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About This Role Your new role: This role provides specialist forensic mental health expertise to Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services through consultation, liaison, direct intervention, and educational support, while maintaining overall responsibility for patient care.
Services Provided Include To provide specialist psychiatric services to forensic and high-risk consumers across MSAMHS. Provision of specialist forensic mental health input to MSAMHS through consultation and liaison, intervention and educational services. Provide psychiatry support to the various arms of the QFMHS as required for the consumers of MSAMHS. Work in partnership across the Queensland Forensic Mental Health service system.
About You
Support processes that optimise the efficiency and safety of entry, progress, and discharge of consumers from mental health services, including comprehensive assessments, interventions and goal planning, input into clear relapse and re-entry plans, discharge summaries and outcome reporting. This includes facilitating and completion of Violence Risk Assessment and Management Framework processes (VRAM).
Provides inpatient and community care, including participating in the on-call roster.
Provides inpatient consultations as requested.
Provides outpatient consultations.
Participates in multidisciplinary clinics and meetings.
Supervision and teaching of registrars, junior doctors and medical students, and teaching for other members of the multidisciplinary team.
Participation and or leadership of research and quality improvement activities.
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What We Can Offer You
We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role.
You’ll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world‑class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
About Us Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital‑based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.
We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
We are
better together .
Further information: We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.
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