Consultant Psychiatrist - Older Adults

Aotearoa, New Zealand. 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; and 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) works 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.

• Provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team.
• Participate in the clinical governance model, contributing to service development, planning and quality improvement initiatives.
• Teach and supervise psychiatry trainees, house officers, and medical students.

• Vocationally registered with the Medical Council of NewZealand with a current Annual Practising Certificate or be eligible for application.
• Full and clean driving licence.
• Willingness and commitment to improving services and increasing positive outcomes, particularly for Māori.

• Ongoing internal and external continued professional development opportunities.
• Generous relocation assistance.

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

For further information or an informal chat, please contact Agnes Dawidowska, Acting Clinical Director, at [email protected].

For a copy of the position description, please click here.

Closing date: 21st June 2026
Job code: WDHB13292A