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Form of work Reference Number 59419
Employment Type Part Time Ongoing
Entity Monash Health
Department Mental Health - ELMHS
Location Monash Children's Hospital
Position Summary
Join one of the largest providers of clinical mental health services in Victoria
Help cover the Psychiatric Services at the Oasis Child Neuropsychiatry IP unit
Applicants must hold FRANZCP or equivalent
About Monash Health
Monash Health is an impressive organisation of seven public hospitals, 21 community health sites, five aged care facilities, university affiliated international research and tertiary education. We provide healthcare for the entire lifespan from pre-birth to palliative care and all stages in between, and we have recently opened the new 230-bed Monash Children's Hospital.
About Monash Doctors
There are more than 900 Junior Medical staff positions at Monash Health in over 200 medical specialties, to help grow your career. We offer unparalleled opportunities in Victoria's largest & most clinically diverse teaching health service.
About ELMHS
ELMHS provides a range of mental health services to pregnant mothers, infants, children, adolescents and their families within the Southern Region.
The organisational and clinical model has been developed to provide mental health care that is flexible and responsive to the individual and developmental needs of the perinatal to adolescents populations and their families. As such, this model will support the provision of integrated mental health care for young people, guided by consistent, service-wide protocols and principles of care.
About the Team
The Monash Children's Child Neuropsychiatry Inpatient Unit provides specialist assessment and care planning for children aged up to 12 years, with neurodevelopmental disorders (such as Autism Spectrum Disorder or Intellectual Disability) and/or who show severe or complex psychiatric, behavioural and developmental symptoms that indicate need for a short term inpatient service. A range of consultation services, brief emergency admissions, and planned assessment admissions are provided.
The unit is part of the network of child and youth mental health services (CYMHS) provided across metropolitan and regional Victoria. Patient care is carefully planned and managed through collaboration with local CYMHS care teams to ensure an integrated and effective service, tailored to the individual needs of each child and family.
The Child Neuropsychiatry Inpatient Unit is a centre for excellence with an active clinical and research program that integrates and enhances knowledge from psychiatry, paediatrics, neurology, endocrinology, and other specialist medical and allied health services.
About the Role
The Early in Life Mental Health Service of Monash Health's Mental Health Program is seeking a dynamic, experienced psychiatrist for 0.6 eft consultant psychiatrist position. This position is to cover the Child Neuropsychiatry Inpatient Unit based at Monash Children's Hosptial. The successful consultant psychiatrist would be working with a multidisciplinary team. The consultant psychiatrist position provides high-level psychiatric services within their approved scope of clinical practice as part of the Monash Health Mental Health Program at Monash Health. This is a senior Medical Position and carries with it the professional responsibilities of clinical leadership, teaching and training as well as administrative requirements.
About you
Applications should include an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae and the names of three professional referees. Applicants must hold FRANZCP or equivalent, be registrable in Victoria. A Certificate in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Mindful) or equivalent is desirable but not essential.
Please feel free to contact us directly to explore your suitability for this position prior to submitting an application -
Enquiries to A/Prof Michael Gordon Unit Head - Child, Adolescent & Family Stream, ELMHS Ph: 95941300
Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.
Applications will only be accepted via the Monash Health online Mercury System only. Email applications will not be considered.
Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:
reference checks
a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months
a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same)
proof of immunisation.
Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.
All applicants to positions with Monash Health will need to upload acceptable evidence of full vaccination against COVID-19 and Influenza as part of their application. Acceptable evidence is a copy of your Immunisation History Statement which can be accessed via myGov.
Offers of employment will only be made to candidates who can provide evidence that they meet full vaccination status.
Selection Criteria External Applicants - You are required to complete a Credentialing and Scope of Clinical Practice application via the C.Gov online platform. Please access the online link to c.Gov via the document in the attachments section. Please declare that you have completed this application by selecting YES to
External applicants – You are required to complete Stat Dec and attach it to credentialing application. Please access the form via the document in the attachments section. Please declare that you have completed this application by selecting YES to confirm. Internal Monash Health Applicants – Please
Contact Person
Name Position Phone Email
A/Prof Michael Gordon Unit Head, ELMHS 95941300 michael.gordon@monashhealth.org
George Antony Acting Program Medical Director 9792 7505 george.antony@monashhealth.org
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