Staff Specialist

**Position Title**: Staff Specialist - Addiction Medicine - Correctional Health

**Employment Type**:Maximum Term part time up to 31 March 2026 with potential for further extension

**Hours per week**:0.6 FTE

**Position Grade**: Staff Specialist

**Salary**: As per the award

**Enterprise Agreement**: The Named NSW (Non-Declared) Affiliated Health Organisations’ Staff Specialist Agreement 2021

**Department Name**: Correctional Health

**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**:
We have an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic team leading our approach to the provision of quality care to clients of the Correctional Health Department.

**Key Responsibilities include**:

- Provision of specialist care to patients at the Parklea Correction Complex, the outpatient opioid substitution therapy program, the outpatient alcohol and other drug services, and the social detoxification service, including assessment, maintenance treatment, withdrawal and relapse prevention;
- Referral and liaison with key treatment providers (including GP’s) and active participation in a multidisciplinary setting;
- Participation in teaching and research duties;
- Promotion of good patient care and the good reputation of the department.
- Participation in out-of-hours services for Correctional Health Service.
- Provide clinical leadership and support to the Correctional Health service clinicians in the management of their clients’ alcohol and drug health needs;
- Maximise patient participation in decision making and choices in the care planning process;

Maintain positive liaison with families, carers and community providers including General Practitioners, community agencies and non-Government organisations

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

- Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries and St Vincent’s Health Australia.
- Possess, or be eligible to possess, specialist registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Possess Fellowship of the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine (RACP) or equivalent as provided for in the Staff Specialist’s State Award;
- Demonstrated knowledge, skills and high standards of clinical practice in addiction medicine commensurate to experience which is appropriate to the requirements of the position;
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching at specialty registrar, junior medical officer and undergraduate levels;
- Demonstrated management ability in clinical service planning and the provision of a patient focused, comprehensive, high quality and cost effective clinical service with knowledge and commitment to the implementation of best practice and clinical service innovation;
- 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;
**Applications close on 10/07/24