Job description
An exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary team at Brisbane Youth Service’s Fortitude Valley clinic!
The Brisbane Youth Service medical clinic provides a youth-focused primary care medical service for vulnerable young people (aged 12-25 years), who often have complex health and social needs, including both diagnosed and unaddressed mental health issues, leading to difficulties navigating health care.
You will have wrap-around support from a dedicated team as you help young people, and their children, address a cross-section of clinical disorders including trauma, developmental disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, substance use disorder, anxiety and depression.
Help make a tangible difference in young lives and create new, brighter futures for some of the most vulnerable in our community.
Our goals:
- Psychiatric advice and support for BYS GP’s regarding medication and treatment for our complex clients to assist with safer provision of care
- Conduct assessment and diagnosis for ASD, ADHD, SLD and intellectual disability in partnership with BYS’ multi-disciplinary clinic team
- An integrated model of care, delivering multi-disciplinary treatment and support to highly complex, disadvantaged and vulnerable young people within BYS’ safe and youth friendly environment.
What we offer:
- Wrap around support through on-site multi-disciplinary team, including GPs, Nurse, Social Workers, and Counsellors
- Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance (no afterhours/on-call work)
- Generous salary packaging
- Comprehensive clinic and admin team support for referrals, appointments, handover, follow-up, scripts, medication and medical support
If interested, please contact Matthew Pearce at 0459 480 504 or [email protected], using the subject line: Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist enquiry via EthicalJobs.
We look forward to hearing from you.
