TITLE: ADDICTION MEDICINE/ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY CONSULTANT

Requisition ID: 3138
Location:Richmond, VIC, AU, 3121
Job Posting Date: 27 Mar 2025
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• We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
• We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
• As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
• Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
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• We do not accept recruitment agency application

ABOUT THE ROLE

Turning Point Statewide Specialist Clinical Services provides multidisciplinary specialist addiction care and support across Victoria. As a consultant addiction specialist (addiction psychiatry or addiction medicine), you will be a key member of the multidisciplinary team, providing leadership and clinical governance across a range of programs. Sessional clinics will include our statewide opioid pharmacotherapy service, and addiction medicine and psychiatry assessments. The role will also support supervision for senior registrars and teaching of junior doctors and medical students. Along with driving quality improvement in this clinical program, the incoming consultant have an opportunity to contribute to the broader roles that Turning Point has in addiction treatment leadership, advocacy and policy across the state.
The role is part time (6 sessions) and fixed term, and will be backfilling long service leave.

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Contact Person: A/Prof Shalini Arunogiri
Contact Number: 0417 740912
Contact Email: shalini.arunogiri@easternhealth.org.au
Job Posting End Date: 30/04/2025