Advanced Endoscopy Post Graduate Fellow

**Description**

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

**Position Title**:Advanced Endoscopy Post Graduate Fellow

**Employment Type**: Full Time
**Classification**: Post Graduate Fellow
**Salary**: $218,553 (Plus 11.5% Super)**(17.4% on call allowance as applicable for the role)
**Location**:The Canberra Hospital
**Section**:Gastroenterology & Hepatology
**Closing Date**:28 January 2025

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

- CHS website
- The Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit at Canberra Hospital provides consultative and endoscopic services for persons with digestive diseases, including liver and biliary tract disease.
- The Unit provides:

- Inpatient care of patients with gastroenterological and diseases.
- Consulting service.
- Endoscopic procedures.
- Clinics for patients with viral hepatitis, liver disease, IBD, inherited gastrointestinal cancer and complex gastrointestinal disorders; and
- Clinics, support and follow up for participants in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.

The Luminal Service
- The purpose of this training program is to train accomplished gastroenterologists to perform therapeutic endoscopic procedures. To that end, the major goals are to:

- Develop a detailed understanding of the risks, indications, and contraindications of invasive endoscopic procedures.
- Gain experience in the performance and management of patients undergoing these procedures.
- Perform with supervision, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, endoscopic ultrasound, and ultrasound directed biopsies, endoscopic mucosal resection, luminal stenting and other advanced procedures.
- Develop skills in clinical research associated with these procedures.
- The fourth-year Endoscopy Training Program will provide the fellow with the cognitive and technical skills required to perform EUS and ERCP and related endoscopic procedures at the expert level. The program seeks to train the future leaders of academic endoscopy in Australia as well as internationally.
- The Post Graduate Fellow is expected to:

- Provide service delivery (including outpatient clinics and general endoscopy lists) for 50% of their work time, while the other 50% would comprise of their advanced endoscopy training.
- Lead a weekly Rapid Access Clinic, a General Gastroenterology Clinic and an advanced endoscopy clinic.
- Be proficient in general endoscopy skills and will be expected to perform at least two routine endoscopy lists per week.
- This will ensure that the basic endoscopy skill-set are maintained while the focus is on advanced procedures.
- Undertake significant publishable research during their period of employment in the GEHU. Partake in active research projects and initiate their own projects. Applicants are advised to familiarise themselves with the research interests of the Unit and to make specific enquiries regarding their proposed research. A developed research plan in an area of endoscopy is likely to be highly regarded by the Selection Advisory Committee, and it will be expected that the successful applicant will take up the position with a research plan already developed and that they will publish at least one paper in a peer-reviewed journal during the year and present at a national or international conference.
- Contribute to the Unit’s on-call roster, inpatient care and endoscopy service as well as playing a role in the scientific and quality assurance meetings.
- Play a major part in the multi-disciplinary care of patients, particularly those that are acutely ill.
- Currently there are three dedicated interventional endoscopy faculty who perform approximately 300 EUS and 500 ERCP procedures per year, providing suitable experience to train one advanced fellow. There is an expectation that advanced tissue resection procedures would also be performed starting early to mid 2025.
- This is a one year position intended for an RACP Fellow who has successfully completed their three year Gastroenterology Advanced Training programme and have the Conjoint Committee for the Recognition of Trainin