Youth – Consultant Psychiatrist

2 weeks ago


Geelong, Australia Barwon Health Full time

Position Summary

Barwon Doctors

Consultant Psychiatrist

Youth Continuing Care Service

Specialised role working with Youth aged 12 – 25 years Develop and shape the service with your expert experience and ideas Opportunity for teaching and research

Area Profile

Sitting within one of Victoria’s six regional health centres, Barwon Health serves the community of Greater Geelong and beyond. Victoria’s second largest city after Melbourne We serve over 500,000 people through the efforts of over 8,000 staff and more than 1200 volunteers.

Enjoy the range of lifestyle choices Geelong has to offer including inner city, coastal, suburban and rural homes at affordable prices and high standard of schooling options throughout the area. You will appreciate the beautiful parks, rivers, walks and wineries.

To find out more about the Geelong region, visit our Moving to the Region page on the Barwon Health website. 

About Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Services (MHDAS )

MHDAS provides integrated and recovery oriented mental health, drugs and alcohol assessment, treatment and community support to people of all ages within the Barwon region experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, mental health and drug & alcohol issues, and their families.

Our service is internationally recognised for its innovative clinical programs and integrated models of practice that are client centred, accessible and family inclusive. We are fortunate to enjoy terrific internal relationships and have developed excellent partnerships with the local community that provide for seamless integrated care for our clients.

MHDAS is entering a new phase of co-design of our service system with people who access our services and our wider community. This will build on our nationally recognized unique cultural approach to the challenges of recovery oriented service delivery to redesign our service system.

About the role

Working with youth aged 12 – 25 years, this role offers opportunity to develop and shape the service in a way that you think it will present the best outcomes for our clients and their families. Our strong affiliation with Deakin University will provide a chance to be involved in teaching and/or research if you desire and our unique location of being situated in the heart of the Geelong CBD and also having facilities in regional neighbouring towns offers up the alternative to work within a rural mental health program. 

Key requirements of the role are:

Provide leadership in the provision of high quality psychiatric services to consumers. Act as a delegate of the authorised Psychiatrist as defined in the Mental Health Act 2023 and contribute to the Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement Program of the service. Applicants must hold the FRANZCP, be accredited as a supervisor by the RANZCP, and be registered with general or specialist medical registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.

What we offer

Professional development Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast Attractive salary packaging benefits Living Expenses capped at $9,010 and includes repayments on mortgages, credit cards, personal loans and rental payments Meal Entertainment & Accommodation capped at $2,650 and includes food and drink consumed in a social or entertainment settings and some accommodation expenditure

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