At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide mental health services in community and inpatient settings at Cairns Hospital.
- Company: Cairns Hospital, part of Australia’s first large-scale regional Digital Hospital.
- Benefits: Earn up to AUD$530,000 plus on-call, with great work-life balance.
- Other info: Experience the beauty of the Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest while working.
- Why this job: Join a vibrant team in a stunning tropical location with excellent career growth.
- Qualifications: Must be a registered specialist with FRANZCP or equivalent qualifications.
Consultant Psychiatrist positions available for Adult Psychiatrists in community and inpatient services at Cairns Hospital, Queensland. Great package – up to AUD$530,000 plus oncall - dependent upon experience.
Australia’s first large-scale regional Digital Hospital connects patients, clinicians and health services through fully integrated digital healthcare following a $470 million redevelopment. Stunning tropical location, visit Daintree Rainforest or the Great Barrier Reef. Excellent choice of schools and tertiary education. Large, varied and affordable housing.
The Role
Seeking Psychiatrists for a variety of community and inpatient positions in General Adult, Rural & Remote, Addictions or Perinatal at Cairns Hospital and Health Service.
- Considerable experience in the direct delivery of inpatient and outpatient mental health clinical services.
- Proven ability to manage patients with complex mental health treatment needs and/or in situations of high clinical risk.
- Proven ability to lead, and function within, a multidisciplinary mental health clinical team and work collaboratively with consultant psychiatrist colleagues to facilitate smooth clinical and operational service functioning.
- Ability to establish and maintain collaborative partnerships with non‑mental health medical practitioners, other government service providers (e.g. Department of Child Safety, Department of Disability Services) and non‑government service providers (e.g. General Practitioners, disability support organisations).
- Experience in provision of clinical teaching to junior medical staff, medical students and other mental health clinicians.
Cairns and Hinterland Mental Health Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs Service (MHATODS) provides a range of community and inpatient services, staffed by multidisciplinary teams with a broad mix of skills, knowledge and professional backgrounds. The services currently include:
- 38 bed Acute Adult Mental Health Unit
- 10 bed Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit
- 12 bed (sub‑acute) Adult Step Up Step Down Unit
- 20 bed Community Care Unit
- Acute Care Team including the 1300 MH CALL Intake Service and Emergency Department MH Team
- Adult Mental Health Community Care Teams
- Child and Youth Mental Health Services
- EVOLVE Therapeutic Services
- Older Persons Psychiatry Service
- Consultation Liaison Services
- Mobile Intensive Rehabilitation Team
- Rural & Remote Mental Health Services
- Forensic Mental Health Service
- Perinatal services
- Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs Services
Key positions in the CHHHS MHATODS provide support and outreach to the Torres and Cape HHS (TCHHS). The Remote medical team report to CHHHS MHATODS and work collaboratively with TCHHS.
Requirements
Applicants should be registered (or eligible for registration) as a specialist with the Medical Board of Australia and be a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) or equivalent as an overseas trained specialist who has completed their training in either the UK, Ireland, Canada, USA (ABPN certified) or New Zealand.
The Medical Board of Australia implemented a new expedited pathway to specialist registration in December 2024, eliminating the need for a specialist assessment with a specialist medical college for those with an accepted qualification in Psychiatry. The only accepted qualifications are MRCPsych and a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) after 2007. The standard Specialist Pathway is still available to those who aren’t eligible for the Expedited specialist pathway.
The Area
Cairns is a vibrant, growing tropical city of 160,000 ideally located in far North Queensland. The World Heritage Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest are easily accessible, making this one of Australia's most popular tourist destinations. Cairns offers high quality educational facilities from primary right through to tertiary education at the James Cook University. Culture and art flourish in this idyllic tropical climate and outdoor activities abound in these beautiful surroundings. Quality and affordable rental properties are widely available.
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