Staff Specialist Psychiatrist (Youth Mental Health) | Townsville Region
An exciting opportunity is available for a Staff Specialist Psychiatrist to join the Child, Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health Service within the Townsville Hospital and Health Service.
This is a permanent full-time or part-time position for psychiatrists interested in youth mental health, with the opportunity to work across community, inpatient-linked, and specialist child and adolescent mental health programs in a leading regional tertiary service.
What’s on Offer
✔ Staff Specialist Psychiatrist role within Child, Adolescent & Young Adult Mental Health ✔ Permanent full-time or part-time positions available ✔ Salary range approximately AUD $216K – $275K + super ✔ Employer superannuation contribution ✔ Generous annual leave ✔ Salary packaging options available ✔ Strong focus on teaching, training, and academic partnerships ✔ Access to leadership development and career progression pathways ✔ Multidisciplinary, supportive youth mental health teams ✔ Regional lifestyle with excellent work–life balance
The Role
You will provide specialist psychiatric services within the Child, Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health Service, working across multiple multidisciplinary teams and clinical programs.
Key responsibilities include:
Delivering specialist psychiatric assessment and treatment for children, adolescents, and young adults
Working across community, outpatient, and specialist youth mental health programs
Participating in multidisciplinary care planning and clinical review meetings
Providing clinical leadership within youth mental health teams
Supervising and supporting junior medical staff and trainees
Contributing to service development, governance, and quality improvement
Engaging in teaching, training, and professional education activities
Supporting continuity of care across complex youth mental health presentations
What We’re Looking For
Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) or equivalent
Specialist registration (or eligibility) with AHPRA
Experience or strong interest in child, adolescent, or youth psychiatry
Strong communication and collaborative multidisciplinary skills
Commitment to high-quality, patient-centred mental health care
Interest in teaching, supervision, and service development
Ability to work across diverse clinical programs and teams
Valid driver’s licence (Class C) required
Why This Role?
This is a highly rewarding opportunity to work in specialist youth mental health within a large regional tertiary service.
You will be part of a well-supported multidisciplinary team delivering care to some of the most complex and important patient populations, while benefiting from strong training pathways, academic links with James Cook University, and a lifestyle that balances professional challenge with regional liveability.
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Person Specification:
Candidates must show patience and good listening skills when working with pupils
Candidates must be organised and punctual to ensure they are in class on time each day
Candidates must be able to use their own initiative to support children and the class teacher
General Tasks:
Under the guidance and direction of the teacher:
Develop, maintain and apply knowledge and understanding of pupils’ general and specific learning needs to ensure that support is given to them at an appropriate level
Learning support is delivered individually and in groups through a range of tasks, mainly:
Supporting and directing literacy and numeracy tasks, clarifying and explaining instructions
Focus support in areas needing improvement, both academic and social
Work with and support pupils to allow them to use ICT and other specialist equipment to enhance their learning
Motivate and encourage pupils to concentrate on and fulfil the tasks set
Undertake learning activities with pupils of varying abilities to ensure differentiation and access to the curriculum
Seek to ensure the promotion and reinforcement of pupils' self-esteem, appropriate levels of effort and behaviour and to guide pupils to become independent learners
Contribute to the assessment of pupils’ learning, in particular with regard to Literacy, Numeracy, Science and ICT skills
Contribute to the implementation of the National and/or Foundation Curriculum and specific individual pupil targets
Assist in the development, monitoring and evaluation of programmes of work
Contribute to and assist in the development and monitoring of systems for review and recording of pupil's progress
Assist in the preparation, organisation and maintenance of classrooms and their equipment, including assistance with and creation of displays, make basic visual aids, art and craft materials, mount and display pupil's work
Assist teachers in timetabling of lessons and curriculum as required
Assist in the preparation for educational visits, and where appropriate accompany students
Attend and contribute to school staff meetings and in-service training events, within contracted hours or outside normal hours by agreement
To provide care and supervision of pupils within the classroom, within the school and outside of the school
Supporting Pupils with curriculum learning
Assisting with lunch duties
Working alongside PE coach during PE sessions and alongside teacher during swimming lessons
Working with pupils in small groups
Typically, the job will include all, or most of the following elements:
Supervise pupils using cloakrooms, and toilet facilities
Supervise pupils in playgrounds and when entering and leaving using school transport as required
Assist in the supervision of Standard Assessment Tasks and tests / assessments as directed
Escort pupils to school or parental transport, home or to hospital as necessary
Assist pupils eating, in a controlled environment
Develop an understanding of and provide for pupils’ specific personal needs to ensure a safe learning environment. This may include providing some direct personal care, support and assistance to the pupil in respect of toileting, eating, and mobility
To assume sole supervision of whole classes for short periods in the absence of the teacher, but only when it is essential for the teacher to leave a class, such as in emergency-type situations. This would not be expected in the case of inexperienced LSAs
Training:Teaching Assistant Level 3.Training Outcome:Potential for a Teaching Assistant role following completion of the apprenticeship.Employer Description:All of our staff and governors work hard to make our school one that is safe and nurturing as well as stimulating and exciting for our children. Our curriculum encompasses the demands of the National Curriculum which is enhanced and developed to match the needs of our children through a range of Quests – we believe that all children have the potential to become confident and independent learners. We try to support them to strive for this and start them on a journey of exploration that will last them a lifetime. This enquiry based learning is supported by the development of our five Learning Behaviours which we believe mastering each 'behaviour' prepares our children well for the world in which we send them.
We are fortunate to have amazing school grounds – our classrooms frame the brightly painted playground we call the quad and there is also a large school field and top playground where there is a range of wooden play equipment and a bespoke trim trail. We have a developed forest school area with a pond, which was opened by the Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset and many outside learning areas within our large school site. We are also very lucky at Bruton Primary School to have our very own swimming pool which we use as much as we can in the Summer Term.Working Hours :09:00 - 15:30, Monday - Friday.
30-minute lunch break each day.
Term time only (190 days per year).
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