Sydney - Child And Adolescent Psychiatrist - Inpatient

• Western Sydney Metropolitan District.
• NSW's newest adolescent mental health unit - part of major upgrade.
• 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

There are 2 exciting jobs in a brand new adolescent 10 bed MHU. The unit is the newest adolescent mental health unit in Sydney and NSW. The state of the art facility is close to building completion - part of the NSW Government’s Statewide Mental Health Infrastructure Program.  

The unit has been co-designed from the ground up by young people, carers, and health professionals. It will deliver vital mental health care to 12–17-year-olds, grounded in a strong therapeutic model and supported by a skilled mdt, including lived experience and Aboriginal staff. A key focus will be seamless integration between community services and the inpatient setting, in close partnership with stakeholders.

The Psychiatrists in this unit will provide medical leadership within multi-disciplinary teams. You will guide mental health assessment and treatment for young people, support and empower families and care networks, contribute to key clinical decisions, supervise registrars, and assist in medical education - pre and post grad.. These positions offer the chance to help shape innovative models of care and their support systems.
 

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.
• Expertise in providing high quality mental health services in child and adolescent inpatient 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.
• First class verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to teaching and supervising medical and non-medical staff and students.
• Commitment to professional development. 
• 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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