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- Exciting opportunity to work in Sydney.
- Suitable for overseas trained child & adolescent psychiatrists.
- Up to $400k (new wage agreements for 2025/2026 will surpass this).
Community highlights
- Modern city with world-class extensive cultural, sporting, academic and commercial assets.
- The most beautiful harbour city on the planet.
- Beach, harbourside, CBD or leafy suburban lifestyles.
- Vibrant and multicultural communities.
- Extensive partner/spousal employment opportunities.
- Rich choice of independent schooling.
Package includes base salary, private practice allowance, oncall allowances, $38k professional development allowance and superannuation.
This exciting Sydney based job opportunity is within the mental health service of NSW's largest paediatric health service.
This hospital and mental health service delivers quality care for over 90k sick and injured children annually. As the largest paediatric centre in New South Wales, it serves children from across NSW, Australia, and the Pacific, delivering exceptional specialist care in a supportive, compassionate, and healing environment.
Renowned for its clinical expertise, community education, advocacy for child health, and innovative research into childhood illnesses, the hospital stands as a world-class institution dedicated to improving young lives.
It is a public hospital, with a team of over 4,700 staff across 150 departments, The Children’s Hospital offers family-focused care, handling 39k inpatient admissions, 65k emergency department visits, and 771k outpatient services annually.
Eating disorders
The Eating Disorders Service operates in close collaboration with the Adolescent Medicine and Mental Health departments, ensuring comprehensive, multidisciplinary care.
Outpatient support is delivered through the Maudsley approach, a family-based treatment model specifically designed to address adolescent anorexia nervosa.
In addition to clinical care, the service is dedicated to providing education and training programs while advancing research into the causes and innovative treatments for eating disorders.
As consultant - staff specialist - psychiatrist
Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing safe, evidence based treatment.
- Supervision of care by relevant staff.
- Telepsychiatry
- Management of inpatients.
- Within a multidisciplinary team setting, provide first class services to patients, families and carers.
- Initiate and participate in quality improvement activities.
- Take part in internal training and education of medical colleagues.
Selection criteria
- FRANZCP or equivalent gained in NZ, UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, South Africa.
- Strong experience in child and adolescent psychiatry and eating disorders with children and adolescents.
- Experience in leadership and collaboration within a multidisciplinary team context.
- High level communication skills.
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching and education.
- Commitment to your own professional development.
- Demonstrated commitment to quality improvement and clinical excellence.
- Willingness to participate in an on-call roster.
Register via this site or call/message Alasdair Spinner on +44 7414 531 583 or alasdair@spinnermedical.com or schedule a time to speak with Alasdair https://calendly.com/alasdair-spinnermedical/chat-with-alasdair
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