- 38 hour week, 76 hour per fortnight.
- Package up to $450k.
- Incredible lifestyle and benefits living and working in this part of coastal Victoria.
Opportunity highlights
- Beautiful coastal community in lush, green Victoria.
- Excellent schooling options.
- Talented and supportive clinical director and health service executive.
- Fantastic professional development opportunities.
- Exceptional employment terms and conditions.
This mental health service is headed up by a progressive and dynamic clinical director. It provides innovative and patient-centred care with a commitment to recovery-orientated practices, holistic care with forward thinking and contemporary models which deliver compassionate , high quality servies.
Community services
There are 4 community based hubs in the mental health service. There are mental health teams in the community hubs and they are made up of psychologists, social workers, mental health nurses and OT. Clinicians from HQ visit and work from the regional hubs on a daily basis. The teams also support high prevalence presentations in the primary care sector and support the capacity of GPs. The community based mental health services include an adult mhs continuing care, access mental health team, old age MHS, CAMHS, autism spectrum disorder assessment and coordination, a perinatal program and an early intervention and dual diagnosis team.
Inpatient
All the services bed-based services are located at HQ where there is a 15 bed unit which includes 4 high dependency beds, a 5 bed extended care inpatient unit, a 13 bed PARC .The HQ also houses aged persons mhs, CAMHS, multidisciplinary teams, assocated leadership and amin services.
Job responsibilities include but are not limited to
- In this job you will work closely with the mhs Exectuive Director and the Clinical Director. You will provide clinical leadership and help to further develop the service around evidence based clinical standards and practices whilst increasing management capacity.
- Support the professional governance of all doctors in the service.
- Work closely with the Clinical Director to monitor and manage the budget of the Department.
- Work collaboratively to plan, develop and implement coordinated clinical services.
- Support appropriate teaching programs and to ensure the supervision of the clinical practice and training of medical staff.
- Represent the service at internally and externally whilst fostering links with the broader community, NGOs and other important stakeholders.
- The service requires an experienced psychiatrist who holds FRANZCP who can help supervise and line manage within the service.
Selection criteria
- FRANZCP.
- Broad experience in clinical psychiatry with a demonstrated record of achievement in the development and
implementation of innovative programs within a public mental health service.
- Experience in medical management and leadership.
- Demonstrated experience in teaching and training of clinicians and other health professionals, and in providing community education.
- A commitment to a community based integrated model of mental health treatment is essential.
Qualifications in management will be highly regarded but are not essential.
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