Visiting Medical Officer

**Position Title**: Visiting Medical Officer - Addiction Medicine
**Employment Type**: Fixed Term, one year with the option to extend
**Hours per week**: Zero Hours
**Position Grade**: Visiting Medical Officer
**Salary**:As per the award
**Enterprise Agreement**:Public Hospitals (Visiting Medical Officers Sessional Contracts) Determination 2014
**Department Name**:Alcohol and Drug Service

**About us**:
St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing health services to our community. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, integrity and justice, we promote a culture of diversity and inclusion and empower our people to learn, grow and innovate.

**Benefits of working at St Vincent’s include**:

- Generous salary packaging and Fitness Passport for eligible staff
- Opportunity to access a wide of range of clinical and non-clinical education programs
- Supported post graduate opportunities within applicable fields
- Career development opportunities across the St Vincent’s Health Australia Network
- Employee Assistance Program
- Work/Life balance

**About the role**:
POSITION PURPOSE

The Visiting Medical Officer will provide leave relief and/or backfill of Staff Specialist vacancy within the Alcohol and Drug Service. This may include working in the inpatient, outpatient, consultation liaison and telehealth services as well as the telephony lines (Drug and Alcohol Specialist Advisory Service and the SafeScript NSW Clinical Advice Line). The VMO will take a role as an essential member of the Alcohol and Drug Service multidisciplinary team, providing clinical leadership and promoting patient safety and quality. The position provides specialist clinical care which may be in inpatient, outpatient, and hospital liaison services, as well as through the ADS Telehealth Service.

The Visiting Medical Officer will provide clinical leadership and expertise across a range of substance use disorders including assessment, pharmacotherapy, withdrawal and relapse prevention and referral and liaison with key treatment providers (including GP’s). The staff specialist will work in a multi-disciplinary team to provide care using a range of technologies including telephone and videoconferencing.

**Diversity and Inclusion at St Vincent's**:
**Application Instructions**:
**Selection Criteria**:

- Possess, or be eligible to possess, specialist registration with registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA);
- Possess Fellowship of the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians or other relevant Australasian Specialist College including Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Addiction Psychiatry certificate;
- Demonstrated knowledge, skills and high standards of clinical practice in Addiction Medicine commensurate to experience which is appropriate to the requirements of the position;
- If current Fellowship is with another relevant Specialist College, a commitment to gaining the Fellowship of the Chapter of Addiction Medicine while working with the St Vincents Alcohol and Drug Services
- Demonstrated leadership skills that support and foster innovation to create a learning culture, with proven ability to improve the quality of services and patient care outcomes;
- Demonstrated ability to provide high quality compassionate medical care as evidenced by recent practice experience in working congenially and collaboratively as both a leader and member of a multidisciplinary team, and as a provider of services that engender high levels of patient

satisfaction and experience;
- Demonstrated ongoing contribution to the development, dissemination, and translation of new knowledge and practices commensurate with work in an academic teaching hospital environment;
- Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries

**Applications close on 26/01/2025