Staff Specialist - Psychiatrist - Pathways to Community Living Initiative

St Vincent's Private Hospital Toowoomba - Sydney CBD NSW

1d ago , from St Vincent's Private Hospital

Position Title: Staff Specialist - Psychiatrist - Pathways to Community Living Initiative
Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Hours per week: 0.4 FTE
Position Grade: Staff Specialist
Salary: As per the award
Enterprise Agreement: The Named NSW (Non-Declared) Affiliated Health Organisations' Staff Specialist Agreement 2021
Department Name: Mental Health

About us:
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.

Benefits of working at St Vincent's include:

- Generous salary packaging and 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
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About the role:

The Pathways to Community Living Initiative (PCLI) was established to support the transition of long-stay

mental health patients into appropriate community-based living and services. PCLI’s aim is to transition longstay

patients - or those at risk of long stays - who experience very complex mental health issues back into the

community and create a practice change in inpatient and community services across NSW to decrease the





number and length of long stay admissions. This position will work within a multidisciplinary team to provide

psychiatric consultation, treatment, care planning and clinical oversight of patients referred to the PCLI team

using person-centred, recovery-oriented, family/carer-inclusive and trauma-informed principles of care.

Collaborative engagement with other clinicians will be crucial in influencing practice change across the mental

health service. This position will act also as a senior clinician providing leadership within the multidisciplinary

team.

Diversity and Inclusion at St Vincent's:
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.

Employment with St Vincent's is subject to you having current immunity status that complies with the Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases - NSW Health Policy Directive (PD2023_022) or subsequent revisions in force. Appointment and ongoing employment will be subject to continued compliance with this policy directive.

Selection Criteria:





- Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries and St Vincent's Health Australia.
- 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
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- Demonstrated knowledge, skills and high standards of clinical practice in Adult Psychiatry
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- 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 cooperative interprofessional contexts that include lived experience professions to support the delivery of an effective, high quality mental health service.
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching and supervision of specialist trainees, junior medical officers and medical students and non-medical colleagues.
- Demonstrated leadership skills that support and foster innovation to create a learning culture, with 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 commensurate with work in an academic teaching hospital environment.

For more information, please contact Dr Michael Millard, Clinical Director of Mental Health - Michael *@svha.org.au

For a copy of the position description, please email ***@svha.org.au

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Tor

📌 Staff Specialist – Psychiatrist – Pathways to Community Living Initiative (Sydney)
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