Staff Specialist – Acute Care Service (Community Mental Health)

About the role

The Acute Care Service (Community Mental Health) provides short-term community-based clinical services to adults with a broad range of mental illnesses and disorders. This Staff Specialist position works within a multidisciplinary team to provide psychiatric assessment, treatment, care planning and clinical oversight of allocated patients, using harm-minimisation and recovery-based models of care. It also acts as a senior clinician providing leadership in the team. The role is permanent part-time at 0.4 FTE, paid according to the award.

Key responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric assessment, treatment, care planning and clinical oversight of allocated patients
• Use harm-minimisation and recovery-based models of care
• Act as a senior clinician and lead a multidisciplinary team
• Contribute to teaching and supervision of specialist trainees, junior medical officers and medical students
• Support innovation and improve the quality of services and patient care outcomes
• Disseminate and translate new knowledge and practices in an academic teaching hospital setting

Required profile

• Specialist registration with AHPRA, or eligibility to obtain it; Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) or equivalent under the Staff Specialist award, and progress toward the RANZCP Certificate of Advanced Training in Psychiatry (or equivalent)
• Medicare provider number
• Demonstrated knowledge and high standards of clinical practice in adult psychiatry matching the position's requirements
• Proven collaborative leadership in a multidisciplinary team and strong patient satisfaction
• Commitment to teaching and supervision, and to improving service quality
• Current immunity status complying with the NSW Health occupational screening and vaccination policy

What we offer

• Salary packaging and Fitness Passport for eligible staff
• Clinical and non-clinical education programs and supported postgraduate opportunities
• Career development across the St Vincent's Health Australia network
• Employee Assistance Program and work/life balance

Applicants must upload a current CV and a cover letter addressing the selection criteria. Internal applicants apply through their Workday account.