AddressClassification: Senior Specialist
Salary: $254,198 plus superannuation
Position No: 32983 - 02HHH
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 24 May 2024
Contact Officer: Dr Chandima Perera on ***************@act.gov.au
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.
- Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).
To find out more on what a career at CHS can give you, the benefits of working with us and why Canberra is Australia's happiest city click here: Benefits of working with us - Canberra Health Services (act.gov.au)
About the Role:
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: CHS website
Medical Staff in the Canberra Health Services enjoy excellent conditions, and our Enterprise Agreement is available at ENTERPRISE AGREEMENTS
The CHS Rheumatology unit provides a clinical service to patients from the Australian Capital Territory and surrounding regional NSW. We will have up to 10 inpatients and receive about 1300 new outpatient referrals each year in addition to providing a consultative service and providing a timely and efficient clinical service being a key priority. Applicants must have had training in and current and ongoing relevant clinical experience in Rheumatology. The successful applicant will work in a multidisciplinary clinical environment with a team of nursing, administrative and medical staff, including trainees in Rheumatology. Participation in unit clinical governance and quality assurance activities and the comprehensive clinical service for Rheumatology is expected.
Duties:
- Provide a comprehensive Rheumatology inpatient and outpatient service delivery (both on and offsite) and provide an on call and consultative service as required; and commit to supporting the division of medicine internal medicine on call roster as maybe required to support patient care closer to home.
- Fulfil and maintain annual RACP and ARA Continuing Professional Development activities; meet and maintain the necessary standards of ongoing and safe professional clinical practice, AHPRA regulatory standards and complete performance appraisal requirements with unit director of Rheumatology as required.
- Actively contribute to clinical governance and quality assurance activities in the Rheumatology unit; and undertake clinical audits, support morbidity and mortality reviews, clinical pathway development and other quality assurance activities with a commitment to best clinical practice as maybe required by the unit and director.
- Contribute to unit lead education, research and teaching activities and commit to teaching, supervising, mentoring and training of Rheumatology trainees, Junior Medical Officers, other relevant hospital clinical staff and community based health practitioners as required by unit director; And as part of these responsibilities attend and contribute to hospital and unit handover and other relevant meetings as required.
- Undertaking other duties as directed, within the approved scope of clinical practice ensuring the delivery of high quality person and family centred, safe and high quality patient care.
For more information about this position and how to apply, please click here to see the Position Description.
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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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