Registrar - Psychiatry - 150 per hour

Medrecruit; Hornsby; On-site; AUD 138,000 - 248,000; Part time

Job summary

Medrecruit seeks a locum medical practitioner for a 25-bed specialist mental health inpatient unit in Sydney. The assignment runs from 30 November 2026 to 3 January 2027, with shift times 0830–1700 and on-call duties.

You must hold current AHPRA registration to practice, and flexibly cover on-call and overtime as needed. The unit provides crisis intervention, assessments, treatment, consultations, early psychoses intervention, rehabilitation, and accommodation services.

Qualifications

• Must have current AHPRA registration to practice as a medical practitioner.
• Locum cover with on-call duties and willingness to work overtime.
• Shift times are 0830–1700 in a 25-bed specialist mental health inpatient unit.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical care in a specialist mental health inpatient setting.
• Participate in on-call rotas and overtime as required.
• Engage in crisis intervention, assessments, treatment, and consultations.

Skills

On-call

Overtime willingness

Education

AHPRA registration

Job description

Locum cover is required from 30 November 2026 - 3 January 2027.

• Should participate in on-call, overtime.

Please note that all rates are inclusive of superannuation, taxes, and casual loading, where applicable.

Must have current AHPRA registration as a medical practitioner.

This 25-bed hospital is a specialist mental health inpatient unit located in Sydney. The unit provides specialist, intensive, multidisciplinary care to people with high levels of clinical complexity and risk who cannot be safely and effectively managed in a standard acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit.

Position Details:

• Shift times: 0830 - 1700
• Should participate in on-call, overtime.

There are multiple services including:

• Crisis intervention service
• Assessments
• Treatment
• Consultation services
• Early Psychoses Intervention
• Mental Health Rehabilitation
• Accommodation

Location Information

The Sydney CBD is 25km away and offers world-class theatres, great shopping, museums and art galleries and restaurants featuring cuisines from around the world. With so many beaches close to Sydney’s city centre, you are able to enjoy the convenience of living in a city with a great beach lifestyle, enjoying surfing sunbathing and going for leisurely strolls along the coast line.