Consultant Psychiatrist – General Adult in Warrnambool

• 38 hour week, 76 hour per fortnight.
• Package up to $450k - new wage agreement for Victoria coming online.
• Full working visa and Permanent Residency support.
• The offer
• Beautiful coastal community in lush, green Victoria.
• Package up to $450k.
• Comfortable workload.
• Excellent schooling options.
• Full permanent residency support - get your and your family's PR within 12 months.
• Talented and supportive clinical director and health service executive.
• Fantastic professional development opportunities.
• Exceptional employment terms and conditions.
• Mental health service

This mental health service is headed up by a progressive and dynamic clinical director.

It provides innovative and patient-centred care with a commitment to recovery-orientated practices, holistic care with forward thinking and contemporary models which deliver compassionate , high quality servies.

There are 4 community based hubs in this mental health service.

The service HQ houses a aged person mental health service, child and adolescent and primary mental health service for the catchment.

All the bed-based services are located here at HQ where there is a 15 bed unit which includes 4 high dependency beds, a 5 bed extended care inpatient unit, a 13 bed PARC .

The mental health community hubs are made up of psychologists, social workers, mental health nurses and OT.

Clinicians from HQ visit and work from the regional hubs on a daily basis.

The teams also support high prevalence presentations in the primary care sector and support the capacity of GPs.

The community based mental health services include an adult mhs continuing care, access mental health team, old age MHS, CAMHS, autism spectrum disorder assessment and coordination, a perinatal program and an early intervention and dual diagnosis team.

The job

You will play an important role in the provision of mental health clinical services across general adult psychiatry including acute inpatient psychiatric treatment unit, the PARC and community based mental health services.

Participation in initiatives aimed at early intervention, aboriginal health as well as remote and rural service delivery will form part of your primary responsibilities.

As a member of the mdt you will offer primary clinical assessment and treatment, provide secondary consultation, guidance and advice to colleagues and other professionals, deliver and develop best clinical practice standards, participate in ECT and oncall roster, participate in the education of more junior colleagues (under and post grad) and other interested stakeholders.

• Selection criteria
• FRANZCP or equivalent qualification.
• Applicants trained in the UK (CCT)will be highly regarded to satisfy accelerated pathways.
• Proven expertise in adult psychiatric care, adept in both medical and psychiatric assessments and treatment.
• Well developed team skills with evidenced ability to work well within multi-disciplinary settings.
• Ability to manage clinical responsibilities in diverse service settings.
• Strong commitment to teaching and providing supervision within the service.
• Flexibility to work across multiple sites.
• Willingess to work on oncall roster.

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We acknowledge them as the first inhabitants of Australia and the traditional custodians of the lands.

We also pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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