AddressStaff Specialist/Senior Specialist - Ophthalmology
Full-time Permanent
Closes: 17 March 2024
Classification: Specialist 1-5/Senior Specialist
Salary: $254,198 plus superannuation
Position No: 55198 - 02GEK
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 21 February 2024
Contact Officer: Melissa Warylo on melissa.warylo@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).
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 Division of Surgery is responsible for delivering inpatient and outpatient surgical services to the ACT and surrounding region. The Division includes Surgical Bookings and Pre-Admission Clinic, Anaesthesia, Pain Management Unit, Operating Theatres, Post-Anaesthetic Care Unit, Day Surgery Unit and Extended Day Surgery Unit, specialist surgical ward areas, medical and nursing Outpatient services, ACT Trauma Service, Intensive Care Unit, Capital Region Retrieval Service, Trauma and Orthopaedic Research Unit. These Units are supported by administration support officers.
The Ophthalmology Department is based at the Canberra Hospital. The Department is staffed by five Staff Specialists and five VMOs who support vitreo-retinal, medical retinal, corneal, glaucoma, neuro-ophthalmic, and emergency ophthalmic services at Canberra hospital, plus general ophthalmology, and cataract surgery at Calvary Hospital and the VMO's rooms. Other medical staff within the Department include two RANZCO-accredited Registrars, two unaccredited Registrar, and a resident (PGY2).
A staff specialist ophthalmologist position is available at Canberra Hospital and Health Services. The position would be suitable for a Canberra based ophthalmologist with postgraduate vitreoretinal surgery training (at least 12 months surgical retina fellowship), and involves providing regular outpatient services, elective and urgent surgery, and contributing to the on-call roster. The department of ophthalmology provides tertiary level surgical care to the ACT and region, and the successful applicant is required to demonstrate training, experience and competence in the management of complex vitreoretinal pathology including trauma, advanced diabetic eye disease and lens surgery requiring a vitreoretinal approach.
The Ophthalmology Department provides tertiary level surgical care to the ACT and region, and the successful applicant is required to demonstrate training, experience, and competence in the management of complex vitreoretinal pathology including trauma, advanced diabetic eye disease and lens surgery requiring a vitreoretinal approach.
Duties:
Under limited direction you will:
Provide expertise and high-quality Ophthalmic clinical services to in-patients and out-patients and contribute to the on-call requirements of the service.
Actively engage in clinical governance to ensure services are high quality, evidence based, safe and adhere to the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards. This includes but is not limited to participating in relevant committees and meetings including regular audit meetings, morbidity and mortality meetings.
Take leadership in developing systems and processes necessary for the provision of sub-specialty practice within the hospital, including procurement of required equipment and facilities, and recruitment and training of support staff.
Coordinate and contribute to multidisciplinary education and training, and actively participate in the training and supervision of medical students and medical staff (including interns, resident medical officers and registrars and fellows) within the Department and Division.
Promote and practice research in Ophthalmology and support a research program, either clinical or laboratory based.
Work in a multidisciplinary team to promote a high-quality safe consumer-focused service.
Utilise digital health and health information systems to enable the provision of safe and timely access to services.
Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.
For more information about this role 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.
