Consultant Psychiatrist - Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit / Community Mental Health

MedicalJobsAustralia.com Consultant Psychiatrist - Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit - Community Mental Health

Job no: 948290

Work type: Full time

Located in: Adelaide Metro Northern

Categories: Medical, Mental Health

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Modbury Hospital - MODBURY SA 5092

Salary-Total Indicative Remuneration: $387,427 - $490,911p.a. plus on call allowance, and Salary Sacrifice benefits - MD02

Ongoing Full-Time

About the Role:

Consultant Psychiatrists who want their clinical work to mean something beyond the appointment will find genuine purpose within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN). This ongoing, full-time role sits across both Mental Health Inpatient Rehabilitation, and North East Community mental health, giving you a rare breadth of clinical scope within a single, well-connected service.

Your Clinical Scope

Based at Modbury, you will provide specialist psychiatric assessment, treatment, and leadership across the Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit and the broader Modbury Adult Community Mental Health Service. Your key responsibilities include:

Delivering consultant-level psychiatric care to adults with complex and enduring mental illness across rehabilitation and community settings

Leading multidisciplinary team discussions, care planning, and clinical governance within the Modbury Adult Service

Providing supervision and professional support to registrars, junior medical staff, and allied health clinicians

Contributing to service improvement, quality activities, and NALHN's broader mental health strategy

What You Bring

Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP), or equivalent specialist recognition

Registration with AHPRA with no conditions that would limit practice in a public mental health setting

Demonstrated experience in rehabilitation psychiatry and-or community mental health with adults

Proven ability to lead and work within complex multidisciplinary teams

Strong understanding of recovery-oriented frameworks as applied within SA Health's mental health service model

Commitment to clinical supervision and the development of junior medical staff

To be eligible for this position, you must have a Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or equivalent, Appropriate Specialist Qualifications and registrable with the Medical Board of Australia as a Medical Practitioner with specialist registration; or another qualification as defined in the SA Medical Officers Award.

The Total Indicative Remuneration figure is calculated taking into account base salary, leave loading and superannuation as well as professional development. The TIRP is subject to Private Practice agreements, as well as participation in the Consultant on Call roster.

About You:

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

You will be joining a dynamic and expanding Local Health Network that is committed to delivering contemporary, innovative and high-quality health services within modern facilities.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

About Adelaide:

Adelaide is consistently recognised as a city that artfully combines its compact charm and world-class cuisine with picturesque nature escapes. Ranked one of the worlds "Most Liveable Cities" and "Most Beautiful Cities", Adelaide provides something for everyone combining a wonderful mix of nature with nearby beaches, rolling hills and wildlife and culinary delights with fine dining restaurants, award-winning cafes, bustling food markets and booming boutique bars. Events like the LIV Golf, SANTOS Tour Down Under, Adelaide Fringe and the Adelaide Cabaret Festival add extra appeal to living here.

About Us:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide.

NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care, as well as primary health care services with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management.

With a commitment for ongoing upgrades to our facilities and the introduction of new services, our priority is delivering exceptional health and wellbeing services that enhance the quality of life for our community.

With over 7,500 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

Our Local Health Network Sites and Services:

NALHN provides a range of hospital (inpatient), outpatient, community and home-based services across multiple sites in Adelaide's north and north-eastern suburbs, including Aboriginal health, mental health, and GP services.

Lyell McEwin Hospital - the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, paediatrics and outpatient services.

Modbury Hospital - a general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.

Mental Health Services - adult and older persons mental health services and forensic mental health services, across hospital and community settings.

Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Primary Health Care Services - provides culturally responsive primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in-hospital and across four community sites.

Primary Health Care Services - including GP Plus sites at Elizabeth, Modbury and Gilles Plains.

Benefits of working at NALHN:

From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you'll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for t

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