Staff Specialist – Acute Care Service (Community Mental Health)

Job Description:

Position Title: Staff Specialist Acute Care Service (Community Mental Health)
Employment Type: Temporary Part Time (until 31/1/2027)
Hours per week: 0.4 FTE
Position Grade: Staff Specialist
Salary: As per the award
Enterprise Agreement: The Named NSW (Non-Declared) Affiliated Health Organisations Staff Specialist Agreement 2021
Department Name: Mental Health

About us:
St Vincents Hospital Sydney is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing health services to our community. Guided by our values of compassion excellence integrity and justice we promote a culture of diversity and inclusion and empower our people to learn grow and innovate.

Benefits of working at St Vincents include:

• Generous salary packaging and Fitness Passport for eligible staff
• Opportunity to access a wide of range of clinical and non-clinical education programs
• Supported post graduate opportunities within applicable fields
• Career development opportunities across the St Vincents Health Australia Network
• Employee Assistance Program
• Work/Life balance

About the role:

The Acute Care Service (Community Mental Health) provides short-term community-based clinical services to adult patients presenting with a broad range of mental illnesses and disorders. This position will work within a multidisciplinary team to provide psychiatric assessment treatment care planning and clinical oversight of allocated patients using harm-minimisation and recovery-based models of care. This position will act also as a senior clinician providing leadership in a multidisciplinary team. There is capacity for the incumbent to work in other positions across the Mental Health and Homeless Health service on mutual agreement.

Diversity and Inclusion at St Vincents:
St Vincents is committed to employing a workforce that reflects the community we care for. We strongly encourage applications from people that are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culturally diverse sexuality or gender diverse and/or living with disability.

Employment with St Vincents is subject to you having current immunity status that complies with the Occupational Assessment Screening & Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases - NSW Health Policy Directive (PD2023022) or subsequent revisions in force. Appointment and ongoing employment will be subject to continued compliance with this policy directive.

Application Instructions:
To have your application considered you are required to upload a current CV/Resume as well as a separate cover letter/document addressing the Selection Criteria as below. Internal applicants i.e. current employees of St Vincents Hospital or an entity of SVHA are required to apply via their Workday account.

Selection Criteria:

• Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries and St Vincents Health Australia.
• Possess or be eligible to possess specialist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and a Medicare provider number.
• Possess or be eligible to possess Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) or equivalent as provided for in the Staff Specialists State Award.
• Demonstrated knowledge skills and high standards of clinical practice in Adult Psychiatry commensurate to experience which is appropriate to the requirements of the position.
• Demonstrated ability to provide high quality compassionate medical care as evidenced by recent practice experience in working congenially and collaboratively as both a leader and member of a multidisciplinary team and as a provider of services that engender high levels of patient satisfaction and experience.
• Demonstrated commitment to teaching and supervision of specialist trainees junior medical officers and medical students and non-medical colleagues.
• Demonstrated leadership skills that support and foster innovation to create a learning culture with proven ability to improve the quality of services and patient care outcomes.
• Demonstrated ongoing contribution to the development dissemination and translation of new knowledge and practices commensurate with work in an academic teaching hospital environment.

For more information please contact Dr Lyn Chiem

For a copy of the position description please email

The closing date for applications is 05 December 2025

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincents we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming safe equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

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