Consultant Paediatrician

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Medical

Reference: 57321

**About Monash Health**

**About Monash Doctors**

There are more than 1,500 Junior Medical staff positions at Monash Health in over 200 medical specialties, to help grow your career. We offer unparalleled opportunities in Victoria's largest & most clinically diverse teaching health service.

**About Monash Sleep Centre**

Melbourne Children's Sleep Centre (MCSC) is a state wide NATA accredited paediatric sleep service and unique in providing all types of sleep studies for all age groups of children across Victoria. It is located in a custom built paediatric sleep centre based at Monash Children's Hospital (MCH). The unit is staffed by 2 consultants, a full time paediatric sleep advanced trainee, 15 sleep scientists, 5 nurses and 3 administration staff. MCSC performs 30 inpatient sleep studies per week along with a home oximetry service which performs 30-40 tests per week. A portable sleep unit is available for inpatient sleep studies in NICU and PICU. An extensive non-invasive ventilation service is managed by the 2 consultants and staffed by a dedicated clinical nurse educator and 2 sleep scientists. The consultants provide both outpatient and inpatient consultative services for paediatric sleep.

**MCSC has a strong research program which in conjunction with Monash University is recognized as the most productive research group in paediatric sleep medicine in Australasia and is ranked second internationally (Scopus). Multiple NHMRC grants along with other funding sources have allowed the development of multiple research projects which each year lead to publications and presentations.**
**About the Role**

**To support the MCSC Director and Non-Invasive Ventilation Director to oversee and direct the provision of the paediatric sleep study, home oximetry, non-invasive ventilation and apnoea monitoring services provided by the MCSC. To provide both outpatient and inpatients consultative services for paediatric sleep.**
- ** Provide clinical leadership through active involvement in patient care**:

- Be available to medical colleagues for consultation and liaison as appropriate regarding patient care
- Support academic, research, education, training & supervision (both undergraduate and postgraduate) roles within Monash Childrens Hospital

**What You Need**:

- Relevant Qualification (aligned to position description)
- Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a specialist in Sleep Medicine (Paediatric)
- Demonstrated experience (aligned to position description noting no reference to years of experience)
- Include any other mandatory/required skills or licenses
- Australian working rights
- Willingness to take on a portfolio(s) contributing to ward quality improvements & National Standards

**What we offer**:

- Salary packaging
- Onsite discounted staff parking
- Discounted banking (BankVic)
- Onsite Gym
- Access to professional development courses and seminars

**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.
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 Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.