Are you a Consultant Intellectual and Developmental Disability Psychiatrist seeking a new professional challenge and a warmer climate?
- Fantastic lifestyle in subtropical Queensland.
- Competitive remuneration package up to AUD$550k (depending on experience).
- Additional overtime & on-call allowances
- Coastal living with islands, waterways and beaches, as well as national parks and Great Barrier Reef.
- Over 60 education facilities including public and private schools, special education, Wide Bay Institute of TAFE and the Central Queensland University campus.
- Regular daily flights to Brisbane and Sydney.
The Role
Bundaberg Hospital are seeking an experienced Intellectual and Developmental Disability Psychiatrist to
- Provide expert Psychiatric care assessment and management of patients with an intellectual disability or on the autism spectrum.
- This role will predominantly be a Consultation Liaison role to community and inpatient teams and may also include a small cohort of direct patient care, as part of an Intellectual and Developmental Disability team.
- Provide day-to-day supervision and training to registrars, junior medical staff and other health care team members.
- Participate in the on-call roster.
Requirements
Applicants should be registered (or eligible for registration) as a specialist with the Medical Board of Australia and be a Fellow of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) or equivalent as an overseas trained specialist who has completed their training in either the UK, Ireland, Canada, USA (ABPN certified) or New Zealand.
The Medical Board of Australia implemented a new expedited pathway to specialist registration in December 2024, eliminating the need for a specialist assessment with a specialist medical college for those with an accepted qualification in Psychiatry. The only accepted qualifications are MRCPsych and a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) after 2007. The standard Specialist Pathway or the Accelerated Pathway are still available to those who aren’t eligible for the Expedited specialist pathway.
The Hospital
The Bundaberg Hospital is currently a 158 bed acute health care facility with construction underway for a new hospital with at least 139 new beds, bigger emergency department, new operating theatres and an acute mental health inpatient unit.
The mental health service currently has Inpatient units, a Community Care Unit, a Step Up Step Down sub-acute unit, and an Older Persons Sub-Acute Unit as well as Community Mental Health Centres across the region.
The Area
The Coral Coast region of Queensland is a 4 hour drive north of Brisbane and its regional centre, Bundaberg, is centred on the picturesque Burnett River. The area is nestled below the Southern Great Barrier Reef and represents an incredible place to lead the life you always wanted to have. It really does provide a platform to enjoy a laid back, easy going subtropical coastal lifestyle that only Queensland can offer. Just 15 minutes drive from the city are the pristine shores of Coral Coast. Here you can fish, dive, whale and dolphin spot, snorkel the Lady Musgrave and Lady Elliot coral cays or experience the turtle-nesting phenomenon at the Mon Repos Turtle Rookery.
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