Psychiatry Registrar – Youth Mental Health

📍   Penrith NSW | 🕒 Full-time | Permanent

🩺 Medical Practitioners Award + Salary Packaging

💬 Open to Contractor, Direct Employment or Locum

🏡 Hybrid model based on clinical needs | 📞 On-call: One week/month

 Gain valuable experience supporting young people aged 12–25 through Uniting’s Early Psychosis Program. This is an opportunity to grow your clinical skills in early intervention mental health care, supported by a collaborative and multidisciplinary team.

Join Uniting Recovery as a Psychiatry Registrar and develop your clinical expertise through hands-on involvement in early intervention mental health care, backed by a collaborative, multidisciplinary team.

About the Role

As a Psychiatry Registrar in Uniting's Early Psychosis Program, you’ll provide high-quality, youth-centred care to young people experiencing early signs of psychosis or complex mental health presentations. You’ll be involved in:

• Clinical supervision and collaborative medical reviews with consultants
• Independent medical assessments, care planning, and script writing
• Clinical consultation, case reviews, and brief therapeutic interventions
• Supporting recovery-focused care in partnership with our multidisciplinary team

What You’ll Need

• Current registration with AHPRA as a Medical Practitioner
• Enrolment in the RANZCP Psychiatry Registrar Training Program
• Proven ability to deliver evidence-based psychological interventions
• Strong commitment to trauma-informed, youth-centred recovery care
• Valid Australian Driver’s Licence
• Excellent engagement and communication skills with young people and families

Why Uniting?

 Be part of a highly collaborative, supportive multidisciplinary team

Make a meaningful impact in the lives of young people in your community

Work with a well-established and values-driven organisation

For Direct Employees Only:

Salary packaging benefits to increase your take-home pay

Access to Fitness Passport, URewards, and staff wellbeing initiatives

To apply: Click Apply and attach your resume and a cover letter addressing the essential criteria.

📩 Enquiries: Siobhan Cregan – Operations Manager | ••••@uniting.org

Employment with Uniting is subject to satisfactory background checks, which include National Police Checks, Working with Children Checks and Reference Checks.  

 About Uniting

Uniting NSW.ACT contributes to the work and mission of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT through social justice advocacy, community services and spiritual care. We provide care and support for people through all ages and stages of life, with a focus on people experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability. Our purpose is to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people.

Empowered by diversity

At Uniting, inclusion isn’t just something we value – it’s how we work. Our culture and practice reflect the vibrant diversity of our colleagues, and the clients and communities we serve.