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Employment Type: Permanent Fulltime or Part Time
Position Classification: Staff Specialist
Remuneration: As per Staff Specialists Award, plus Allowances
Hours Per Week: up to 40
Requisition ID: REQ206622

What you'll be doing

Provide contemporary comprehensive specialist psychiatric services for optimal patient outcomes.

Provide and support training to clinicians across multiple disciplines to achieve quality education and safe clinical practice.

Why you should consider applying

We can offer you:

• Diverse career pathways
• Professional and personal development
• Help with further study and education
• Flexible and supportive work environment
• Opportunities to start or build a career, or re-enter the workforce
• Challenging, inspiring and rewarding roles, and
• The opportunity to make a difference!

Tired of big cities? Want to start your days sitting on your deck in the sun, enjoying a cup of coffee and listening to the birds? Or would you rather have a surf or a walk along the sand before work? Wonderful beaches, world heritage-listed national parks, hinterland villages, great food and fine wine, excellent private and public schools, warm and friendly staff are all waiting for you on the North Coast.

Where you’ll be working

Also known as the Rainbow Region, this area is blessed with stunning waterfalls, fertile farming land, artistic villages and relaxed seaside communities.

Northern NSW Local Health District embraces the diverse skills and perspectives that our people bring to the workplace. We foster inclusiveness and diversity to help us deliver quality care to our community.

NNSWLHD is committed to reconciliation and strongly encourages Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this position. All applications from Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people will be viewed most favourably. For help with your application to this role visit , our online recruitment resource for Aboriginal people.

Please note, to apply for this position you must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident, or be able to independently, legally live and work in Australia. For more information please see

Enquiries about this position from recruitment agencies will not be accepted. Candidates interested in this position must make their own enquiries and submit their own application.

Trainees who will attain Fellowship within the Clinical Year will also be considered.

• Eligible for full registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Specialist Psychiatrist with Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and/or overseas trained specialist eligible to be assessed by the College as substantially comparable.
• Approved as a supervisor by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
• Demonstrated recent clinical experience in Psychiatry at the role delineation of the service.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and provide leadership of a team.
• Demonstrated effective clinical communication through the use of information technology and written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to teaching, continuing education, research and quality improvement.
• Availability to participate in an on-call roster and to respond on site within a reasonable time and valid unrestricted drivers licence for use in NSW/Australia and willingness to travel in the course of employment, including overnight stays as required..
• Recent practice of Electro Convulsive Therapy or registration to attend an upcoming approved refresher course.

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For role related queries or questions contact John Wardell on John.Wardell@health.nsw.gov.au

Applications Close: 22 February, 2021

NSW Health