Staff Specialist – Acute Care Service (Community Mental Health)
St Vincent's Health Australia · AU
13 days agoImpress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Tailor your resume to this Staff Specialist – Acute Care Service (Community Mental Health) role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against St Vincent's Health Australia's job description. Free.
Tailor your resume to this Staff Specialist – Acute Care Service (Community Mental Health) role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against St Vincent's Health Australia's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Staff Specialist – Acute Care Service (Community Mental Health) posting at St Vincent's Health Australia — free, in seconds.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Staff Specialist – Acute Care Service (Community Mental Health) posting at St Vincent's Health Australia — free, in seconds.
About the Role
The Acute Care Service (Community Mental Health) provides short-term community-based clinical services to adult patients with a broad range of mental illnesses. This position involves working within a multidisciplinary team to provide psychiatric assessment, treatment, care planning, and clinical oversight using harm-minimisation and recovery-based models. The role also includes acting as a senior clinician and providing leadership within the team. There is potential to work in other positions within the Mental Health and Homeless Health service upon mutual agreement.
Responsibilities
- Provide psychiatric assessment, treatment, care planning and clinical oversight of allocated patients.
- Utilize harm-minimisation and recovery-based models of care.
- Act as a senior clinician providing leadership in a multidisciplinary team.
- Contribute to teaching and supervision of specialist trainees, junior medical officers, medical students, and non-medical colleagues.
- Foster innovation 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).
- Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) or equivalent as provided for in the Staff Specialist’s State Award.
- Possess, or be working towards possessing, the RANZCP Certificate of Advanced Training in Psychiatry (or equivalent qualification).
- Possess a Medicare provider number.
- Demonstrated knowledge, skills, and high standards of clinical practice in Adult Psychiatry commensurate with experience.
- Demonstrated ability to provide high-quality compassionate medical care.
- Demonstrated experience in working congenially and collaboratively as both a leader and member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrated experience as a provider of services that engender high levels of patient satisfaction and experience.
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching and supervision.
- Demonstrated leadership skills that support and foster innovation.
- Proven 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.
- Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries and St Vincent’s Health Australia.
- 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
- Adult Psychiatry
- Clinical practice
- Compassionate medical care
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration
- Leadership
- Teaching
- Supervision
- Innovation
- Service quality improvement
- Knowledge translation
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Permanent
- Part Time
Experience Level
- Staff Specialist
- Senior clinician
Education Level
- Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) or equivalent
- RANZCP Certificate of Advanced Training in Psychiatry (or equivalent qualification)
Salary/Compensations
- As per the award
Benefits
- Generous salary packaging
- Fitness Passport for eligible staff
- Opportunity to access a wide of 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 to our community.
- Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, integrity and justice, we promote a culture of diversity and inclusion and empower our people to learn, grow and innovate.
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.