Consultant Psychiatrist for Young adults 18-25

Spinner Medical; Warrnambool; On-site; AUD 270,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent residency support

Visa sponsorship

Professional development opportunities

Excellent schooling options

Job summary

Spinner Medical in Victoria, Warrnambool is seeking a psychiatrist to lead adolescent and young adult mental health services. You will deliver clinical assessments and treatments for 18–25 year olds, participate in MDT activities, and contribute to service development across community hubs.

The role emphasises recovery-oriented care, collaboration with psychologists, social workers, nurses, and OT, and active participation in teaching and supervision.

Qualifications

• FRANZCP or equivalent qualification is required.
• Proven expertise in adult psychiatric care with both medical and psychiatric assessments and treatment.
• Experience with 18–25 age group is highly regarded.
• Strong team skills and ability to work in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Willingness to work across multiple sites and on-call roster.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary clinical assessment and treatment for young adults 18–25.
• Deliver and develop best clinical practice standards within the MDT.
• Participate in education and supervision of junior colleagues and students.
• Contribute to remote and rural service delivery as part of the responsibilities.

Skills

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Clinical leadership

On-call roster management

Education

FRANZCP or equivalent qualification

Job description

• 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 inVictoria.
• Package up to $450k.
• Comfortable workload.
• Excellent schooling options.
• Full permanent residency support - get your and your family'sPR 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 young adults aged 18 - 25 years old.

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 and leader 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.
• Experience in specifically ages 18-25 will be highly regarded.
• 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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