General Practitioner – Mental Health, Advanced Training Specialist (MH AST)
Core
Deliver advanced mental health assessments, management plans, and therapeutic interventions within a general practice framework in rural and remote communities.
Role type
General Practitioner – Mental Health, Advanced Training Specialist
Builds
Integrated, person-centred care across RFDSSE bases, outreach clinics, and remote consultations
Domain
Healthcare, Mental Health, Rural Medicine
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Fellowship of RACGP or ACRRM with AST in Mental Health, managing complex mental health presentations in primary care, culturally safe and trauma-informed care, clinical leadership and mentorship, shared care coordination, chronic disease management, service design and community education
Responsibilities
Deliver comprehensive mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions, participate in safety and quality improvement activities, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, provide clinical leadership and teaching to registrars and students, facilitate referrals to specialist services, contribute to service design and community education, deliver general practice services across bases and outreach clinics, provide culturally safe care, maintain accurate medical records, collect and interpret patient data for research, coordinate clinics and report on KPIs
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with teaching responsibilities
