Title:  Consultant Psychiatrist - Adult Acute

Consultant Psychiatrist - Adult Acute

• Permanent Part Time
• Eastern Health
• Salary Packaging

Eastern Health
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.
Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan – which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.

About the role

This position supports the work of the Clinical Director, Adult Acute, Mental Health Program. The CP will thus be guided in prioritising strategic, clinical, operational and managerial tasks by the Clinical Director. The Consultant Psychiatrist is accountable for the delivery of clinical services to the clients of the service through providing clinical leadership, high quality clinical services, and contributing to service evaluation, research and planning.

• To provide excellent clinical care for his/her patients.
• To provide leadership for junior medical and other clinical staff.
• To support the service’s teaching, research and clinical governance programs

About you 
To be successful in this role you will possess:

• Must be a registered medical practitioner with AHPRA, be in good standing and hold the appropriate specialist registration
• Tertiary qualifications as evidenced by Fellowship of the appropriate professional college eg FRANZCP or equivalent
• Not be subject to any conditions preventing employment at Eastern Health
• Excellent verbal, written and communication skills
• Demonstrate understanding of Recovery Oriented Practice in the field of mental health
• Demonstrate understanding of mental health legislation and statutory requirements
• Demonstrated experience and competence in teaching and education in clinical psychiatry and supervision of clinical practice.
• Have a valid driver’s licence
• Be able to participate in the on-call and recall rosters for afterhours work
• Be available to participate on the ECT roster and hold the appropriate certificate of training and competence in ECT
• Agree to uphold the terms and conditions of employment at Eastern Health

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.  An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.

What we offer

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here!

• Diverse and engaging career opportunities
• Friendly & supportive team
• Flexible working hours
• Salary packaging options
• Career progression in our teaching hospitals

Next Steps
Apply online if you feel we are a good match, you have the skills and qualities to make a difference, and are eligible to work in Australia.

We review all applications when we receive them, and we notify unsuccessful candidates.

If you are shortlisted, we will be in touch to arrange an interview, and you must complete a National Police Check (which we will pay for). We will notify unsuccessful candidates.

Good to know:

• We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
• We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
• As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
• Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
• Advertising may end before the closing date.
• We do not accept recruitment agency application

Please click here for position description 

Contact Person: Dr Andrew Cheong

Contact Number: 9895 4965

Contact Email: 

Need help submitting your application?

Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 | Medical Workforce Unit on (03) 9895 3469. [TA for Non Medical roles, MWU for Medical roles]

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