Western Australia

Elizabeth Clinic (post 2955)

Setting type: Private
Subspecialty: Child & Adolescent
Trainee level: Stage 3
FTE: 1.0
Contact: Brigitte Waters (pm@elizabethclinic.com.au)

Post will provide opportunities for supervised assessment of children and adolescents (0-18 years) presenting with emotional or behavioural problems related to their mental health.
Trainees will gain experience in working with children and adolescents presenting with high prevalence disorders (depression and anxiety) and developmental disorders, including attention deficit disorder.
This rotation will provide opportunities to observe the work of clinicians of other disciplines (including paediatricians, GP lactation consultant, and allied health) and to work alongside them to promote patient and family wellbeing
Experience of working within the private sector, including managing the presence of financial arrangements with patients, following of ethical practice, and maintaining professional competence within the potentially less structured environment of private practice.

Healthe Care, Abbotsford Private Hospital (post 78)

Setting type: Private
Subspecialty: Addiction/Drug & Alcohol
Trainee level: Stage 2
FTE: 1.0
Contact: Ms Dale Nelligan (dale.nelligan@healthecare.com.au)

Trainees will gain skills, and experience in the assessment and treatment of a wide range of alcohol and drug related problems in an inpatient and outpatient setting. Training in the prescribing of methadone and buprenorphine and other drug and alcohol pharmacotherapies is provided. Trainees will also gain experience in the management of patients with psychiatric disorders with co morbid alcohol and drug problems.
Trainees will see a range of consumers from late adolescence to old age, across all socioeconomic demographics with a significant number of people from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Healthe Care, Abbotsford Private Hospital (post 2137)

Setting type: Private
Subspecialty: Addiction/Drug & Alcohol
Trainee level: Stage 2
FTE: 1.0
Contact: Ms Dale Nelligan (dale.nelligan@healthecare.com.au)

Gain knowledge, skills and experience in the assessment, management and treatment of a wide range of alcohol and drug problems as well as mental illness complicated by or arising from substance abuse and the impact on the family.
Experience diagnosing and managing acute withdrawal states.
Opportunity to prescribe relapse prevention pharmacotherapies for alcohol dependence and prevention and maintenance pharmacotherapies for opioid dependence.
Experience providing individual and family counselling, supportive and cognitive therapies as well as information about treatment options.

Healthe Care, Marian Centre / Abbotsford Private Hospital (post 2957)

Setting type: Private
Subspecialty: General Adult, Addiction
Trainee level: Stages 2
FTE: 1.0
Contact: Ms Dympna Brbich (healthecaregrants@gmail.com)

Patient-centered care supporting active involvement of patients, and with the patient's approval, their families and / or carers in the decision making process about individual options for treatment.
Day patient therapy programs from evidence based psychological programs
Linkages with General Practitioners and other Primary Care providers
Provision of psychological and psychiatric support for patients with complex medical problems and disabilities

Healthe Care, Marian Centre (post 105)

Setting type: Private
Subspecialty: General Adult
Trainee level: Stages 1 & 2
FTE: 1.0
Contact: Ms Dympna Brbich (healthecaregrants@gmail.com)

Gain knowledge, skills and experience in the assessment, management and treatment of a wide range of alcohol and drug problems as well as mental illness complicated by or arising from substance abuse and the impact on the family.
Experience diagnosing and managing acute withdrawal states.
Opportunity to prescribe relapse prevention pharmacotherapies for alcohol dependence and prevention and maintenance pharmacotherapies for opioid dependence.
Experience providing individual and family counselling, supportive and cognitive therapies as well as information about treatment options.

Hollywood Private Hospital (post 2970)

Setting type: Private
Subspecialty: Eating Disorders
Trainee level: Stages 1 & 2
FTE: 1.0
Contact: Dr Andy Papa-Adams (papaadamsa@ramsayhealth.com.au)

The focus of the trainee will be the eating disorder inpatients as well as involvement in the anorexia and bulimia, and binge eating day programs.
Provides the trainee with exposure to a more unwell cohort under the direct supervision of an ED specialist.
The trainee will work as part of a multidisciplinary team including psychiatrists, psychologists, dieticians, nurses, social workers, and physiotherapists.
The trainee will also work in the day program for ED, which includes CBTE, mindfulness, and an exercise program.
Learning objectives will include the importance of adequate nutrition and management of refeeding syndrome (and prevention of).

Perth Clinic (post 457)

Setting type: Private
Subspecialty: General adult
Trainee level: Stage 2 & 3
FTE: 1.0
Contact: Dr Nick De Felice (nickd@perthclinic.com.au)

Gain exposure to a wide range of high-prevalence disorders, particularly anxiety and depressive disorders, personality and substance use disorders.
Gain experience in the treatment programs offered in a private setting.
Understand the role of CBT, DBT and other psychological therapies in high prevalence disorders.
Gain experience in psychiatry in the private sector.

