Radiology Srmo

**Description**

**‘Creating exceptional health care together.’**
- POSITION DESCRIPTION

**Position Title**:Radiology SRMO 1 (PGY 3)

**Employment Type**:Full Time
**Classification**: SRMO 1
**Salary**: $99,996 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:The Canberra Hospital and linked accredited training sites within the NSW LAN3 network
**Section**:Medical Services
**Closing Date: 10 December** 2024

**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
- 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 regions. More information can be found on the CHS website.

**To be eligible for this position you must be PGY 3 + by February 2025**
- The Medical Imaging Department of CHS operates 24 hours, seven days a week, offering a wide range of imaging modalities. The service provides state of the art radiology, MRI, PET, interventional radiology, ultrasound and nuclear medicine services for patients in Canberra and the South East Region of NSW. We are committed to providing our patients with cost-effective, easily accessible subspecialty expertise along with a strong commitment to research and training in advancing the use of imaging for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Applications should be from suitably qualified medical graduates eligible for General registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.

**DUTIES**:

- Work as a junior medical officer in the medical imaging department at CHS, under the guidance of senior medical imaging specialists.
- Provide competent and efficient clinical Medical Imaging (MI) management of patients of CHS under the supervision and direction of Consultant Specialist Radiologist’s. Clinical MI management includes acute admissions, in-patient reporting, outpatient reporting, inter-disciplinary consults and interventional procedures.

Maintain a co-operative relationship with multidisciplinary clinical teams.

Work within and support a multidisciplinary team approach.

Assist in progression of training in the specialty including participation in the RANZCR teaching program and activities, timely completion of assessments and involvement in research.

Currency in Basic Life Support Course to be attained within three months of commencement with annual refreshers.

Contribute to clinical audit and participate in changes that improve quality and safety of patient care.

**ABOUT YOU**:
**Behavioural Capabilities**
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team.
- 3. Well-developed ability to prioritise, judge case severity, and when to call for help.
- 4. A friendly respectful attitude to staff and patients.

5. Proficient computer literacy skills, as you will be responsible for completing clinical documentation in the DHR and using other CHS IT systems.
- You will need to understand how the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) indicators align with this role.
- You will need to fulfil the responsibilities of this role as detailed in the CHS Exceptional Care Framework, Clinical Governance Framework, Partnering With Consumers Framework and other related frameworks.

**Position Requirements/Qualifications**:
**Mandatory**:

- Eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Demonstrate commitment to training and continuing professional development including participation in relevant teaching programs, activities, and feedback opportunities, involvement in research, and teaching of junior medical staff and/or medical students.
- Obtain a Compliance Certificate from OMU (Occupational Medicine Unit) relating to assessment, screening & vaccination processes against specified infectious diseases.- Undergo a pre-employment Police check.

**WHAT YOU REQUIRE**:

- These are the key selection criteria, as per the RANZCR Selection into Training Policy (Selection into Specialty Training Policy | RANZCR) for how you will be assessed:

- 1. Academic Performance
- a. Eg. Academic awards, high distinction average throughout medical school, results on HETI physics or anatomy courses.
- 2. Demonstrated commitment to radiology in the ACT
- a. Eg. Physics and anatomy courses, radiology rotations, radiology department work
- 3. Good balance of clinical rotations an