Clinical Director - Mental Health Service for Older Adults - part-time

Clinical Director (part-time 0.25 FTE) Mental Health Service for Older Adults (MHSOA)

• Exciting Leadership opportunity

Mental Health Service for Older Adults (MHSOA) Waitemata District provides specialist mental health services across the district through a range of community and hospital-based services to a population of 100,000+ over the age of 65.

An exciting opportunity for you to join our team in a clinical leadership role across the service has arisen.

As the Clinical Director, you will partner with the Mental Health Service for Older Adults (MHSOA) Operations Manager. You will be involved in developing, implementing and maintaining clinical best practices, service development and excellence in professional conduct. You will work with a wider group of Senior Medical Staff and psychiatry trainees and lead the clinical governance structure for the Mental Health Service for Older Adults.

The service sits under the Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Services (SMHAS) division and has solid clinical and operational ties with the Specialty Medicine and Health of Older People division. 

You will be an experienced psychiatrist, committed to leading the provision of high-quality care, who enjoys working in partnership with other disciplines, who has a strong consumer and family/whānau focus and who enjoys the challenges of providing services to a diverse community.

Teaching and supervising junior doctors and students and clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team are core functions of all our psychiatrists.

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For expressions of interest, please contact: Ben Bradley Senior Recruitment Consultant at ben.bradley@tewhatuora.govt.nz 

Job code: WDHB20808

Closing Date: 19th June 2026