Job Description

Position Title: Staff Specialist – Older People’s Mental Health Service (OPMHS) Employment Type: Permanent Part Time Hours per week: 0.8 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 undefined

About the role

The OPMHS provides integrated clinical services to the older people’s population of the St Vincent’s Mental Health Service catchment area (and beyond, as required). The OPMHS model of care includes inpatient, consultation-liaison, hospital outpatients, community clinics and outreach to older people at home and residential aged care facilities. This position will act as a senior clinician within a multidisciplinary team providing psychiatric assessment and treatment in the above-mentioned settings. This position will also provide clinical leadership in promoting a high standard of patient care as well as service improvement, innovation and evaluation. There is capacity for the incumbent to work in other positions across the Mental Health and Homeless Health service on mutual agreement.

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 Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) or equivalent as provided for in the Staff Specialist’s State Award and possess, or are working towards possessing, the RANZCP Certificate of Advanced Training in Psychiatry of Old Age (or equivalent qualification); and a Medicare provider number.
- Demonstrated knowledge, skills and high standards of clinical practice in Psychiatry of Old Age (including electroconvulsive therapy) commensurate to experience which is appropriate to the requirements of the position.
- 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 collaborative 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, medical students and non-medical colleagues.
- Demonstrated leadership skills that support and foster a culture of safety learning, 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 setting.

For more information, please contact Dr Michael Millard, Clinical Director of Mental Health and Homeless Health – [email protected] For a copy of the position description, please email [email protected]

Reconciliation Action Plan

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.

For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at [email protected]

St Vincent’s Health Australia has been serving Australians with compassionate health and aged care since our first hospital was established in Sydney in 1857. Founded by the Sisters of Charity more than 180 years ago, St Vincent’s is a clinical, research and education leader delivering private hospital, public hospital and aged care services across NSW, VIC and QLD. Our founder, Mary Aikenhead’s vision, commitment and inspiration lives on in us and the work we do. From modest beginnings, St Vincent’s Health Australia is today the nation’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider, offering services in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, including public and private hospitals and aged care facilities. The St Vincent’s family comprises 22,000 outstanding nurses, researchers, cooks, doctors, executives, administrators, cleaners, volunteers and more.

📌 Staff Specialist – Older People’s Mental Health Service (OPMHS) (Sydney)
🏢 St Vincent's Health Australia
📍 Sydney