An exciting opportunity to be the Clinical Director, Northern Beaches Mental Health Service within the NSLHD Mental Health Drug and Alcohol is available
Applications are accepted via eCredential only, to apply click here
Position Classification: Staff Specialist
Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Hours Per Week: Up to 32
Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone. There's a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams' voices. You'll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities' lives.
Purpose of the Position
Northern Beaches Mental Health Service (NBMHS) provides a comprehensive range of community and inpatient mental health services for adult and older people in the Northern Beaches local government area. NBMHS includes community mental health care for adult and older people, assertive outreach service and mental health liaison service for Mona Vale Hospital and Manly Adolescent and Young Adult Hospice.
The Clinical Director NBMHS works under the leadership and in collaboration with the Service Director of NBMHS, to lead, develop and maintain mental health services to the highest possible quality and safety standard within existing financial and other resources.
You will have delegated responsibility for providing leadership of clinical governance of legislative frameworks within the service directly mapped to the broader LHD/NSW Health frameworks, including clinical quality and safety, clinical key performance indicators, the implementation and evaluation of clinical service plans and models of care, best practice clinical care (including psychological, psychosocial and pharmacological interventions), system improvements.
You will be responsible for the recruitment, retention, professional development, ongoing management and leadership of the medical workforce and responsibility for oversight of the Northern Beaches Hospital Mental Health Service to ensure seamless clinical care to the community that they respectively serve.
You will provide clinical management and treatment of patients under your care in a Northern Sydney Local Health District facility or service. This care will be provided within the scope of clinical practice endorsed by the NSLHD Medical and Dental Appointments Advisory Committee.
Selection Criteria
- MBBS or equivalent, currently registered, or eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia. Applicants must have Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) or be eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia as a Specialist Psychiatrist and/or overseas trained substantial specialist pathways.
- Consistently demonstrates behaviours that reinforce the CORE Values of our organisation, Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment. Demonstrates these behaviours with all stakeholders; colleagues, direct reports, as well as our patients and consumers, and those that care for them.
- Demonstrated experience in working as a senior clinician in acute psychiatry, general hospital psychiatry and community-based and inpatient settings, including experience in working with the relevant NSW Mental Health Act (2007) or equivalent legislation in other jurisdictions and proven ability to work as a leader and manager of a multidisciplinary team across hospital and community settings; proven high performance as an experienced clinician, with experience in management and leadership.
- Understanding of and commitment to the National, State and Local Health District strategic direction, including commitment to a performance-based organisation.
- Demonstrated experience in engaging, liaising, developing sustainable and beneficial working relationships with GPs, consumers and carers, community organisations with demonstrated understanding of the recovery and care coordination models of care.
- Proven experience in management and leadership, including proven ability to work as a leader of a multidisciplinary clinical team and experience in teaching psychiatry to students, trainees and others and supervising trainees in psychiatry and ability to communicate vision and strategy effectively; inspire and motivate others toward the achievement of goals and create a value-based organisational culture.
- Demonstrated interest in improvement of clinical governance of mental health services, including quality improvement methodologies, and a commitment to fostering this interest in medical staff and other clinicians.
- Current NSW Driver's License and the ability to drive.
Need more information?
1) The requirements of the position can be viewed via the Position Description
2) For assistance with your application please refer to the eCredential guide
3) NSLHD uses the NSW Health Statewide Model Scopes of Clinical Practice. To view the Explanatory Document for this Specialty click here
For role related queries or questions contact Jeanine Smith on 0437 075 173 or email [email protected] OR contact Pradeep Jarabandahalli on 0457 513 556 or email [email protected]
This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.
Applications Close: 16 July 2026
Please Note: NSW Health does not require or accept the ‘Fit2Work badge’ offered as an option in eCredential.
