Staff Specialist Psychiatrist
St John of God Health Care
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Berwick, Victoria
Contract type: Full time
Your role at St John of God Langmore Centre
You will Provide professional specialist psychiatric services including comprehensive consultation and continuing care of patients requiring inpatient, day patient, and outpatient services.
This opportunity is being offered on a fixed term full time basis.
The Position
You will have demonstrated substantial clinical experience in the management of high acuity patients in a complex hospital environment and ability to implement sustainable change to improve patient safety and reduce unnecessary delays in patient management.
Above all, people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.
The Benefits
At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.
Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.
All caregivers employed by St John of God Health Care are required to be vaccinated from Influenza in order to fulfil the requirements of the role.
You will Provide professional specialist psychiatric services including comprehensive consultation and continuing care of patients requiring inpatient, day patient, and outpatient services.
This opportunity is being offered on a fixed term full time basis.
The Position
- Formulate a management plan for the patient in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, appropriate to the level of risk and presenting problems
- Consult and collaborate with colleagues and other health professionals regarding management including general practitioners, family and carers
- Manage psychiatric emergencies in accordance with standard procedures and within the legal framework of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act
- Participate and provide clinical leadership in effective discharge of inpatients, either from the services or to appropriate ongoing management programs
- Ensure quality and standards of care are met within own clinical practice and patient care reflects best practice guidelines and is evidence based
- Participate in risk management and quality programs including reporting of incidents, Root Cause Analysis (RCA’s) and M&M meetings, clinical audit meetings
- Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and regulations, policies and procedures
- Utilise appropriate information systems to enable informed decision-making and care planning.
- Communicate with the staff and clinicians across all disciplines
- Ensure timely completion of medical records for patients under own care including the completion of a final discharge summaries within 24 hours of discharge
- Engage in weekly case conference in person or via telephone during business hours.
- Complete documentation for health funds, insurance companies as per the agency specifies.
- Liaise with external care providers as required to provide a safe transfer of care
- Langmore Policy is 24 hours. Chief psychiatrist states as soon as practicable, ideally within 48hrs)
You will have demonstrated substantial clinical experience in the management of high acuity patients in a complex hospital environment and ability to implement sustainable change to improve patient safety and reduce unnecessary delays in patient management.
Above all, people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.
The Benefits
- A welcoming and supportive culture
- Highly competitive salary and entitlements, $325,215 per annum, plus 11.5 % superannuation
- Fixed-term term full time
- Competitive Continuous Medical Education support
- Generous on-call allowance
- Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
- Novated leasing
- Work related expenses.
- self-education and
- additional superannuation
- A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave and well-being programs
- Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
- Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Innovative Professional Development opportunities
- All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the requirements of the role
At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.
Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.
All caregivers employed by St John of God Health Care are required to be vaccinated from Influenza in order to fulfil the requirements of the role.
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