Description

Mental Health, Justice Health, and Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS) provides support to children, youth and adults via inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, justice health facilities and other community settings, including people’s homes. MHJHADS aims to be socially inclusive and operate within a recovery-focused and/or harm minimisation approach. 

Forensic Mental Health Services (FMHS) provides services to:

-        Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) adult correctional centre via Acute Response and Case Management Teams in the Custodial Mental Health settings,

-        Bimberi Youth Justice Centre (BYJC) and;

-        Dhulwa Mental Health Unit (DMHU), a secure mental health unit with 10 acute and 15 subacute beds. 

Requirements

The successful candidate will have specialist experience in Forensic Psychiatry and high-level skills relevant to both inpatient and community services, including custodial mental health skills. Under limited direction of the Clinical Director, you will: 

       Provide direct psychiatric services in a variety of settings, including the provision of ECT services. 

       Teach and supervise psychiatry trainees and medical students.

       Provide high level clinical leadership to multi-disciplinary teams and in particular: 

- Provide expert opinion and consultation on clinical work

- Participate in the development, implementation and ongoing review of the recovery plans for persons using the service. 

       Liaise and collaborate with medical practitioners, consumers, carers, voluntary, government and non-government agencies concerned with patient care. 

       Participation in administration and clinical governance activities and the after-hours roster as required. 

Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification, which may require movement within or between service areas, to assist in the overall operation of the organisation.