• Community Alcohol and Drug Services, Auckland
• Permanent, part-time or full-time role
• Psychiatrist or a Vocationally Registered Doctor eligible for FAChAM* (FT or PT)

Are you a Psychiatrist or eligible registered Medical Practitioner looking for a new challenge or a change? Are you keen to be part of a flexible, dynamic, client-centred specialist team providing high quality care to people seeking addiction services?

About CADS

Come and work at Community Alcohol and Drug Service (CADS), New Zealand’s largest alcohol and drug service. CADS covers the greater Auckland area and provides a range of addiction services to many thousands of people each year, with over 240 staff from a range of professional backgrounds, including medical, psychology, nursing, allied health including consumer and peer support.

CADS operates from six main sites across Auckland (Takapuna, Manukau, Henderson, Kingsland, CBD and Pt Chevalier). We provide a wide range of services, from intake, assessment, and counselling, both individually and in groups. Medically assisted treatments include opioid replacement treatment, inpatient and outpatient managed withdrawal, medical stabilisation, and support of GPs and other health professionals.

We are strength-based, recovery-focused, adopt a harm reduction approach, and value easy access for Aucklander’s and their families. Specialist services exist for those with co-existing disorders, pregnant women and mothers (our Pregnancy and Parental Service), young people (our Altered High Youth Service), people who have had contact with the criminal justice system or require compulsory treatment (SACAT Act 2017), or have need for application of the Misuse of Drugs Act (e.g. restriction notices, authorisations, etc). We operate in close partnership with a wide range of stakeholders, including providers for Māori and Pacific peoples, other addiction and mental health service providers, NGOs, and primary care.

About the role

We are seeking an addiction specialist (Certificate Addiction Psychiatry or FAChAM), or a registered medical practitioner willing and eligible to train* in addiction to join our team. We will consider full-time or part-time hours.

You will be based largely with our Auckland Opioid Treatment Service (AOTS) at Pitman House in Point Chevalier (or as agreed, at one or more of the other CADS units). Depending on your training needs, professional background, and areas of interest, there will be various opportunities to work across the wide range of CADS services described above.

*Psychiatrists are eligible for Advanced Training in Addiction (RANZCP). RACP Basic Trainees and Fellows, along with Fellows from other Medical Colleges (GP, Emergency Medicine, Anaesthetics, Intensive Care etc) are eligible for FAChAM (Fellowship in Advanced Training in Addiction Medicine). For more details, click here.

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How to apply

To apply please click ‘apply now’. All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal by Sunday, 26 April 2026. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Dr Emma Schwarcz, CADS Service Clinical Director 021 708938 or emma.schwarcz@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.