AddressStaff Specialist/ Senior Specialist in Community Paediatrics
Full-time Permanent
Closes: 05 April 2024
Classification: Specialist Band 1 - 5/Senior Specialist
Salary: $188,151 - $254,198 plus superannuation
Position No: 57223 - 02GK6
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 14 March 2024
Contact Officer: Dr Blessy Charles on blessy.charles@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 7607
What can we offer you:
- City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
- Flexible working conditions.
- 11.5% Superannuation.
- VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates
- Up to $55,000 allowance reimbursement of relocation expenses for permanent and long-term appointments (subject to review and approval)
About the Role:
The Division of Women, Youth and Children (WYC) provides a broad range of primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare services. Service provision is based on a family-centred, interdisciplinary approach to care, in partnership with consumers and other service providers.
Women, Youth and Children Community Health Programs delivers a range of health care community-based services to women, children, young people, and families. These services include support, education, and information; counselling, assessment, and screening; early identification and referral; and the delivery of public health programs.
The Enhanced Health Services (EHS) includes the Early Family Support Service (EFSS), Enhanced Child Health Service (ECHS), Community Paediatrics and Women's Health Service (WHS).
Specialist medical services for children and young people are provided through the community paediatric outpatient services. The teamwork with an understanding of the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on the physical, emotional, and social development of children and young people and collaborate with others across the Enhanced Health Services to provide holistic care.
This team provides medical services for children and adolescents requiring assessment, treatment or review relating to suspected or established developmental delay or disability, and behavioural or emotional disturbance.
WYC are undergoing a program of continuous business improvements to inform best practices in the models of care as well as ensuring that the workforce and services are safe and sustainable. WYC are committed to rebuilding a positive workplace culture and are confident that we can deliver excellent health care to the community if we work together.
Duties
Under limited direction of the Medical Unit Lead you will:
- Work collaboratively as a member of the Community Paediatrics service, collaborate with Nursing, Medical and Allied Health professionals across the Enhanced Health Services, and with external agencies and health care professionals, to facilitate comprehensive care and interventions for children and young people with a background of trauma and complex health needs.
- Prepare medical reports and actively participate in clinical consultations, collaborative multi-disciplinary assessments, and team meetings to ensure the provision of evidence based holistic care.
- Provide leadership, in the supervision of Community Paediatric Registrars, and research programs in the service as well as taking a leadership role in student teaching in the Canberra Medical School.
- Contribute to a positive workplace culture by building collegial professional relationships and demonstrating a commitment to proactively seeking solutions when issues arise.
- Model an exemplary level of professional and ethical standards in clinical interventions and provide leadership to uphold the National Quality and Safety Health Care Standards and promote a commitment to high quality customer service principles, practices, and attributes, including through participation in evaluation and quality improvement programs.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for medical professionals.
- Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
For more information on this position and how to apply "click here"
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.
Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind
CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.
Canberra Hospital Expansion Project - CHS is constructing a new critical services building called 'Building 5' which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory's history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.
North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.
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