Specialistanaesthetist

**Title**:Specialist Anaesthetist**:

- Requisition ID: 2914
- Location: Blackburn, VIC, AU, 3130
- Job Posting Date: 6 Mar 2025

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**Specialist Anaesthetist | Women’s Health/Chronic Pelvic Pain**

The Department of Anaesthesia is looking for Specialist Anaesthetists to fulfill both Fractional Ongoing
- Employment Type - Fractional ongoing sessions| One day a week | Experience work-life balance.
- Location - Blackburn Clinic | Carparking on site | Accessible by public transport& Across Eastern Health if required (i.e. Box Hill, Maroondah, Angliss, Lilydale and Healesville).
- We support you to continuously improve and take pride in your achievements

**Eastern Health**

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services, including maternity, palliative care, mental health, drug and alcohol, residential care, community health and state-wide specialist services to people and communities that are diverse in culture, age, socio-economic status, population and healthcare needs.

**To be successful in this role the following will be required of you**:

- Consistent demonstration of clinical competency.
- To have the input from a pain management specialist or anaesthesiologist with a focus on pain management, contributing to a significant role in managing chronic pelvic pain in women.
- To bring specialized expertise in administering various treatments that target the body's pain pathways, offering relief when conventional methods are insufficient especially in a variety of conditions such as endometriosis, pelvic floor dysfunction, chronic bladder pain, fibroids, interstitial cystitis, and more.
- Ensure adequate documentation, including documentation of perioperative assessments, anaesthesia consultations and interventions, discussions with patients/ relatives and the anaesthetic record.
- Participate in the Women’s Health Clinic and Department of Genecology quality activities program, including audit activities, review of deaths and analysis of relevant clinical and key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Punctuality and reliability in attendance.
- Capacity to work across different hospital sites within Eastern Health.
- Efficient work practices and awareness of the need to optimise patient access to surgical services.
- Appropriate supervision of all junior anaesthetic medical staff at all times.
- Appropriate medical documentation.
- Undertaking of specific tasks under assigned portfolio/s for administrative work, audit, patient safety and clinical guideline development, teaching and research as allocated by the Clinical Director of Anaesthesia (EH) or his / her representative.
- Professional representation of the department and hospital internally within Eastern Health and externally in the broader health system.

**Essential**:

- Must hold current medical registration with AHPRA.
- Must have significant clinical experience and clinical research in Anaesthesia and other related fields.
- Must hold a Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetist, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetist, Australia
- Must be recognised by Medicare as a Specialist in Anaesthesia.
- Must meet the requirements of AHPRA, the RCPA and any other relevant specialist Colleges in continuing professional development program
- Please refer to the attached position description for further details of the role._
- Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role._
- An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 (with appropriate boosters) & Influenza, prior to commencing employment_.

**What we offer**

**Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here**
- Diverse and engaging career opportunities
- Friendly & supportive team
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options
- Career progression in our teaching hospitals

**Next Steps**

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**Good to know**:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
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