Address- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
- Total Indicative Remuneration: $346,650 - $778,921 p.a. (pro rata)– MD2 - Ongoing Part-Time – working 22.5 hours per week
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.
With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.
Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
Benefits of working at NALHN:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.
Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.
About You:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Cardiology Consultant looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.
In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Cardiologist within the Cardiology Department with a special expertise to manage patients with Heart Failure and have excellent training in non-invasive cardiac imaging. In this role you will work within a small dedicated team offering a Heart Failure outreach service as well as be a part of the cardiac imaging team.
This position will entail a significant involvement in the NALHN Heart Failure service but also in the cardiac non-invasive imaging service and inpatient on-call service.
The Cardiac Clinical Services Stream support the following principles that underpin a co-ordinated and integrated approach to the delivery of sustainable, safe and equitable care for the public and staff by:
- Integrating cardiac clinical services across the region including research and training;
- Exploring opportunities for standardisation, consolidation and monitoring of service outcomes; and
- Training and development of the cardiac workforce.
In this role you will contribute to the hospital by achieving best practice in the design and delivery of clinical services to its patients.
As a medical specialist, you will contribute to the provision of safe, best practice clinical services to patients of the NALHN Cardiac Clinical Services Stream and to teaching/training of undergraduates and postgraduates.
To be eligible for this position, you must hold a Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or equivalent. Appropriate Specialist Qualifications and registrable with the Medical Board of Australia as a Medical Practitioner with Specialist registration; or another qualification as defined in the SA Medical Officers Award.
The Total Indicative Remuneration figure is calculated taking into account base salary, leave loading and superannuation as well as managerial allowances, professional development or any other allowances where appropriate.
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.
Check(s)
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 857733
Enquiries
Senior Medical Administrator
Phone: (08) 8282 0627
E-mail: NALHNMMF_MSS.GenericMailbox@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
1 March 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
857733 - Consultant Cardiologist - Heart Failure - MD2 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.
