2024 Clinical Microbiology Registrar

Clinical Microbiology Registrar

• 12 Month Full Time Fixed Term Maternity Leave Cover
• 05.02.2024 – 02.02.2025

As one of the largest hospitals in Victoria, The Royal Melbourne Hospital provides a comprehensive range of health services across two campuses. The Royal Melbourne Hospital plays a key role within the broader Victorian health sector as a major Victorian referral service for specialist and complex care being a designated state-wide provider for services including trauma. It also contains centres of excellence for tertiary services in several key specialties including neurosciences, nephrology, oncology, cardiology and genomics. We are also a proud part of the world-renowned Melbourne Biomedical Precinct, working in collaboration to advance research for continuous improvement of clinical care.
Your Opportunity:
The Microbiology Registrar role entails internal and external clinical liaison, acquisition of practical skills relevant to the laboratory, involvement with teaching, research, and quality assurance activities.
Laboratory consultation: general laboratory aspects of diagnostic issues such as clinical input, priority setting, workflow, selection of most appropriate test, rejection of inappropriate specimens and inappropriate test requests, testing methodologies and troubleshooting (pre-analytical, analytical, post-analytical), validation and verification requirements in medical microbiology, quality management of laboratory, laboratory safety across the Pathology service.
The Role:
Laboratory skill sets: Trainees are expected to acquire competency in performing microscopy, culture, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and other relevant microbiological methodologies.
Clinical liaison: provide consultation service to clinicians, nurses and other staff in Melbourne Health in relation to Clinical Microbiology diagnostics (including selection of most appropriate test, optimal specimen, appropriate testing methodology, result interpretation, add-on tests and referrals), relay of urgent and/or important results (e.g. CSF results, blood culture results, multi-resistant organisms results as required) to clinical teams, and provision of microbiology opinions for infection prevention issues (such as needlestick injuries, risk assessments in airborne pathogen exposures and risk assessments in sterilisation breaches).
Research: Laboratory based research is encouraged and supervised, a research project is expected for Part II candidates.
About You:

• Registration with (or eligible for registration) with the Medical Board of Australia
• Appropriate health professional tertiary qualification/s
• Well-developed communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Commitment to live the Melbourne Way - putting people first, leading with kindness and achieving excellence together.

Interested?
Find out more about The Royal Melbourne Hospital If you have any questions or require more information, connect with us. We look forward to hearing from you.
The Royal Melbourne Hospital is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity, ethical practice, and the principles of Cultural Diversity and social inclusion.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.
Selection Criteria Essential: Registration with (or eligible for registration) with the Medical Board of Australia
Essential: Appropriate health professional tertiary qualification/s
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