Paediatric Consultation Liaison Psychiatry SMHC

at  Monash Health

Reference Number

65941
Employment Type

Fixed Term Part Time
Entity

Monash Health
Department

Early in Life Mental Health Service
Location

Various Facilities

Position Summary

• Highly experienced in child and youth mental health support
• Medical and Mental Health
• Southeastern Suburbs
• Fixed term 0.6 EFT parental leave backfill position until March 2025.

The Paediatric Consultation Liaison (Paediatric CL) Psychiatry team provides specialist mental health assessments for infants, children and adolescents aged 0 to 18 years old, who are admitted as medical inpatients and needing mental health support and intervention. Paediatric CL provides both consultation and liaison services to a range of medical and surgical teams and a variety of paediatric wards across three main hospital sites, including the new Monash Children’s Hospital at Clayton, Monash Medical Centre, Dandenong Hospital and Casey Hospital.

The Paediatric Consultation Liaison Psychiatry (CL) Senior Mental Health Clinician position is a specialist clinical mental health role. The Paediatric CL team provides paediatric consultation and liaison to a variety of paediatric medical teams across the three sites of Monash Health who are seeking psychiatric mental health assessments for the 0-18 age range. The team also supports the emergency departments at Clayton, Dandenong and Casey. In addition to providing specialist mental health assessments and consultation liaison support to the general paediatric medical wards of the 3 sites of Monash Children’s Hospital, the successful candidate will provide crisis assessments and management of presentations of children and young people to the emergency department as well as liaison support to the emergency department staff. The clinician will work as part of the Paediatric CL team under its governance and support and, as such, will have opportunities to work in a variety of medical settings. This 0.6 EFT fixed term role will end on 14/03/2025