenges.

Become an integral part of our dedicated multidisciplinary team. In this pivotal role, you’ll help shape and deliver high-quality, evidence-based care to our patients.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• conducting comprehensive psychiatric and risk assessments
• providing clinical leadership in medical care and physical health management
• working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure holistic care
• supporting the development of junior staff and students through teaching and mentorship
• coordinating effective discharge planning in partnership with community services.

About the Team/Service/Location

The Specialist Maternal Mental Health team provides services for clients who develop moderate to severe mental health issues during pregnancy and/or in the postnatal period up to 12 months after delivery at the point of referral.

The team works alongside other health care providers and offers consultation liaison to health professionals involved in the care of this client group. It also has a regional coordination role with the lower North Island regional perinatal mental health network.

The team is passionate about this client group and their work and offers a relational therapeutic model with great outcomes for clients and their pēpi and whānau.

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 three sub-regions – greater Wellington, Hutt Valley, and Wairarapa.

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

You will:

• be vocationally registered in Psychiatry with the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ)
• hold FRANZCP or an equivalent qualification and be able to register for vocational registration with the MCNZ
• work in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team
• have relevant experience and training.

Working for Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness’. We’re dedicated to ensuring excellent health care for the people of Aotearoa New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora 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 | Te Whatu Ora is committed to being a good employer and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

How to apply

To apply please click ‘apply now’. All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Sandra Tam sandra.tam@ccdhb.org.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.