Consultant Paediatric Intensive Care Uni

Position Details
Reference Number 64879
Position Title Consultant Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) - VMO / Casual
Employment Type Casual
Entity Monash Health
Department PICU
Location Monash Children's Hospital
Position Summary

• Work for the largest public health service in Victoria
• Develop and deliver an innovative model of care
• Enjoy working in a supportive, dynamic, evolving environment

About Monash Health and the Monash Children’s Paediatric ICU
Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service. We are proud to provide healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 22,000 employees work at over 40 care locations across south-eastern Melbourne, including Monash Medical Centre, Monash Children’s Hospital, Moorabbin Hospital, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, Kingston Centre, Cranbourne Centre, and an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities. For more information, please visit
The Monash Children’s Hospital Paediatric ICU is a new, 10-bed, state-of-the-art unit that opened in 2018. It is one of only eight tertiary PICUs in Australia and one of two tertiary Paediatric Intensive Care referral units for the State of Victoria. The unit is accredited by the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand and admits over 800 children a year with a broad range of general and subspecialty paediatric as well as surgical conditions.
The Monash Children’s PICU is led by a group of dedicated PICU consultants, an enthusiastic team of nurses and committed allied health professionals. We believe in supporting each other, in being kind and in providing the very best care to the children and families in our unit.
PICU Consultant - Casual
As a Paediatric ICU specialist, you are invited to contribute to the unit’s after-hours and weekend roster as well as to participate in the daytime roster if required and mutually agreed. When on clinical duty, you lead the PICU team in caring for some of sickest children in Victoria, collaborating closely with the supportive and committed junior and senior medical staff from across Monash Children's and Monash Health as well as with the state-wide retrieval service. Your work is challenging, varied, deeply meaningful and fulfilling.
About You
You are a qualified Paediatric Intensive Care Specialist and take pride in working collaboratively across a supportive multidisciplinary team to deliver excellence in family-centred care to critically ill children and young adults.
You have:

• Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine or equivalent
• Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Appropriate health professional tertiary qualifications
• Working with Children’s Certificate

Further information
For further information, please contact A/Prof Felix Oberender, Medical Director Paediatric Intensive Care,
What we offer:

• Salary packaging
• Onsite discounted staff parking
• Discounted banking (BankVic)
• Onsite Gym
• Access to professional development courses and seminars

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.
How to Apply
Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.
Applications will only be accepted via the Monash Health online Mercury System only. Email applications will not be considered.
Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

• reference checks;
• a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
• a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
• proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made. As part of our selection process, you may be invited by email to participate in an on-camera video interview. Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19. All applicants to positions with Monash Health will need to upload acceptable evidence of full vaccination against COVID-19 and Influenza as part of their application. Acceptable evidence is a copy of your Immunisation History Statement which can be accessed via myGov. Offers of employment will only be made to candidates who can provide evidence that they meet full vaccination status.
Selection Criteria You are required to complete a Credentialing application via C.Gov online platform. Please access the link to c.Gov via the document in the attachments section. Please declare you have completed an application by selecting YES.
External applicants - You are required to complete a Stat Dec and attach it to your application. Please access a form in the attachments section. Please declare that you have completed this application by selecting YES to confirm. Internal Monash Health Applicants - Please select NO and explain.
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