Consultant Psychiatrist | Mental Health Service |

  • Western Australia
  • Permanent
  • Sun Jun 14 20:59:23 2026
  • P00785

Consultant Psychiatrist | Mental Health Service | Southern Perth Region

An exciting opportunity is available for a Consultant Psychiatrist to join a well-established public mental health service in the southern Perth metropolitan region.

This is a full-time or permanent/fixed-term opportunity with multiple positions available for immediate start.


What’s on Offer

✔ Competitive remuneration $365K – $465K p.a.
✔ Permanent or fixed-term full-time opportunities
✔ Multiple FTE positions available
✔ Leadership role within a multidisciplinary mental health team
✔ Teaching, supervision, and training responsibilities
✔ Strong focus on patient safety and quality of care
✔ Collaborative consultant and senior medical workforce
✔ Opportunity to contribute to service development and innovation
✔ Supportive environment with structured governance and credentialing


The Role

  • Lead a multidisciplinary mental health team to deliver specialist psychiatric care
  • Provide assessment, treatment, and ongoing management of patients across inpatient and community settings
  • Offer supervision, training, and clinical leadership to junior doctors and multidisciplinary staff
  • Contribute to service planning, quality improvement, and clinical governance
  • Work collaboratively with senior medical leadership to meet service performance standards
  • Participate in on-call and service delivery requirements as appropriate

About the Service

This is a large, integrated public mental health service operating across a broad metropolitan catchment in southern Perth.

The service provides a mix of inpatient mental health care, community psychiatry, rehabilitation, and specialist services. It supports a multidisciplinary workforce including consultants, registrars, nursing staff, allied health professionals, and junior medical staff.

The environment is strongly focused on education, clinical excellence, and continuous service improvement, with established teaching and supervision structures for trainees.


What We’re Looking For

  • Specialist registration (or eligibility) with AHPRA
  • Fellowship of RANZCP (or equivalent)
  • Strong clinical experience in general adult psychiatry
  • Commitment to multidisciplinary, patient-centred care
  • Interest in teaching, supervision, and service development
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a senior clinical team

Why This Role?

This is a strong opportunity for a Consultant Psychiatrist looking to step into a well-supported senior role with leadership, teaching, and service development responsibilities across a busy metropolitan mental health system.

You’ll have the chance to shape services, support junior doctors, and contribute to meaningful system-wide impact in public mental health care.


About Paragon Medics

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