Visiting Medical Officer - Specialist In Radiology | Casual

Classification:Visiting Medical Officer
Sessional and Fee for Service VMO Contract
Position No: VMO02 - 02HX1
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 17 June 2024
Contact Officer: Julianne Siggins on ***************@act.gov.au or 0422390***

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.
• Flexible working conditions.

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

BreastScreen ACT (BSACT) is part of the BreastScreen Australia (BSA) screening program. The service offers free breast screening to all women over 40 years in the ACT. The program has a target age group of women between 50 and 74 years. BreastScreen ACT provides screening at three sites located in the Canberra city, Phillip and Belconnen Health Centres. All assessments are carried out at the Canberra city clinic.

Applications are invited for the above VMO position from suitably qualified medical graduates with Fellowship of the relevant Australian Medical Specialist College (FRANZCR) or equivalent, who are eligible for medical specialist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner’s Regulation Agency.

Duties include provision of clinical services in BreastScreen Assessment Clinics, BreastScreen image blind reads and teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate students. A commitment to teaching, clinical review and quality assurance is required. BreastScreen ACT provides breast imaging services comprising breast screening (2D), tomosynthesis and Ultrasound.

The Assessment Clinics and image reads are all conducted at the BreastScreen Civic site at 1 Moore Street, Civic.

The position is ongoing with an expected start date of August 2024.   The position may be awarded on application and review of references only.

Duties:

Under broad direction of the Clinical Director /Designated Radiologist, BreastScreen ACT and the Director, BreastScreen ACT.

1. Provide high quality clinical services in Breast Imagery and Interventional radiology to meet the demonstrated needs of the BreastScreen Australia (BSA) Program and the BSA National Accreditation Standards.
2. Contribute to the education and training of registrars in Medical Imaging Services including Radiographers training in BreastScreen.
3. Participate in research projects being undertaken in BreastScreen ACT
4. Work in a multidisciplinary team to promote a high-quality patient centred focused care.
5. Under the direction of the Clinical Director/Designated Radiologist of BreastScreen ACT, provide high level leadership in the Breast Imaging Services, ensuring that strategies are patient centred and meet the changing needs of the community.
6. 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, please click here to see the Position Description.

Note: This position will be offered on a casual basis up to two hours per week and the full-time salary noted above will be paid pro-rata.

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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