Child Adolescent Safety Paediatrician (Casp) - Apply Via Ecrendential

Child Adolescent Safety Paediatrician (CASP) - Apply Via eCrendentialEmployment Type: Permanent Part Time
Position Classification: Staff Specialist
Remuneration: $186,241 - $229,825
Hours Per Week: 16Requisition ID: REQ481468Applications Close: 12 May 2024Where you will be workingAt Southern NSW Local Health District we are working to help our communities lead healthy lives. Our mission is that all people across our diverse societies are able to have timely access to the right healthcare in the right setting to maximise their health, wellbeing and independence.Southern NSW Local Health District covers a large area of the state, from Goulburn and Crookwell to the Victorian border, and surrounds the ACT on three sides, a total of 44 537sq kms. It extends from the pristine beaches of the NSW South Coast, the farmlands of the Southern Tablelands, across the picturesque Great Dividing Range and the spectacular Snowy Mountains. We are home to four large Aboriginal nations – the Gundungurra, Ngunnawal, Ngarigo and Yuin.Southern NSWLHD comprises of 2 Networks - Inlands centred around Goulburn, Monaro, Queanbeyan and Cooma, AND Coastal centered around Bega, Batemans Bay and Moruya in the far south-east corner of NSW and the Integrated Care Network.Southern NSW Local Health District covers a large area of the Southern half of NSW. Surrounding the ACT on three sides and all the way down to the Victorian border, it extends from the pristine beaches of the NSW South Coast, the farmlands of the Southern Tablelands, across the picturesque Great Dividing Range and the spectacular Snowy Mountains. We have 18 facilities and our hospitals take care of more than 200,000 people. As we are a major local employer, our staff are a part of our local communities.Why work and live in rural NSWWorking in rural NSW has many personal and professional benefits. The following link contain stories of some of our NSW Health professionals who live and work in rural NSW. They share why they choose to work in rural NSW and what they love about it.What you'll be doingThe primary focus of the Child and Adolescent Safety Paediatrician (CASP) is to provide clinical and strategic leadership to support holistic, child protection medical and forensic responses within the district. This role is also responsible for developing systems, policies, and practices, in partnership with the broader workforce, to ensure optimal health and wellbeing outcomes for children experiencing sexual assault, physical abuse, neglect and/or domestic violence. This role is expected to provide some direct clinical care to children and young people experiencing sexual assault, physical abuse, and neglect and/or domestic violence.Provides a complex person-centered clinical consultancy service for individuals, carers, and other health care professionals within the districts speciality services to provide a people focused quality clinical consultancy service in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.Selection Criteria: * Holds a medical qualification eligible for registration with the Medical Board of Australia as a Specialist Paediatrics with Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Paediatrics and Child Health Division), and appropriate knowledge and clinical experience to practice as a Senior Medical Practitioner in child abuse and neglect including child sexual assault.

• Completed forensic medicine training (or be enrolled and studying towards forensic medicine qualifications within 6 months of commencing in the role)*: • Graduate Diploma in Forensic Medicine (4 semesters part-time; 8 subjects) OR Graduate Certificate in Paediatric Forensic Medicine (2 semesters part-time; 4 subjects). • NSW Health Education Centre Against Violence (ECAV) vocational medical and forensic training including Child Sexual Assault Skills, Forensic Photography, Supervised Medico-Legal (including report writing and presentation of evidence specific to the PANOC context) or equivalent.
• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment and with a wide range of stakeholders, demonstrating excellent interpersonal and communications skills including use of information technology.
• Demonstrated understanding of and ability to respond appropriately to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and patients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrated knowledge of quality improvement methodologies and experience in initiating and implementing changes to improve clinical service delivery and outcomes, models of care, evidence-based practice, and practice development.
• Demonstrated willingness and ability to lead and provide clinical supervision including the ability to provide education, vision and research would be viewed favourably.
• Ability to be available to consult regarding crisis presentations, including willingness to be involved in roster for child sexual abuse.
• Evidence of current unrestricted driver’s licence and the ability to maintain. Ability and willingness to travel as the role requires. This may involve driving long distances and overnight stays.

This is a Category ‘A’ position, please read and understand NSW Health policy directive Applicants must have completed the COVID-19 vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.ASARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) 3 doses are required for Category A positions (refer to NSW Policy Directive PD2022_030 Occupational Assessment Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases).Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate.This position requires a Working with Children Check (WWCC) issued by the Office of the Children’s Guardian. For more information on how to apply for the clearance, please visit the Office of the Children’s Guardian WebsiteAustralian Work RightsPlease note that to apply for this position you must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident of Australia or be able to independently and legally live and work in Australia by way of your own Temporary Visa. For more information, please see At Southern NSW Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.Need more information?1) Click here for the
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