Clinical Psychologist For Ngā Tai Oranga

Contract: Full Time but willing to consider Part-Time

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.

About the Role

We at Ngā Tai Oranga, The Healing Tides are a small multidisciplinary team based in Newtown, Wellington. The clinical psychologist role is diverse as it involves providing therapies, supervision and consultations, and teaching mental health clinicians about tāngata whaiora with severe distress intolerance, relationship and emotional dysregulation that impacts on their life (across the lifespan) and their significant others and whānau. The people we work with are often conceptualised as having complex PTSD and/or borderline personality disorder.

We provide consultation, supervision and advice to mental health service teams. We offer teaching on emotion regulation skills, formulation, and understanding risk. We emphasize person‑cent...