The Older Persons Mental Health Service (OPMHS) provides comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment and treatment of older adults with complex mental health conditions in a range of settings including acute inpatient and community mental health. This position will provide clinical leadership, supervision and training within multidisciplinary adult mental health team/s across the Service, to support high quality patient care. To facilitate continuous service evaluation, and allow to develop service initiatives in mental health. The role of the Senior Medical Officer (SMO) is to provide high quality clinical and non-clinical services to directly or indirectly benefit the patients/clients of the Health Service. This includes research as well as teaching the health professionals of the future. In addition to the key responsibilities listed below, the role of the Senior Medical Officer is to provide such services as may be reasonably directed from time to time by the Professional or Operational manager. Requirements Mandatory possession of a medical qualification from a registered tertiary institution and Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency with a current annual practising certificate is essential. • Fellowship or eligibility for Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists including maintenance of CPD and good standing as required by AHPRA for the maintenance of Specialist Registration. • Specialist Registrants will be preferred in all positions; however non-specialists or overseas trained specialists may be considered where appropriate and significant progression towards fellowship can be demonstrated. Applicants who have completed specialist qualifications but are yet to be registered as a specialist, are encouraged to apply. • All such qualifications should be submitted to AHPRA for inclusion on their website in which case, this will provide evidence of qualification. Copies of the required information must also be provided in sufficient time to enable the awarding of Scope of Clinical Practice (SoCP) prior to the commencement date. • All applicants must be awarded Scope of Clinical Practice (SoCP) by the Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service Credentialing and SoCP committee. Information presented for application will be presented to the committee during the selection process, and all appointments are subject to maintenance of SoCP within the CSCF for the facilities in which clinical work is to be undertaken. This process must be completed before commencement. • This position requires the incumbent to work at other facilities within the Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service. • Licence to Operate Vehicle: This position requires the incumbent to operate a class C motor vehicle and an appropriate licence endorsement to operate this vehicle is required. Proof of this endorsement must be provided prior to the commencement of duty. • Hepatitis B Vaccination: Health Care Workers in Queensland Health whose occupation poses a potential risk of exposure to blood or body fluids must be immunised against Hepatitis B according to the National Health and Medical Research Council Australian Immunisation Handbook and the Queensland Health Infection Control Guidelines. • Vaccination of Preventable Diseases: It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against the following vaccine preventable diseases during their employment: measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (chicken pox) and pertussis (whooping cough). Existing staff that are engaged before 1 July 2016 are not subject to this condition of employment unless they apply for a role with VPD requirements that is with a different Queensland Health entity (i.e. one HHS to another HHS, Department to a HHS, or HHS to Department) • Tuberculosis (TB): It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be assessed for their risk of TB. Existing staff that are engaged before 14 December 2018 are not subject to this condition of employment unless they apply for a role that is with a different Queensland Health entity (i.e. one HHS to another HHS, Department to a HHS, or HHS to Department). Should existing staff be concerned about their TB status, they should consult their GP or contact the Metro South Clinical Tuberculosis Services on ( or ( for advice. Pre-Existing Injury or medical condition - he Hospital and Health Service takes seriously its legislative obligations to manage the risks associated with pre-existing injury or medical conditions of prospective employees.
