Job Description:

Consultant Psychiatrist - Child, Adolescent & Young Adult Services Regional Tertiary Public Health Service | North Queensland Total remuneration up to AUD $534,040 p.a. FTE (inclusive of incentives)

We are partnering with a large regional tertiary Hospital and Health Service delivering the full spectrum of public mental health care across a vast North Queensland catchment. Positions sit within an established Child, Adolescent and Young Adult mental health division based at a modern, purpose-built regional health campus, and are supported by an experienced multidisciplinary team, strong academic partnerships with a leading North Queensland university, and a network of 21 facilities spanning tertiary, regional, and remote outreach services.

The service provides complex secondary and tertiary psychiatric care to children, adolescents, and young adults across a comprehensive continuum, including:

• Acute adolescent inpatient care
• Community-based child and youth mental health teams
• A dedicated regional adolescent forensic mental health service
• An early intervention team focused on first-episode presentations and emerging serious mental illness

Your opportunity

• Deliver expert consultant psychiatric care across acute inpatient, community, forensic, and early intervention settings
• Rotate across teams aligned to your interests and expertise, or negotiate a stable primary attachment
• Contribute to the clinical leadership, teaching, and supervision of registrars, trainees, and the multidisciplinary workforce
• Engage in research and teaching through the service's university partnership
• Support outreach into rural, remote, and Indigenous communities - a genuine draw for clinicians with an interest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health
• Play an active role in shaping and expanding a growing regional CAYAS service
• Positions available at Staff Specialist and Senior Staff Specialist level (L18-L27), dependent on experience

Requirements

• Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) with completed or advanced training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Specialist registration, or eligibility for specialist registration, with the Medical Board of Australia
• SIMGs with a "Substantially Comparable" RANZCP outcome are strongly encouraged to apply - our client is genuinely open to overseas-trained specialists and has a strong track record of supporting international clinicians through the specialist pathway
• Current Class C driver's licence
• Ability to meet Queensland Health credentialling and Scope of Clinical Practice requirements
• Compliance with the service's Vaccine Preventable Disease screening and pre-employment check policies
• A genuine interest in working within a regional, culturally diverse service environment