St John of God Hospital, Subiaco (post 49)

Setting type: Private
Subspecialty: Consultation liaison
Trainee level: Stages 2 & 3
FTE: 1.0
Contact: Mrs Claire Kane (stp.grants@sjog.org.au)

Trainees will gain experience in psychiatric care to medical and surgical patients in a private setting.
Trainees will gain experience in the care of patients presenting with pain (acute and chronic) and develop an understanding of its relationship to the practice of consultation liaison psychiatry
Disorders trainees are exposed to will include pain disorders, organic disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, substance use disorders, psychotic disorders and other acute psychiatric conditions.
Post involves liaison with the Benda! Comprehensive Cancer Centre, which will enable close working relationships with oncologists, palliative care physicians and surgeons, relevant multidisciplinary team members and GPs and Silver Chain in the community.

South Metropolitan Health Services, Peel and Rockingham Kwinana Mental Health (post 1985)

Setting type: Public
Subspecialty: Perinatal, Community
Trainee level: Stages 2 & 3
FTE: 1.0
Contact: Dr Thinh Nguyen (Thinh.Nguyen@health.wa.gov.au)

Provide comprehensive care for women with enduring mental illness (and their families) from preconception to parenting.
Provide preconception counselling and family planning for women with enduring mental illness and their partners under the supervision of the consultant specialist.
Provide psychiatric management of pregnant women with enduring mental illness in consultation and liaison with Obstetric Services and General Practitioner obstetric services.
Provide postnatal psychiatric care in conjunction with community mental health services, the child health network and relevant non-government organisations (NGOs).
Develop specialist skills in psychopharmacological management of pregnant women with severe mental illness and gain experience in infant mental health in a community setting
Develop a research interest and/or a scholarly project in perinatal and infant mental health.
Develop teaching experience with the UWA Medical School.

South Metropolitan Health Services, Peel and Rockingham Kwinana Mental Health (post 2943)

Setting type: Public Hospital, Private Setting
Subspecialty: Consultation Liaison
Trainee level: Stages 2
FTE: 1.0
Contact: Dr Gordon Shymko (Gordon.shymko@health.wa.gov.au)

An excellent opportunity for the trainee to gain specialist experience in consultation liaison services within a private/ public setting and within a rural location.
There is a broad range of exposure to general hospital adult and older adult presentations as well as peri-natal and postnatal services.
Working in a dynamic and innovative integrated mental health service there will be opportunities to provide consultation and liaison to the Peel Health Campus wards and emergency department as well as Murray District Hospital also ability to work with drug and Alcohol and Indigenous Mental Health Services as well as non-government organisations (NGOs).

W.A. Country Health Service – Kimberley Mental Health and Drug Service Broome Clinic (post 382)

Type of training setting: Public
Subspecialty: General adult
Trainee level: Stages 2 & 3
FTE: 1.0
Contact: Dr Louise Nash (KMHDS.RM@health.wa.gov.au)

Trainees will gain experience in the initial evaluation and subsequent management of a range of mental health disorders in rural community and hospital settings.
Trainees liaise with various health professionals including general practitioners, and other specialists in relation to ongoing management.

W.A. Country Health Service – Great Southern (post 1990)

Setting type: Public
Subspecialty: Consultation liaison
Trainee level: Stages 2 & 3
FTE: 1.0
Contact: Dr Noel Collins (Noel.Collins@health.wa.gov.au)

Complete the RANZCP requirements for consultation and liaison training (obligatory) and rural experience (optional).
Gain experience in working with a range of other specialties, including care planning in palliative care and obstetrics.
Follow up CL patients in the community and have the opportunity to work with CMH staff, NGOs and GPs to provide comprehensive care to patients with complex needs.

WA Country Health Service – Pilbara (post RANZCP-102)

Setting type: Public, Community
Subspecialty: Consultation-Liaison, Adult, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
Trainee level: Stage 2 and Stage 3 (Adult, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Only)
Contact: Dr Temi Metseagharun (temi.metseagharun@health.wa.gov.au)

Community Mental Health Service outreaching to remote Pilbara locations, with C-L in reach to the Pilbara hospitals.
Provide mental health assessment and management of patients admitted to the emergency department and wards of Hedland Health Campus, referrals from obstetric inpatient and outpatients, and Hedland nursing home.
The post can be completed as a community role, which involves monthly liaison with the local Aboriginal medical services and remote travel.
Option to participate in suicide prevention and Smokers Clinic.

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