Staff Specialist - Intellectual and Developmental Disability

Your new role:

This role provides specialist psychiatry the Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) support and clinical care to patients across inpatient and community settings and assumes overall responsibility for patient care.  Services provided include:

• Provides specialist services at Metro South Hospital and Health Service,
• Provides inpatient care, including participating in the on-call roster
• Undertakes elective and/or emergency surgery / procedures
• Provides inpatient consultations as requested
• Provides outpatient consultations
• Participates in multidisciplinary clinics and meetings
• Supervision and teaching of registrars, junior doctors and medical students, and teaching for other members of the multidisciplinary team
• Participation and or leadership of research and quality improvement activities

About you:

Being a practitioner in the field of Intellectual and Developmental Disability.

Have demonstrated further professional development in the field of Intellectual and Developmental Disability. This may be achieved through self-guided learning as part of a professional development plan or through completion of a training program.

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.