Psychiatrist - Early in Life Mental Health

Job Requisition ID: 5823

Legal Entity: Monash Health

Location:
Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168

Employment Type: Part Time

Posting Date: 17 Sept 2025

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Monash Health is Victoria's largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care to south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations, via telehealth, within local communities and in people's homes.

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.

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About ELMHS

ELMHS provides a range of mental health services to pregnant mothers, infants, children, adolescents and their families within the Southern Region.

The organisational and clinical model has been developed to provide mental health care that is flexible and responsive to the individual and developmental needs of the perinatal to adolescents populations and their families. As such, this model will support the provision of integrated mental health care for young people, guided by consistent, service-wide protocols and principles of care.

About the Team

The Monash Children's Child Neuropsychiatry Inpatient Unit provides specialist assessment and care planning for children aged up to 12 years, with neurodevelopmental disorders (such as Autism Spectrum Disorder or Intellectual Disability) and/or who show severe or complex psychiatric, behavioural and developmental symptoms that indicate need for a short term inpatient service. A range of consultation services, brief emergency admissions, and planned assessment admissions are provided.

The unit is part of the network of child and youth mental health services (CYMHS) provided across metropolitan and regional Victoria. Patient care is carefully planned and managed through collaboration with local CYMHS care teams to ensure an integrated and effective service, tailored to the individual needs of each child and family.

The Child Neuropsychiatry Inpatient Unit is a centre for excellence with an active clinical and research program that integrates and enhances knowledge from psychiatry, paediatrics, neurology, endocrinology, and other specialist medical and allied health services.

About the Role

The Early in Life Mental Health Service of Monash Health's Mental Health Program is seeking a dynamic, experienced psychiatrist for 0.6 eft consultant psychiatrist position. This position is to cover the Child Neuropsychiatry Inpatient Unit based at Monash Children's Hosptial. The successful consultant psychiatrist would be working with a multidisciplinary team. The consultant psychiatrist position provides high-level psychiatric services within their approved scope of clinical practice as part of the Monash Health Mental Health Program at Monash Health. This is a senior Medical Position and carries with it the professional responsibilities of clinical leadership, teaching and training as well as administrative requirements.

About you

Applications should include an up to date Curriculum Vitae and the names of three professional referees. Applicants must hold FRANZCP or equivalent, be registrable in Victoria. A Certificate in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Mindful) or equivalent is desirable but not essential.

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.

How to Apply

Position description can be found here

Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online EHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the 'Application Guide'

Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.

Applications close: 1 October 2025