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Consultant Psychiatrist (Forensic Mental Health) - Make the move to Melbourne

Melbourne, Victoria💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-28 → 2026-09-27

Core

Specialist psychiatric assessment, treatment, and leadership within secure inpatient, prison, and community forensic mental health settings.

Role type

Senior IC Consultant Psychiatrist (Forensic Mental Health)

Builds

Forensic mental health services across hospital, prison, and community settings

Domain

Healthcare + Forensic Psychiatry

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Specialist psychiatric assessment, forensic mental health advice, multidisciplinary team leadership, supervision of junior staff, service development, teaching, recovery-oriented care

Preferred skills

General adult psychiatry experience, acute or secure psychiatry experience, formal forensic psychiatry experience, postgraduate qualifications

Technologies

AHPRA registration pathways, SCARP assessment

Responsibilities

Provide specialist psychiatric assessment and treatment, deliver forensic mental health advice and leadership, support multidisciplinary teams in managing complex consumers, supervise registrars and junior medical staff, contribute to service development, education, and training, participate in quality, research, and improvement initiatives

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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