Advanced Trainee

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full Time - Fixed Term

**Salary**:$60 - $80

**Grade**:Undefined

**Occupation**: Medical and Nursing

**Location**: Melbourne

**Reference**: 3339

**_ Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About the Mental Health Division**

Our Mental Health Division has a dynamic and friendly team with excellent academic, education and research programs. With a consultant body committed to registrar development, and with targeted education and mentoring opportunities, we have a reputation for successfully supporting registrars to progress through the RANZCP Fellowship Program and multiple advanced training certificates.

As one of the largest mental health services in Victoria, Austin Health’s Mental Health Division is able to provide senior trainees with a comprehensive training experience, with access to a range of subspecialty programs among the broadest in Victoria.

**About the role**

An exciting opportunity currently exists for enthusiastic Advanced Trainees in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to join the Mental Health Division. This role is suited to Psychiatry Registrars who have commenced, or who are about to commence, the RANZCP Advanced Training Certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Hours per week: 21.5 - 43 hours per week
- Employment status: Fixed term full-time or part-time
- Appointment period: Until expected completion of RANZCP Fellowship (up to 2 years equivalent full-time)
- Commencement date: Positions available from August 2025 and February 2026.

The Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health Service offers broad and subspecialised training experiences - and continues to grow. Advanced trainees can access unique training opportunities in a range of services, including:

- Inpatient programs for children and adolescents
- A statewide residential program for children and families - one of only two in Australia
- Brand new Youth-PARC facility opening in August 2025
- Community programs, including specialist child community teams
- Opportunities in consultation-liaison and emergency mental health
- Specialty assessment teams for eating disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders

**About you**

To be successful in this role you’ll bring with you:

- Be a registered Medical Practitioner with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Be a Stage 3 Registrar in the RANZCP Fellowship Program, who has commenced the Advanced Training Certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, or intends to from the commencement date.
- Be able to work across our campuses in Heidelberg, and participate in our out-of-hours roster
- Be committed to high quality patient care
- Have excellent communication skills, with consumers, carers and colleagues
- Demonstrate capability and interest in learning, teaching and research

**Our benefits**

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
- Mentoring and career development opportunities.

**Work with us**

**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the**position description** for further details.**

**Application closing date: Thursday 26 June 2025**

Applications close Thursday 26 June 2025 at 11.59PM

Posted 06 June 2025