Health Practitioner Disciplinary Tribunal (HPDT): psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists

The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal is established under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003. Its purpose is to adjudicate on charges of professional misconduct laid against health practitioners.

On behalf of the Minister of Health, we are currently seeking applications/nominations for the following positions.

• Psychiatrist
• Psychologist
• Psychotherapist

Please note that any applicants for a health practitioner member position must hold a current practising certificate. If you are in doubt, please contact appointments@health.govt.nz to determine your eligibility.

Applicants from across New Zealand are welcome. The Tribunal will meet as and when required. The time commitment for hearings varies. It may be from one to four days depending on the nature of the case. The majority are heard within one to two days.

To nominate someone, or apply yourself, the following are required:

• a declaration form for the relevant position, completed by you/the nominee (attached)
• a covering letter, detailing your/the nominee's experience that is relevant to the HPDT and why the position is of interest to you/them
• a current CV.

Counsellor: EAP Services Timaru

Deliver brief intervention counselling as part of an employee assistance programme to support and effectively assist our clients to cope and thrive in their work and personal life.

A varied role the majority of clinical hours will be 1:1 counselling sessions but will include onsite visits at our customer premises to provide support after a critical incident.

EAP Services is seeking a registered counsellor with a min of 5 years’ counselling experience and a relevant tertiary qualification.

EAP Services is NZ’s leading provider of employee assistance programmes, committed to supporting organisations to enhance the wellbeing and performance of their staff. Established in 1989, we deliver workplace support to 560,000 employees from over 1400 New Zealand owned businesses covering a wide range of private and public sector organisations.

This role, whilst based in Timaru, will be part of a wider team of counselling professionals working from our many EAP offices throughout NZ.

Counsellor/ Psychotherapist/Psychologist wanted for Auckland CBD

Your Focus Ltd is looking for an experienced practitioner to provide counselling/therapy services in the CBD. We have more referrals than we can manage. There is the option to receive referrals in your existing office or to sublet ours for 1-2 days with the opportunity to build up.

Are you:

• ACC registered or want to be and need some support to become registered.
• Do you want support to build a practice?
• Are you experienced and fully qualified and have full registration with a professional body? (We are particularly interested in therapists who are trained in EMDR or are wanting to train in EMDR.)

You will receive:

• Support with client referrals, ACC support, advertising, the use of a stylish central city office within the Heritage Hotel, Hobson Street.
• We have an abundance of referrals and requests for private, ACC and EAP counselling.

ACC Counsellors – we have clients waiting!!!

HEART Counselling is a Hamilton based counselling agency, supporting people through challenges and difficult times. We currently offer counselling to children, youth, adults and couples.

We are looking for qualified, skilled counsellors to join our network. This contract will suit counsellors looking to grow their private practice or supplement their current income. We’d love to hear from you if you meet the following:

• Counselling qualification accepted in New Zealand
• hold current membership with a relevant professional body such as NZAC
• organized & professional
• process oriented with great attention to detail
• a great communicator with a positive, can-do attitude
• proficient in word and excel

If you have the above skills and want to know more, we would love to hear from you. Please confirm whether you have current Provider status with ACC when you contact us for your application pack by email admin@heartcounselling.org.

Contract Counsellors – choose your own hours 

HEART Counselling is a Waikato based counselling agency supporting people, through challenges and difficult times. We currently offer counselling to children, youth, adults, couples as well as facilitating groups for people affected by issues such as family violence and addiction. Our counsellors can choose to work from their own location, or ours, giving clients more choice and making our service more accessible.

We are looking for qualified and skilled counsellors to join our network in the Waikato. This contract suits people looking to grow their private practice or supplement their current income with a few weekly sessions. We offer ongoing admin support, promotional material and peer supervision.

We’d love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Counselling qualification accepted in New Zealand
• minimum three years post-grad experience
• hold current membership with a relevant professional body such as NZAC

It is essential you are:

• organised
• professional
• process oriented with great attention to detail
• a great communicator with a positive, can-do attitude
• proficient in word and excel

If you have the above skills and want to know more, we would love to hear from you. Please email your CV, practicing certificate, photo ID and most recent police check to Stacey, our practice manager: admin@heartcounselling.org. We will respond to all applicants.