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About the Victorian Fetal Alcohol Service (VicFAS)
The Monash Children’s Hospital provides all paediatric and neonatal services for Monash Health across three campuses MMC Clayton, Dandenong and Casey hospitals. It is Australia’s third largest children’s hospital and Victoria’s largest provider of neonatal services, with 226 beds across three campuses.
The Victorian Fetal Alcohol Service (VicFAS) is a specialist assessment service based at the Monash Children’s Hospital, which undertakes multi-disciplinary diagnosis of children with prenatal alcohol exposure and complex neurological, developmental, and behavioural symptoms. The service provides clinical training in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) diagnosis for paediatricians, psychologists, speech therapists, teachers, occupational therapists, and social workers. A secondary consultation service is available for paediatricians. VicFAS is led by the Head of FASD Services, Developmental and Community Paediatrics and the team includes a Clinic Coordinator, paediatrician, neuropsychologist, school teacher, speech therapist, social worker and occupational therapist.
Children referred from a statewide catchment for assessment with VicFAS will typically experience severe impairments in multiple areas including cognition, attention, learning, speech and language, motor skills, executive function or adaptive functioning. They will have a history of prenatal alcohol exposure and are also likely to experience other complex psychosocial factors affecting their development and functioning.
VicFAS current service extends within Regional Victoria to provide additional diagnosis, support and education to children aged 3-10yrs, families and health practitioners. The Regional VicFAS program involves diagnostic outreach clinics to regional sites, a Regional Consultation service, and support to the regional VicFAS navigators.
The VicFAS is supported by the Developmental Paediatrics team at Monash Children’s Hospital.
About the Role
There is an opportunity for a Paediatrician experienced in Developmental paediatrics to contribute to the VicFAS team at Monash Children’s Hospital, to undertake assessment of children with pre-natal alcohol exposure and broader neurodevelopmental problems who have been identified as being at risk of FASD. The Paediatrician will attend monthly clinics to provide high level clinical assessments, contribute to multidisciplinary formulation, provide education to students and trainees, provide feedback to families and caregivers, and clinical recommendations as part of a multi-disciplinary team. They will provide secondary consultation advice and review of reports to paediatricians to assist in local diagnosis and management.
Further training in relation to FASD is supported and facilitated by the Service.
Research involvement will be integrated with clinical duties.
The Paediatrician will also participate in a range of development activities for the service not specific to their professional discipline. This may include representation at forums with peer programs or conducting FASD-specific activities for nominated patients or other activities as directed.
This is a part time (0.15EFT, 10.5 hrs per fortnight), fixed term (through till June 2025) role.
Preferred days: to be discussed. Monthly paediatric clinic and case conference are Thursday. Non clinical days can be flexible.
Location: The role is based at Monash Children’s Hospital, Clayton. Travel to regional sites (Geelong, Bendigo, Sale) for total of 3/ year for clinics is required, with the option of additional clinics if agreed with manager. All travel and accommodation costs are included.
Duration: This role is for a fixed term to June 2025.
What you need:
Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Paediatrics)
Appropriate health professional tertiary qualifications
Working with Children's Certificate
Experience in diagnosis and management of children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders is desirable
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)
• Proof of immunisation
Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses.
All applicants to positions with Monash Health will need to upload acceptable evidence of full vaccination against COVID-19 as part of their application. Acceptable evidence is a copy of your Immunisation History Statement or your COVID-19 Digital Certificate, 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.
