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About the Role

The Older People’s Mental Health Service (OPMHS) provides integrated clinical services to older adults within the St. Vincent’s Mental Health Service catchment area. This role involves acting as a senior clinician within a multidisciplinary team, providing psychiatric assessment and treatment across various settings including inpatient, outpatient, and community outreach. The position also focuses on clinical leadership, service improvement, innovation, and evaluation, with potential to work across other Mental Health and Homeless Health services.

Responsibilities

Act as a senior clinician within a multidisciplinary team.
Provide psychiatric assessment and treatment in inpatient, consultation-liaison, hospital outpatient, community clinic, and outreach settings.
Provide clinical leadership in promoting high standards of patient care.
Drive service improvement, innovation, and evaluation.
Contribute to teaching and supervision of trainees, junior medical officers, medical students, and non-medical colleagues.
Foster a culture of safety learning and improve the quality of services and patient care outcomes.
Contribute to the development, dissemination, and translation of new knowledge and practices in an academic teaching hospital environment.

Requirements

Possess, or be eligible to possess, specialist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
Possess Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) or equivalent.
Possess, or be working towards, the RANZCP Certificate of Advanced Training in Psychiatry of Old Age (or equivalent qualification).
Possess a Medicare provider number.
Demonstrated knowledge, skills, and high standards of clinical practice in Psychiatry of Old Age, including electroconvulsive therapy.
Demonstrated expertise and commitment to person-centred, recovery-oriented, family/carer-inclusive, and trauma-informed principles of care.
Demonstrated ability to lead and work in collaborative interprofessional contexts, including lived-experience professions.
Demonstrated commitment to teaching and supervision.
Demonstrated leadership skills to foster a culture of safety learning.
Demonstrated ability to improve the quality of services and patient care outcomes.
Demonstrated ongoing contribution to the development, dissemination, and translation of new knowledge and practices.
Upload a current CV/Resume and a separate cover letter/document addressing the selection criteria.
Internal applicants must apply via their Workday account.
Must have current immunity status that complies with the Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases - NSW Health Policy Directive (PD2023_022) or subsequent revisions.

Skills

Psychiatry of Old Age
Electroconvulsive therapy
Person-centred care
Recovery-oriented care
Family/carer-inclusive care
Trauma-informed care
Interprofessional collaboration
Clinical leadership
Service improvement
Innovation
Evaluation
Teaching
Supervision

Location

St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney

Work Type

Permanent Part Time
0.8 FTE

Experience Level

Staff Specialist

Education Level

Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) or equivalent
RANZCP Certificate of Advanced Training in Psychiatry of Old Age (or equivalent qualification)

Salary/Compensations

As per the award

Benefits

Generous salary packaging
Fitness Passport for eligible staff
Access to a wide range of clinical and non-clinical education programs
Supported post-graduate opportunities within applicable fields
Career development opportunities across the St. Vincent’s Health Australia Network
Employee Assistance Program
Work/Life balance

About the Company

St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing health services.
Guided by values of compassion, excellence, integrity, and justice.
Promotes a culture of diversity and inclusion.
Empowers people to learn, grow, and innovate.
Committed to employing a workforce that reflects the community.
Encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally diverse individuals, sexuality or gender diverse individuals, and/or those living with disability.
Acknowledges the importance of creating a welcoming, safe, equitable, and inclusive work environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees.
Committed to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes.

Equal Opportunity

St. Vincent's is committed to employing a workforce that reflects the community we care for.
We strongly encourage applications from people that are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally diverse, sexuality or gender diverse and/or living with disability.
At St. Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees.
As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.