Sydney - Child And Adolescent Psychiatrist - Community

• Western Sydney Metropolitan District.
• Major CAMHS service, community focus.
• Up to $434k remuneration, including $39k CPD allowance per annum.

There has been a recent, long overdue salary increase for Psychiatrists working in Sydney and NSW. 

A package of up to $434k is available for child and adolescent psychiatrists with 5 or more years of consultant experience. This figure includes a $39k CPD allowance, superannuation, private practice allowance. 

Role

This role offers exceptional professional development opportunities for a child and adolescent psychiatrist in an expanding Child Youth and Family division within a major mental health service in the Western suburbs of Sydney. 

This job is within a large and well-established interdisciplinary team which provides community mental health care to young people aged up to 17 years old. This team provides excellent community mental health care for young people with moderate to severe mental health issues, underpinned by evidence informed and therapeutic approaches.

Clinical Leadership in Complex and Diverse Care Settings

You'll be responsible for leading the delivery of high-quality mental health care to young people and their families. This includes providing expert psychiatric assessments and evidence-based interventions for children and adolescents experiencing both acute crises and complex, non-acute mental health issues. This will mean collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to design and implement comprehensive care plans across a range of community, hospital, and outreach settings. You will ensure care transitions and referral pathways are well-managed to support patient safety, continuity of care, and service responsiveness to clinical demand.

Collaborative Practice Across Disciplines

The role demands an ability to work collegially across mental health, medical, and social service disciplines. The psychiatrist must demonstrate excellence in diagnostic acumen and therapeutic planning, share psychiatric expertise with non-mental health professionals to enhance holistic care delivery, and promote integrated, family-centred care approaches within a multidisciplinary model.

Leadership in a Dynamic Service Environment

As a senior clinician, you'll contribute to fostering a positive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture in a service undergoing continual development. This includes embracing change and helping the service adapt to increasing community mental health needs across a large geographic area, as well as supporting junior clinicians, trainees, and allied health staff (primary care) through supervision and mentoring.

Championing Service Excellence and Innovation

This role also includes a strategic leadership component, where you'll be expected to advocate for clinical excellence and innovation in child and adolescent mental health services. They will actively contribute to the reputation of the service as an employer of choice and lead quality improvement initiatives while supporting the implementation of evidence-based practice.

In broad terms the job scope includes:

• Clinical.
• Leadership.
• Clinical governance, quality improvement and patient safety.
• Education and training. 
• Performance mangement. 

The community

Sydney has a rich choice of independent schooling, with a large number of faith based or secular institutions located throughout the suburbs. Long term, you'll  have the chance to access Sydney's lucrative private practice settings.

The Western Suburbs of Sydney are the most culturally diverse in Australia. Amenities are first class - waterways, parklands, national parks, the olympic facilities, major shopping centres, professional football stadiums, cricket ovals, league and union pitches, universities, private schools and major hospitals. As the city has grown wealth has shifted from the eastern to the western suburbs and the major corporations and employers have followed this shift by relocating corporate HQs out to the western suburbs. 

Selection criteria

• FRANZCP or UK trained to satisfy RANZCP accelerated pathway and ESP pathway.
• A commitment to their professional development and reflective practice. 
• Expertise in providing high quality mental health services in child and adolescent community settings. 
• Demonstrated commitment to person-centered, recovery oriented, family inclusive, trauma informed and need adapted principles of care. 
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in interprofessional teams, including those with lived-experience members. Strong grounding in all key domains of psychiatry—biological, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a clear, inclusive, and respectful style. 
• Demonstrated commitment to teaching and supervising medical and non-medical staff and students, with a strong focus on interprofessional education.
• Professional values and attitudes aligned with senior psychiatric care, supported by high ethical standards.
• Experience in or readiness to lead quality improvement and clinical governance initiatives, with a strong public sector care ethos.
• Understanding of and support for research activities across basic, clinical, and applied areas, with the ability to apply evidence and guidelines in clinical and service improvement.

For more information please contact Alasdair Spinner +44 7414531583

 alasdair@spinnermedical.com 

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