Consultant Psychiatrist

For all people in Australia living with mental health and wellbeing challenges to live a life that is meaningful to them.

Position Details

• Part Time (0.2FTE) Permanent Position
• Classification: Individual agreement with an hourly rate of $230 - $280 per hour + Superannuation
• Salary packaging arrangements providing tax benefits available for living and entertainment expenses increasing your take home income where part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, savings thousands in tax each year
• Location: Burswood, WA

About your new role

The Consultant Psychiatrist plays a pivotal role in the clinical governance, supervision, and quality oversight of the YES service. The psychiatrist provides psychiatric assessment, contributes to collaborative treatment planning, and offers clinical guidance across the multidisciplinary team.

This role supports the safe and effective delivery of care in line with the National Safety and Quality Mental Health Standards for Community Managed Organisations (NSQMHCMO Standards), and contributes to evidence-based practice, service evaluation, and development of integrated care pathways for young people across primary, community, and acute systems.

About Neami National

We're Neami. We're big believers in everyone having the opportunity to live a full life. We support people to achieve wellbeing and mental health outcomes that matter to them. We provide services across Australia for mental health and wellbeing, housing and homelessness, and suicide prevention.

For some people, this means having a stronger sense of self. For others, it may mean nurturing relationships or buildingthe confidence to tackle tomorrow. We support people to improve their quality of life in a way that suits them.

We're proud to support 34,000+ people living with mental health challenges each year across Australia and offer services over 40 different Indigenous lands.

Our approach is based on evidence: what has been proven to work and what people tell us helps. We adjust and improve our approach to make sure that we're doing the very best we can.

We value lived and living experience. We try to learn from people's personal experiences of mental health challenges, adversity, and interactions with support services. We use what we learn to design and influence our programs and services.

As one of Australia's largest providers of mental health services, we advocate for system change to improve lives.

We know the mental health system can work better. We passionately encourage reforms that reflect lived and living experience and give people choice.

Values

Together with our vision and purpose, our values define who we are and guide the way we operate. They are fundamental to our identity, and we align all our actions with them.

• Connecting
• Collaborating
• Learning
• Belonging

What will Neami offer

• Professional development through regular practice development sessions and coaching with your supervisor
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) through TELUS - providing holistic health and wellness supports and resources to Neami staff and their immediate family
• Flexible work arrangements are available for maintaining your work-life balance

What you will bring to the role

• Provides psychiatric assessment and review of consumers as requested
• Maintains expert diagnostic and assessment skills
• Provides clinical support and advice to the team to ensure high quality assessments and interventions to resolve or ameliorate emotional distress of consumers
• Supports team to ensure a strength-based approach is used when completing a mental health andneeds assessment
• Support collaborative care planning and clinical reviews with the YES team, including peer and family input.
• Provides formal and informal clinical case reviews
• Ensure risk and safety assessments are conducted in line with youth-focused and trauma-informed practice.
• Contribute to the development and review of clinical protocols, care pathways, and escalation procedures.
• Engage in regular case discussions and multidisciplinary reviews to support clinical decision-making.

What the role requires

• Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (police check) - disclosable outcomes considered
• Current Working with Children Check - required before commencement of work
• Registration with AHPRA with a current annual practicing certificate
• Membership with the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
• Maintain relevant Professional Indemnity and Public Liability $ 20 million
• Possesses relevant experience, skills and qualifications in Psychiatry
• Current Australian drivers licence and access to a car
• Australian working rights

How to apply

The terms and conditions of the role are listed in the attached position description (please select paperclip icon).

To apply for this position, please:

• Click the 'Apply' button where you will need to create a username and password
• Upload your resume and cover letter

When applying for this position, you are asked to tell us about your previous work experience, your suitability for this role and your answers to any target questions (where asked). Please include in your application how you would prefer to be contacted (whether via email, text or phone call).

If you are excited about this role, but only meet some of the requirements, we encourage you to call or email us to talk about this opportunity. We're passionate about creating opportunities and supporting professional development.

If your application is shortlisted:

• We may invite you to have an informal phone conversation to discuss the role and get to know more about your experience and interest and answer your questions
• We may invite you to an interview (which may be in person or conducted online via Microsoft Teams) with up to three panel members from Neami

If you have any further questions regarding this role which are not addressed in the job advertisement or position description, or if you require any adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please contact:

Jamie Waring, Senior Manager Operations - Safety & Homelessness - [email protected]

If you have any technical issues when applying for this role, please email [email protected] for assistance.

Applications Close: 1 August 2025

Be Yourself -Neami values and celebrates diversity including multidisciplinary teams and the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse people are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that is accessible, inclusive and reflects the community in which we live.

Neami is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We commit to providing accessible and safe physical and online environments for all children and young people. Click Here for full statement.