CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIST, Wodonga Regional Health Service, Wodonga, Victoria

Full-time Staff Specialist appointment with North East Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service and Greater Albury Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

Provide clinical supervision and leadership, plus direct clinical services to region

Possible research and academic development opportunity with Albury-Wodonga campus of University of New South Wales Rural Clinical School

The North East Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (NECAMHS) and Greater Albury CAMHS provide a range of contemporary child and adolescent public mental health services to the communities of the Upper Murray region of north east Victoria and south east NSW. Centred in one of Australia’s fastest growing regional areas, these organisations currently service a catchment population of 42,000 0-17 year olds on both sides of the Victorian-NSW border.

A Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist is now being sought to join a dynamic team of mental health professionals and provide clinical leadership to both CAMHSs. 

 

Reporting to the Executive Director Mental Services at Wodonga Regional Health Service through the Manager NECAMHS, the Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist will work across all aspects of the CAMHS’ programs, providing supervision to individual clinicians and service sub teams, direct psychiatric consultation to clients of the services, and secondary consultation to agencies and medical practitioners across the region. He/she will also participate in strategic planning and clinical procedural development through involvement in the senior management group of both CAMHS and specific planning activities of each service. 

 

Research and academic development opportunities are available with the Albury-Wodonga campus of the University of New South Wales Rural Clinical School.

 

Applicants should have a primary medical qualification registered or registrable by the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria and the NSW Medical Board; a postgraduate specialist clinical qualification in Psychiatry, such as Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (or other postgraduate clinical qualification in Child Psychiatry that meets the College’s requirements for this position); and experience as a Specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 

 

All new WRHS employees are required to undergo an Australian Federal Police records check.  A Working with Children Check will also be required.Financial assistance with relocation is available if needed.

 

This is an excellent opportunity for career development as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. In addition, the twin cities of Albury-Wodonga offer an unmatched lifestyle: capital city facilities and infrastructure without the hassles. They comprise a major regional growth centre, with Wodonga’s residential growth complementing Albury’s retail and commercial focus. The twin cities are 3.5 hours by road from Melbourne and seven hours from Sydney. There are multiple daily flights to Sydney and Melbourne. Albury–Wodonga offers outstanding leisure facilities for summer and winter, including almost every kind of water sport on the Hume Weir (bigger than Sydney Harbour) and the Murray River, and snow sports in the Victorian High Country. Education facilities, including a range of private and public schools, are excellent.

 

Additional information may be found on www.wrhs.org.au  Applications and enquiries should be directed in the first instance to Les McBride of Cleveland McBride Health Recruitment at:

 

Email: lm@clevelandmcbride.com

Tel: 03 9486 0500    

Fax: 03 9486 0200

Mail: Suite 4, Level 4, 372 Albert Street, East Melbourne, Vic 3002

 

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