Job Description
Psychiatrist - Child and Youth Mental Health Service: This is a 700 bed teaching hospital located in a metropolitan, coastal location of Queensland serving a population of 500,000 people.
The mental health service consists of inpatient, outpatient, and community teams. There are 124 inpatient beds in total: a 44 bed psychiatric unit with an ICU sub-unit, a 10 bed acute young adult unit, an 8 bed child and youth unit, a 16 bed aged care unit, a 59 bed extended care, rehabilitation and psycho geriatric unit.
* Services include adult and child consultation/liaison services, an emergency psychiatric service, 2 adult and 2 child and adolescent community clinics, and a mobile intensive therapy team.
This large city is the fastest growing in Australia and is a thriving, popular international resort. It is well known for its year round warm and sunny weather, its beaches, its lively and diverse nightlife and booming tourist industry.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide both inpatient and community-based services and have extensive teaching and research responsibilities.
* Assess patients' ability to demonstrate key attributes including making comprehensive psychiatric assessments, providing treatment for patients with serious mental illness and mental health problems.
* Provide medical leadership in a multidisciplinary team and teach, evaluate, and conduct research.
* Demonstrate knowledge of National and State Mental Health policies and skills to assist in the clinical administration of services, including needs determination and policy implementation.
Qualifications
Registration as a medical practitioner and specialist psychiatrist (FRANZCP) with the Medical Board of Australia.
Benefits
This mental health service is very supportive of training requirements of overseas-trained doctors.
Location
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.