Job Info
Location: WARATAH, NSW
Salary:
Job Type: Temporary position | Full time position
Job Description
This is a locum doctor role for a Psychiatry Registrar at Hunter Current England Mental Health Service in NSW. ### Role Info
Travel Capp $800, accommodation booked by facility. The locum registrar in the Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre (PECC) is responsible for assessing patients presenting with acute mental issues and generating a management plan. This involves either discharge with follow up arranged or admitting the patient to hospital.
A consultant is available for advice by telephone 24 hours a day and usually in person in business hours. There ae also four short stay “PECC beds” to manage as part of this role. PECC is a busy unit and is the “front door” to the 100 bed Mater Mental Health Centre in Newcastle.
PECC takes patients who self-present, come with community mental health staff, are referred from the adjacent Calvary Mater Hospital Emergency Department (a hospital which has a tertiary toxicology service) or are brought in by emergency services. Key relations are with the PECC Clinical Director, PECC nursing staff, the Mater Mental Health Centre Nurse Manager, fellow medical staff and (after 5pm) with the on call consultant. PECC has a forward rotating roster.
There are four shifts that will be rostered between the three registrars. PECC Day: 08.00-16.30 PECC swing 1: 10.00-18.30
PECC Swing 2: 12.30-21.00 PECC Evening: 14.30-23.00 After 5pm the doctor/s in PECC are also responsible for any medical or psychiatric emergencies in the Mental Health Centre (which includes an 8 bed Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit – PICU).
This is not a large component of the role but will be a part of the locum registrar’s role, particularly if they are the only doctor in the Mental Health Centre after hours. Medical support (a rapid response) is available from the adjacent general hospital (Calvary Mater Hospital). ### Job Description
ROTATING ROSTER Monday, 13 October 2025 12.30-2100 8 $200.00 PECC Calvary Mater Tuesday, 14 October 2025 12.30-2100 8 $200.00 PECC Calvary Mater
Wednesday, 15 October 2025 12.30-2100 8 $200.00 PECC Calvary Mater Thursday, 16 October 2025 12.30-2100 8 $200.00 PECC Calvary Mater Friday, 17 October 2025 12.30-2100 8 $200.00 PECC Calvary Mater
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