• Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
• Whyalla location
• Salary: MD2 $243,212 - $320,467 p.a.
• Ongoing, Full Time

WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?

This role offers the opportunity to lead the delivery of high-quality, specialist psychiatric services across regional and country mental health services in South Australia.

Join our Rural & Remote Mental Health Service as a Consultant Psychiatrist and play a pivotal role in strengthening mental health care across the Whyalla region. Based in Whyalla, you will provide specialist psychiatric care, outreach services, clinical leadership, and supervision to medical practitioners while contributing to service improvement, quality initiatives, research, and innovative models of care tailored to regional communities.

Working as part of a highly collaborative multidisciplinary team, you will help shape the future of mental health services by partnering with consumers, families, carers, community organisations, and healthcare providers. This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on mental health outcomes while influencing strategic direction, mentoring clinicians, and advancing evidence-based practice across rural and remote South Australia.

WHO ARE WE?

The appointed consultant will join the Rural & Remote Mental Health Service Consultant Psychiatry Team at Glenside and report to the Clinical Director. The role involves liaising with mental health consumers, carers, families, community organisations, and external service providers within the Whyalla catchment area.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Are you a Consultant Psychiatrist with experience in providing specialist mental health services across country and regional communities?
• Do you have the clinical expertise and leadership skills to guide teams, improve patient outcomes, and mentor junior clinicians?
• Are you ready to contribute to research, service reform, and quality improvement initiatives that enhance mental health care in regional settings?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions – then read on…

HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?

• Provide specialist psychiatric assessment, treatment, and clinical leadership across inpatient, outpatient, community, and home-based settings.
• Support clinicians, general practitioners, and multidisciplinary teams to manage complex cases and implement least restrictive care practices.
• Lead teaching, mentoring, and supervision of undergraduate students, postgraduate medical trainees, and mental health staff.
• Contribute to quality, safety, risk management, and research initiatives to improve service delivery and outcomes for consumers.
• Provide strategic clinical advice, policy input, and governance support across regional mental health services.

WHAT WILL WE OFFER YOU IN RETURN?

At BHFLHN, not only will you be working in an environment surrounded by beautiful scenery and nature we see your work here as not just as a job, but an opportunity to extend, progress or consolidate your career with us. We therefore offer you opportunities to be supported in the following ways:

• Total Indicative Remuneration (TIRP) includes award salary, remote call allowance, professional development, A&R Allowance, Super, Private Practice Arrangements (if applicable).
• Regional incentive according to MMM Zone for doctors for up to three years (if applicable).
• Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year Click here more information
• Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities.
• Support for you and your family via our free Employee Assistance Program.
• Health and Fitness Benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to BHFLHN staff and their families.

WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW/WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS?

Working in this environment, it is important to us that we only employ people with the upmost integrity and commitment to serving the South Australian community and its visitors to the highest possible standards. To ensure that we meet that commitment there are a few checks that you will be required to undertake. These are detailed on the Role Description, but are likely to include the following:

• You will need to be immunised. Please contact the Enquiries Person for this position if you have any queries. Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy. Further information is in the application for to help guide you. 
• You will need to undergo employment screening, what you require is also on the front page of the Role Description.
• You must have a Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists & be registrable with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Consultant Psychiatrist.
• You must have demonstrated participation in continuing medical education since attaining qualification in psychiatric medicine.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We employ people as diverse as the clients we support and the environments we work in. At BHFLHN we pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees and therefore we encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community. We continually look for ways to support and promote diversity and flexible ways of working so please let us know what interests you. 

NEED TO RELOCATE?

Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. See what is available here: Relocation support | SA Health. Find out more about working in the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, and see what it looks like to work and live in regional Australia at: https://movetomore.com.au/

HELP IS HERE!

Please refer to all the details in the Role Description below (job ref: 946481), or reach out to Elizabeth Davison, Executive Assistant - Medical on Phone: 7425 6137 or via E-mail: elizabeth.davison@sa.gov.au

To find out what you need to apply, and what is required to be offered a role, please refer to the Applicant Checklist BHFLHN Applicant Checklist.pdf. Please also click here for our Australian applicant guidelines

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DON’T HESITATE! Applications Close on 9 October 2026 at 11:55PM

Eligibility: Open to Everyone

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