Medical Director Mental Health jobs

Your new role:
The Director, Division of Adult Mental Health Services is to provide specialist clinical care and assume responsibility for the delivery of clinical addiction and mental health services for inpatient and community services within the designated sites of Princess Alexandra Hospital Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services (MSAMHS). The Director, Division of Adult Mental Health Services is expected to develop strong links within Metro South Hospital and Health Service (MSHHS) to provide high quality service provision within the designated site.

About you:
This role operationally reports to the Service Line Director, MSAMHS and professionally reports to the Director of Medical Services (DMS), MSAMHS.
This role has strong clinical focus with a dedicated 0.8 FTE of clinical role and 0.2 FTE for administration.
Ensure patients and other staff are treated fairly and with mutual respect and understanding, regardless of cultural, religious, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.
This role provides expert advice regarding service gaps, challenges and opportunities for AMHS within the designated site.
The Director, Division of Adult Mental Health Services will be required to provide professional leadership, oversight and accountability for the addiction and mental health clinical services provided at designated sites. This may include overseeing and supporting patient flow across the sites.
To support integration with the broader health system by representing MSAMHS at relevant site based meetings and committees.
Collaboration is required between all sites and teams to ensure acceptable outcomes or consumers.

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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 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.

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