Paediatrician South West Mh Team

Location: North East Region | Whittlesea

Job type: Part time

Organisation: The Royal Children's Hospital

**Salary**: $250,000 - $350,000

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 12779

**About the Role**:
This is a permanent (ongoing) position at 14 hours per fortnight within the Mental Health Department, in a community based mental health team based initially at Travancore and will move to Tarneit.

**You Will be Responsible For**:

- The role provides direct clinical care informed by the latest in evidence base, to a number of consumers with complex mental health problems referred for assessments and interventions to the South West Mental Health community team at Tarneit.
- The role will provide direct paediatric care including diagnostic evaluation, prescription and monitoring of medications, participation in Autism Spectrum Disorder team assessments and documentation of care in the Electronic Medical Record.
- The paediatrician will contribute expert clinical opinion to the development of procedures and policy that influence community service provision and seek to advance evidence-based practice delivered in the community team
- The role will participate in clinical quality improvement activities in the department.

**What You’ll Achieve**:

- Direct clinical care
- Provide effective, coordinated client
- and family-centred Paediatric care
- Be responsible for maintaining the standard of clinical assessments (including developmental assessments), diagnosis, brief interventions, discharge and handover of the consumers.
- Support the consultant psychiatrist in providing clinical oversight of care, within scope of practice, provided by all team clinicians
- Ensure that all direct clinical work and care procedures are accurately and promptly documented
- Provide the quantity of service outputs as agreed with the Team Consultant Psychiatrist and Team Coordinator

Training and education
- Support the training of the psychiatry registrar by including them in assessments and interventions to give them exposure and experience
- Take on the supervision and training of an advanced paediatric trainee posted to the team by arrangement.

Service leadership and development
- Model a high standard of professional and interpersonal skills, attitudes and behaviours
- Collaborate effectively with the Team Coordinator to ensure operational and clinical targets are met, and clinical care is of a consistently high standard
- Work collaboratively with other clinical and service leaders to support high quality inter-disciplinary care
- Participate in bi monthly supervision with the Director Mental Health for tracking work plans for the year, and managing competing demands for clinical, service and training activities
- Advocate for a service culture of evidence-based and outcomes-driven practice, continual learning and improvement

**Your Skills and Experience**:

- Essential
- Registration as medical practitioner and Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- Extensive experience in working in developmental and behavioural paediatrics

Desirable
- Accreditation as an RACP Supervisor
- An interest in teaching and research with publications in refereed journals in the field of developmental and behavioural paediatrics

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**About the Department**:
RCH Mental Health is a Level 5 tertiary Infant, Child and Family Area Mental Health and Wellbeing Service and comprises community and hospital-based services. This includes an Intake and Assessment Team based at Parkville and three multidisciplinary community-based teams located at Travancore, St Albans and Hoppers Crossing. The Community teams are led by a partnership between a Team Coordinator and a Consultant Psychiatrist, with the Team Coordinator responsible for the operational functioning of the team, and the Consultant Psychiatrist accountable for driving high quality clinical care across the Team. RCH Mental Health is currently undergoing an exciting transformation and expansion as we implement the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System. The transformation will allow RCH Mental Health to help more infants and children and their families and implement contemporary models of care that best meet the needs of the families we serve and support them to use their collective strengths for recovery and hope.

**What We Offer**:

- Salary Packaging - Increase your take home pay
- Professional development and special events
- Culture of continuous improvement

**Other Requirements**:

- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
- Valid Working with Children Check
- Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willing to obtain
- Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

**Application Process**

To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability