Psychologist

New Zealand Government
📍 kerikeri, northland, New-Zealand 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted July 08, 2026

Job Description

Role Summary

One permanent, full‑time role based in either Kaitaia, Kerikeri, or Whangārei, Te Tai Tokerau. As a Psychologist, you will play a critical role in the region's Learning Support team by doing the following:

Responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively with a team around the child, including educators, parents, caregivers and whānau, to enhance understanding about the child and their behaviours.
  • Collaboratively develop, implement, and monitor an effective personalised learning plan.
  • Help the adults around the child to make changes to the learning environment so that their behaviour can be more effectively managed, and the situation can be stabilised/made safer.
  • Support the child to develop more pro‑social ways of responding, improve participation, wellbeing and learning outcomes.
  • Facilitate access to wider services and support, in response to individual needs (e.g., speech and language therapy and local agencie...

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Job Details

  • Location kerikeri, northland
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category Physicians & Doctors
  • Posted Date July 08, 2026
  • Application Deadline August 17, 2026