Consultant Psychiatrist - Womens and Perinatal
Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168
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About Monash Mental Health Program
The Monash Health Mental Health Program provides inpatient and community-based care to people of any age with a mental illness and/or those who have alcohol or other substance use issues. The Program operates as a number of clinical units including three Adult inpatient units (Clayton, Dandenong and Casey), an Older Adult Service, a Perinatal and Women’s Mental Health service (including a Perinatal and Infant Inpatient Unit), an Early in Life Mental Health Service (comprising infant, child, and adolescent services), Psychology and Specialist Services (PsySS), and a Drug & Alcohol service. Within these are a number of sub-specialty units, including the Eating Disorders Unit.
About the Role
Multiple ongoing sessional positions available, plus After-Hours On-Call as rostered
With the establishment of the new Women’s & Perinatal Mental Health Unit, there is a clearly identified need for the provision of increased psychiatric service delivery to women’s, maternity and newborn services at Monash Health. The Women’s & Perinatal Mental Health Unit provides specialist evidence-informed, integrated and interdisciplinary care to women with mental health co-morbidity receiving reproductive, gynaecological and gynae-oncology care, to parents with infants admitted to neonatology services who require assessment and short term management, and to parents who experience moderate to severe mental illness in the perinatal period. It has an overarching flexible and inclusive approach to support individual parents, as well as parent-infant relationships, infant wellbeing and the family system as needed.
The Monash Mental Health Program is a leader in research, education and training, and the new Women’s and Perinatal Mental Health Unit will build the capacity of mental health services to deliver effective and expert care to parents with mental illness in the perinatal period.
About You
What you need:
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Appropriate health professional tertiary qualifications
• Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
• Working with Children's Certificate
What we offer:
• Salary packaging
• Onsite discounted staff parking
• Discounted banking (BankVic)
• Onsite Gym
• Access to professional development courses and seminars
For further enquires on this position, please contact Dr Lia Laios (Unit Director, Women’s & Perinatal Mental Health Unit via Evangelia.Laios@monashhealth.org T 9594 6466
OR Dr George Antony (Service Director, Adult and Older Adult Mental Health) via George.Antony@monashhealth.org
Please click here for the position description
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How to Apply
Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online EHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the ‘Application Guide’
Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.
Applications close: 22 April 2025