Employment Type: Temporary Part Time
Position Classification: Staff Specialist
Hours Per Week: 16
Requisition ID: REQ681719
This position may be extended at the discretion of SESLHD without further advertisement or interview.
Make a Meaningful Impact – Your Own Way
We seek an innovative and person-oriented Staff Specialist Psychiatrist to join the Adult Community Team at the Prince of Wales Hospital (POWH), Randwick, as part of the ESMHS.
This is an exciting opportunity to provide specialist psychiatric care, oversight and leadership within a dedicated, multidisciplinary team to deliver care to people living with serious mental health challenges.
About the Role
You will be a senior medical member of the Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS), a multidisciplinary team based service that includes specialist mental health nurses (including a GP liaison CNC), psychologists, allied health clinicians, and peer support workers. You will be working in a service alongside other senior medical officers, and psychiatry trainees. The goals of the ACMHS is to deliver consumer-focused, contemporary and meaningful care that meets the needs of consumers across several phases of care. Our ability to provide care coordination to consumers with
varied needs is supported by the many specialist facets of our service.
Our team based model is founded on the principles of collaborative and shared decision making between the senior medical member, clinical manager and team clinicians. Our teams are headed by a clinical manager, who works closely with the psychiatrist and clinicians to co-ordinates the multidisciplinary team activities. The ESMHS has 5 teams across two sites, and your position will be to provide leadership and clinical care in one of these teams. You are encouraged to work with your clinical manager and team to develop your own ways of working.
Our Adult Community teams are also supported by close linkages with other teams and NGOs. Consumers can engage with secondary support teams such as the Keeping Body in Mind (KBIM) teams, complex physical health clinicians, rehabilitation clinicians, and Pathways to Community Living (PCLI) initiatives.
Your clinical duties will encompass:
- Providing leadership, expert psychiatric evaluation, care and treatment planning in the Adult Community Mental Health Service.
- There is also opportunity to contribute to our ECT service and develop skills in this area.
- Actively participating in multidisciplinary team discussions in clinical review meetings.
- Liaising with inpatient and emergency psychiatry teams to ensure continuity of care and to facilitate transitions between areas of the service over your consumers journey.
- Providing oversight around use of the Mental Health Act in the community setting.
Your Contributions may include:
- Leading service improvement projects focused on optimising care in the community setting and during transitions of care between different settings.
- Evaluating clinical interventions to improve patient outcomes, reduce restrictive practices, increase connection with GP care, and support safer transitions of care.
- Contributing to the academic profile of the service through scholarly activity and collaboration with local research institutes and universities.
What We Offer
- A supportive, innovative, and personally enriching working environment.
- An opportunity to work within a service with sub-specialty teams as the Adult Community Mental Health team is co-located with the broader ESMHS, providing opportunity to build relationships with colleagues across varied subspecialties.
- Opportunities to impact system improvements in Adult Community Mental Health.
- Opportunities to work with peers in a collegiate setting, with access to peer review groups, complex case review groups, grand rounds and wellbeing initiatives.
- Close partnerships with the University of New South Wales, local medical research institutes, and opportunities to teach through informal and formal pathways.
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional people, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
The specialist will provide expert medical assessment and management of patients within the department/service.
The primary location of this position may be varied as agreed with the Director of Medical Services and as approved by MDAAC to other facilities in SESLHD.
Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment and have been created by employees for employees and help define how we work and to inspire positive interactions in the workplace.
Learn more about us here: South Eastern Sydney Local Health District.
Information for applicants:
- Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
- This is a Category A position. All Category A applicants must read and understand NSW Health Policy PD2026_004. Successful applicants to the role must provide vaccination history and pathology as part of the application documentation and be certified as compliant before employment can commence.
- SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. We do have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can also provide support ([email protected]) and for additional information please
